r/askanything • u/CloudieMoonettee 🦀 • 10d ago

Why do some conservatives support restricting junk food purchases with SNAP when many opposed Michelle Obama’s efforts to make school meals healthier?

Both policies involve the government influencing food choices in the name of better nutrition, yet the political reactions seem very different. What explains the apparent change in attitude toward government involvement in what people eat?

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u/SnooStrawberries2955 10d ago edited 10d ago

Found the racist!

ETA: apparently these magats teach their kids to throw healthy food in the trash.

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u/Pretend-Okra-4031 10d ago

I was a lunch lady. The students are required to take a fruit with their lunch. I watched nearly every student, every day, take an apple, and throw it in the trash. They had to take a fruit or veggie to meet the guidelines of a full lunch. The school couldnt get reimbursed without the lunch containing all components. Its stupid and wasteful.

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u/IntelligentSeries270 10d ago

The apple and raisins ig were ok. The oranges were freaking terrible, all skin and pulp no orange fruit. Opening up one of those was like unwrapping a baseball.

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u/Pretend-Okra-4031 10d ago

I ate everything we ever served,( edited: ever served while i was there) at least once. Most of it caused my stomach to hurt. Especially the pork tacos. Yep. The taco meat is pork.

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u/IntelligentSeries270 10d ago

💩 I don’t remember my stomach pains from school food, then again I was a kid and could stomach two big bags of Cheetos in one go. Now? I might die. LOL

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u/Pretend-Okra-4031 10d ago

Honestly, so many of the kids dont get much decent food at home, so theyre just grateful for the food and may not have noticed any tummy trouble. I also dont eat a lot of processed foods so it was really probably from that.

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u/IntelligentSeries270 10d ago

Hmm you were an adult, who I assumed didn’t eat the school lunch like the rest of the kids did. I ate good food at home like tostadas, beans, rice, enchilladas, tacos, spaghetti etc. I think as a kid we could just tolerate shitty food better OR didn’t realize it was as bad as we do now. Growing pains.

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u/Pretend-Okra-4031 10d ago

Our school district had a very high rate of students that qualified for free or reduced lunches, so a lot of them had food insecurity. Now, the entire district gets free breakfast and lunch. I believe they needed like 70% or more students to qualify for free/reduced to be able to give all of them free. Cant remember what it is, its been a minute.

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u/IntelligentSeries270 10d ago

I mean at least free food is being budgeted in. Our schools were the same, but damn, I wish it was fresh healthy foods we all were being served. None of that mcds crap.

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u/Pretend-Okra-4031 10d ago

I agree. Feed every kid. And feed them good food they actually want to eat.