( - promoted by Jill Richardson)
This has really taken a silly turn. According to a story in today's New York Times No Brownies at Bake Sales, but Doritos May Be O.K.
Nine months after effectively banning most fund-raising food sales in city schools, a city panel will vote Wednesday on an amended regulation that will allow student groups to sell items like Pop-Tarts and Doritos during the school day, but not brownies, zucchini bread or anything else homemade.
The new regulation is meant as a compromise between the city's concerns about childhood obesity- which they cite as the reason for the restrictions - and the fund-raising needs of student and parent groups, some of which are struggling amid difficult economic times, especially after losing one of their most lucrative sources of revenue.
It is pretty hard to come up with a better example of just plain wrong thinking than this. Bloomberg and company doesn't want any baking in bake sales because they don't know what is in home cooked brownies.
No homemade or unpackaged items are on the list of "approved" foods because "it's impossible to know what the content is, or what the portion size is," said Kathleen Grimm, the deputy chancellor for infrastructure and portfolio planning, who oversees the regulation.
But because Doritos are approved for sales in city vending machines and because the City Politicians know what is in those that's O.K. What does Kathleen Grimm have to say about this rule that will include parents and teachers bake sales?
"We think that we have struck a pretty good balance here, a healthy balance." |
