LA school district students would rather starve than eat healthy menu items

• Spartaaaaa wrote on 2012-01-24 06:13

  (NaturalNews) A massive school lunch menu overhaul implemented by the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) in California last year has been met with widespread resistance among district students. CBS 2 in Los Angeles reports that many students are actually choosing to go hungry rather than have to eat revamped, healthier meal offerings like vegetarian curry or quinoa salad.
  
  Last summer, LAUSD's school board voted to eliminate unhealthy meal options like corn dogs, processed chicken nuggets, and sugar-laden flavored milk beverages in favor of alternative, healthier meal options that incorporate more whole, unprocessed food items. The decision was inspired by celebrity chef Jamie Oliver's show Food Revolution, which at one time featured an LAUSD school on its show, until the permit was revoked.
  
  Many people initially praised LAUSD's decision to alter its lunch menus as a giant step forward towards improving the health of the district's schoolchildren. But few anticipated that the students would ultimately reject these new offerings en masse, choosing instead to smuggle in unhealthy snacks from home, and even trade things like ramen noodles on newly formed and thriving "black markets."
  
  Reports indicate that many students have been throwing away their entire meals, including their unopened cartons of plain milk product. And those that are unable to snag a high-demand item from the junk food black market to replace those meals were simply not eating, which was leading to widespread malnutrition at many of the district's schools.
  
  Conditions have gotten so bad that the district is now planning to re-implement many of the menu items that it offered previously, but with supposedly healthier ingredients. A healthier type of pizza will be returning to lunchrooms, for instance, as will hamburgers and cheeseburgers. Dishes like brown rice cutlets and quinoa salad, on the other hand, are getting nixed.
  
  No matter what LAUSD serves, it is required to serve a certain amount of it to students, and those students are required to accept that amount, even if they do not want it. This is why so much of the undesired food has ended up in trashcans rather than given to somebody else. But ABC 7 News in Los Angeles recently reported that some students are now volunteering to help give these leftover meals to those in need.
  
  Sources for this article include:
  
  http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2012/01/19/lausd-students-roundly-reject-healthier-school-lunch-menu/
  
  http://www.naturalnews.com/032875_public_schools_lunch_menus.html
  
  http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/los_angeles&id=8498549

  
  
  Source: http://www.naturalnews.com/034731_LA_schools_healthy_menu_children.html
  
  The quinoa salad sounds pretty good though...
• Episkey wrote on 2012-01-24 06:19
  I had to look up what a quinoa salad was. It does look good, but this is a school cafeteria we are talking about.
  Typically, these healthy options simply look unappetizing or are simply inferior compared to other food menu options.
  That may not be the case here though, I'm just speaking from my personal high school experience.
  
  I'm all for eating healthy since my dad cooks healthy food at home, but ... I personally couldn't live without pizza.
  
  The whole riot/resistance made me go: o_O
• Chiyuri wrote on 2012-01-24 06:22
  Meat~~~ need more Meat~~~
• Lan wrote on 2012-01-24 06:22
  Eh, they removed all our pop and candy from the vending machines. Do not want ~_~ and most of us aren't even fat. Only worthwhile things are sausages on bread everyday monday since the fries are...and the pasta is tasteless.
• Osayidan wrote on 2012-01-24 06:40
  Well can't blame them when [S]there's a McDonalds on every street corner[/S]Cafeteria food is known for being so horrible... at my highschool even the pizza was bad.
• Chockeh wrote on 2012-01-24 06:48
  I'm glad that the cafeteria in my highschool was pretty good.
• Chiyuri wrote on 2012-01-24 06:49
  I still remember my high school cafeteria food.. I nearly Always bought the same pizza since everything was not all that much interesting.
  And I was kind of annoyed because they had people with mental difficulities(Heavy mental difficulities) serve us..
• Kollin wrote on 2012-01-24 06:53
  Shouldn't consist only of vegetables and fruit. Meat is necessary to get protein to remain healthy. Still, let the ungrateful little bastards starve and donate the food to a soup kitchen or something else. They don't like the food, they can bring something from home like I do.
• Chockeh wrote on 2012-01-24 08:46

  Quote from Chiyuri;746696:

  
  And I was kind of annoyed because they had people with mental difficulities(Heavy mental difficulities) serve us..

  
  
  ...Us too.
• Joker wrote on 2012-01-24 09:04

  Quote from Spartaaaaa;746632:

  Source: http://www.naturalnews.com/034731_LA_schools_healthy_menu_children.html
  
  The quinoa salad sounds pretty good though...

  
  
  I've made quinoa salad and its really good mmmm lemon juice :3 its fresh good for you and it tastes great :) guarantee'd 3x better for you then any typical salad
• Nithiel wrote on 2012-01-24 09:09
  Good. Someone needed to stand up to these idiots. They should not have the right to tell me what I can and can not eat. If they tried this **** while I was still in school I would have literally just flipped my tray full of food up in the cafeteria worker's face.
• Hiccup wrote on 2012-01-24 09:12
  Pizza a vegetable for everyone :D
• Bride wrote on 2012-01-24 09:16
  with things like vegetarian curry on the menu, I would have definitely brought my own lunch to school instead o_o
  (I actually brought my own lunch in high school because I didn't like the food and had a terrible experience with one of the crappy cafeteria workers, but yeah)
• Jana wrote on 2012-01-24 09:25
  Wow, some people are so picky.
• lightychan wrote on 2012-01-24 10:58
  and waste food like that? how dare they :v