Memphis Elementary School Going Organic for Student Lunches

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Bad eating habits are out at and eating healthy is in at Memphis City Schools.

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LadyJ68 - 9/9/2012 5:25 AM

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Myers, You still hold the title with your post. Children will eat what is available to them. Eduacate yourself a little. Look-up info on the mud cookies the children eat in Haiti and in the Dominican Republic. What am I saying? An I now actually being stupid assuming you care about any of it? This is NOT a political issue and no one should make it such. Our children need to be served healthier food. And as Penny pointed out the organic food is safer. The recent articles were somewhat misleading with their emblazoned titles. The only discovery was that orgaic foods do not necessarily have more nutients than non-organic foods. However, the remaining issue is the pesticide residues. If it can kill a bug, it can probably harm a human. Eat enough of it and it will. So organic is still better unless you're eating thick skinned fruits and veggies.

onemanvolt - 9/8/2012 7:49 PM

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Finally and end to the insanity of junk food in school lunches. You are right Penny, kids will eat what is there in the absence of junk food. It's the parents who seem to never learn. It is likely such parents themselves are products of schools with junk food lunches. And god forbid First Lady Michelle Obama's attempts to educate ignorant Republicans on their bad eating habits. She should have known that wasn't possible.

PennyPendleton - 9/8/2012 7:27 PM

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Kids will eat what is there. We did. If they don't eat the food, they will soon discover that they are excessively hungry each day before school is out. It won't last long. The human body has a remarkable way of making one appreciate whatever food is available. End of problem. It's the fat slob parents who scoff at the prospect of having only healthy foods available. Some of these kids parents never learned how to eat properly themselves, much less pass on healthy eating habits to their kids. It is therefore left up to our schools to alter a kid's bad eating habits inherited from incompetent, foolish parents.

Snakeeyz - 9/8/2012 6:19 PM

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Lady: the STUPID part is that you are dumb enough to believe these kids will eat this.

PennyPendleton - 9/8/2012 2:58 PM

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It's about time! I remember how delicious the lunches were in Memphis City Schools when I was coming up. We could smell the homemade bread cooking about 10am and by 11, we were ready to eat! All the food was prepared from scratch in the cafeterias back then. It is good to see that good food is back after so many years of chicken nuggets, tacos, and pizza taking the place of good healthy food in Memphis schools. And as far as organic foods are concerned, the recent article stated that there were no difference in nutrition content, however, organic options live up to their billing of lowering exposure to pesticide residue and antibiotic-resistant bacteria. I guess some people didn't bother reading the article before commenting on it.

missy22 - 9/8/2012 10:46 AM

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So have they been receiving inferior food until now? They don't pay extra for "organic", do they? Just this week a report came out saying there is little or no difference. If people are going to have "our" children, they should be prepared to pay for their food AND education. Anything else is child abuse.

LadyJ68 - 9/8/2012 4:12 AM

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Myers, that is a stupid post. I do not like Michele Obama's politics, but you are allowing your own bias to cloud your logic. We are going to be supplying many of thes echildren with food and medical care regardless. With obesity, diabetes, astham and other health related probelms on the rise in our children, I am pleased that these children will be fed a healthier meal if it must be on my dime. If they are hungry, they will eat the food and hopefully acquire a taste to it. I did after altering my diet after mnay years. I also think it is great that these childrne are participating in the process of providing meals. Their participation mans they are not receiving complete handouts. Good job for once city schools.