Apparently, many teens are quite displeased with school lunches under the standards mandated by the Healthy and Hunger-Free Kids Act, which was championed by Michelle Obama. In fact, some students such as Caitlin Tagner, North Carolinian sophomore, are simply throwing away their lunches. Tagner clearly and directly blames the First Lady for these unappealing lunches. "But it turns out that the lunches, specifically the bad ones, aren't her fault--Congress and the Department of Agriculture approved the standards, and some school cafeterias aren't adapting as well as others."
This is the most vacuous and presumptuous case of "Thanks, Obama" that I've ever heard of. Tagner said that "starving kids at school isn't exactly a way to [get] kids' obesity down." Neither is throwing away your lunches. Truly, this is absurd. It's a childish reaction to a reasonable--and frankly, needed--change. This averseness to healthier food, a reaction made manifest in the waste of meals and thoughtless dismissal of healthy choices, is an example of how used to "hyper-palatable foods (junk food)" America's children have gotten. Child nutrition advocate Ann Cooper noted that many students, "would like, instead of having fruits and vegetables... they'd like to have four pieces of pizza." Cooper also said that some lunches are "not enough food for most high school kids, but that's because they didn't choose to take the rest of the food."
These perturbed students, to be blunt, are being stubborn and unwise, both in their wasteful rejection of new food choices and their direction of the "blame" (because, as we all know, to give children nutritious foods is a high crime).
Article: http://www.thewire.com/politics/2014/05/teens-blame-michelle-obama-for-their-nasty-tater-tot-free-lunches/361296/
It is not directly Michelle's fault here. That'd be on the public school district, the ones who are cutting down on lunches. I've seen some of the pictures from the new lunches, and well, they've become a lot smaller. Again, that's the fault of the district. They care more about spending money on other stuff like sports instead of properly nourishing their students.
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