COMMENTARY | According to WGHP, a preschooler and her mom ran afoul of the Food Gestapo at her school in Hoke County, N.C. It seems the preschooler's lunch did not meet Food and Drug Administration guidelines for what a healthy meal ought to be.
The meal she brought from home consisted of a turkey and cheese sandwich, a banana, potato chips and apple juice. Nevertheless, the kid was forced to eat what the school cafeteria offered, which oddly enough included chicken nuggets -- and the mom was billed for the cost.
According to the Civitas Institute, this kind of food Nazism is the result of Obama administration guidelines and is widely practiced in American public schools. In other words, the government has decided it knows best what kids should eat. Parents should have no say in the matter.
In a Fox News segment, the lunch the unnamed preschooler brought from home pretty much met FDA guidelines. It had meat, a dairy product, grain and two servings of fruit. In other words, the Food Gestapo at the Hoke Country preschool was not only being officious and intrusive but incompetent as well. In what physical universe are chicken nuggets healthier than a turkey and cheese sandwich?
In a way, the incident illustrates how tyranny begins. It does not begin with mass roundups of dissidents, concentration camps and summary executions. It begins with small, annoying rules like the government guidelines on what kids should and should not eat.
It goes almost without saying this practice has to be stopped. The bureaucrat who rifled over the little preschooler's lunch needs to be identified and shamed. He or she should be fired or forced to resign as well. If it takes legislation to stop government Food Gestapo agents from micromanaging the lunches mothers pack daily for their kids to eat, then Congress and the state legislatures across the nation need to get to work immediately.
Otherwise, if we cede to the government the right to determine what kids eat for lunch, eventually it will dictate what all of us eat for dinner. Then people will have lost control of every aspect of daily life.
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