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Noooooooo! Don't touch my honey buns! They ain't never harmed nobody nohow noway never!

It's California's fault for electing a stupid movie star.

Schools took it upon themselves to not allow soda machines on campus. Then they figured out how much money it would cost them.

Banning the sale of "junk" food on School Campuses is a good thing, not a bad one. Is it really necessary that you can go to school and buy McDonalds, Burger King and Pizza Hut on campus?

Schools don't sell healthy food anymore. At least not edible healthy food.

Mmm... good celery!

Schools took it upon themselves to not allow soda machines on campus. Then they figured out how much money it would cost them.

Banning the sale of "junk" food on School Campuses is a good thing, not a bad one. Is it really necessary that you can go to school and buy McDonalds, Burger King and Pizza Hut on campus?
I wish I could get that stuff! All we have is a few soda machines and the holy honey bun machine. If we want Bojangles or Cookout or Burger King we have to go off campus.

That warm California Sun isn't looking so bright these days.

It's California's fault for electing a stupid movie star.

Yea; Actually, this came later than I expected. I expected the stupid legislation to start coming out of his ass the day he got into the office!

Schools took it upon themselves to not allow soda machines on campus. Then they figured out how much money it would cost them.

Banning the sale of "junk" food on School Campuses is a good thing, not a bad one. Is it really necessary that you can go to school and buy McDonalds, Burger King and Pizza Hut on campus?

It's a person's right to choose if they want to eat that. Why should they be deprived of that choice just because some people can't control themselves?

w00t! 700!

I wish I could get that stuff! All we have is a few soda machines and the holy honey bun machine. If we want Bojangles or Cookout or Burger King we have to go off campus.

:shrug: That and more was available at my High school campus. There was also a shopping center just across the street that had more. It was an open campus at that, you could leave and come back during lunch.

The biggest problem is that anything healthy that was remotely good cost more. For a soda it was $.75, for an apple juice it was $1.50. The same thing was pretty much across the board.

Schools took it upon themselves to not allow soda machines on campus. Then they figured out how much money it would cost them.

Banning the sale of "junk" food on School Campuses is a good thing, not a bad one. Is it really necessary that you can go to school and buy McDonalds, Burger King and Pizza Hut on campus?
I am convinced those are all far more healthy than the stuff they distribute at school. Ever seen school pizza? It's like grease served with cheese on the side

And yeah, Minute Maid is hella-spensive

:shrug: That and more was available at my High school campus. There was also a shopping center just across the street that had more. It was an open campus at that, you could leave and come back during lunch.
Lucky. We are allowed to go off for lunch, but my school is in the ghetto so most of the food is fried chicken. But I don't complain, I love fried chicken. But we have no fast food on the campus.

While I'm sure the legislation will turn into a big bearuocratic piece of crap, I think it is a good idea that schools start encouraging better eating habits. Snacks are fine but some of the obscenely unhealthy foods shouldn't be offered as entree of a school provided meal.

Subsidizing the healthier foods to make them cheaper than the crap would be helpful.

I am convinced those are all far more healthy than the stuff they distribute at school. Ever seen school pizza? It's like grease served with cheese on the side

And yeah, Minute Maid is hella-spensive
I find plastic in my school pizza on a regular basis.

Schools took it upon themselves to not allow soda machines on campus. Then they figured out how much money it would cost them.

Banning the sale of "junk" food on School Campuses is a good thing, not a bad one. Is it really necessary that you can go to school and buy McDonalds, Burger King and Pizza Hut on campus?

YOU GET THAT!! you should see what i get, it will make you lose your lunch...wait that is my lunch!

I find plastic in my school pizza on a regular basis.
What has been found at my school
metal bits
lots of hair
a tooth ???
bone bits
Mold
I don't wanna now what i found a week ago.
In all for $4 a meal that can't feed a mouse (they give small amounts) I get to eat very little, thus the vending machines are my best friends, when I h ave money, when i don't then my rich friends are my best friends.

Well, it is school junk food bans...and the government already sets nutrition standards for schools. I don't really see that as all that bad...It's not knocking junk food out of society, just out of school.

The biggest problem is that anything healthy that was remotely good cost more. For a soda it was $.75, for an apple juice it was $1.50. The same thing was pretty much across the board.

$.75?! Pop costs me $1.25 for the 330mL aluminum can version. That's brand name of course. I can imagine $.75 for no-name though.

$.75?! Pop costs me $1.25 for the 330mL aluminum can version. That's brand name of course. I can imagine $.75 for no-name though.
Where do you live? Name brand sodes here are at the most $1 for a name brand, and thats at places with jacked up rates

Thankgoodness they're banning junk like meat pies, sausage rolls and hot dogs! The nation is too fat, we need people to get healthy and if we have to impose on a few to ensure the many don't die so soon then so be it. I mean, MY GOD, they tried to introduce CHIPS into school when I was there. CHIPS for heaven's sake! :( :eek: I mean, what's wrong with a salad and roast beef roll? Or a ham, cheese and tomato toasted sandwich? Or a kebab?

As for strange things found in food:
glass
band aid
metal splinter
hoof

Five words...

From my cold dead hands!

Nah...Most likely he wont be able to follow through with it, especially because of lobbyists.

I remember when I was in highschool, there were maggots in the ketchup once.

I brought my own food though. Cheaper and probably slightly better for me, though I did get sick of peanut butter sandwiches after a while.

To be fair, they aren't banning the foods from being on campus. They're banning them from being sold on campus.

I don't see much wrong with this. I'm not sure how well it complements the spirit of the California constitution, but junk food never did anyone any good unless it happened to be the only thing they had to eat while stranded on a snowy mountain peak. But then they could have had much more effective food then honey buns with them.

I don't eat much junk food anyway.

Banning the sale of "junk" food on School Campuses is a good thing, not a bad one. Is it really necessary that you can go to school and buy McDonalds, Burger King and Pizza Hut on campus?
Oh hell yes. School food is inedible, and one gets really sick of PB&J.

I think that Arnold is on to a good thing with this junk-food ban. I mean, if we do not promote better eating habits among young people, this country is doomed to just keep getting unhealthier.

Oh. And I'm a Californian who just graduated from a public highschool in the state last year.

I wholly support getting the junk food out.

I think banning the sale of junkfood in high schools is just an obviously good idea. There's only so much in terms of variety that a school can afford to supply, and they should make sure that what they do supply is good for the kids.

If they really want junkfood, they can always get it somewhere else, but by actively providing students with junkfood you're sending the message that eating junkfood is perfectly fine. Eating junkfood is bad for you - by definition - and we should be discouraging kids from doing anything that's bad for them. It's not as if there would be much debate if someone didn't stand to make lose money over this, and I think that sending the right message to students is more important than giving money to McDonalds and similar companies.

I'm really confused that anyone thinks this bill could is a bad thing. It's not as if anyone's right to choice is compromised, it's just that the school itself won't be providing the unhealthful alternative.

It's a person's right to choose if they want to eat that. Why should they be deprived of that choice just because some people can't control themselves?

w00t! 700!

Its a school, not a mall.

i've got two opinions on this subject,that are different.

on the one hand, i think its a great idea,getting the kids(although i find that hard to say cause i'm only 21) to eat healthier foods..

on the other hand though i feel it comes back to two words:PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY..i think it comes back to the fact what you decide to eat the junk food or not.,

I think its a great idea to ban the sale of junk food in schools. If you want to eat junk food you can always bring some from home. The school should not be contributing to the massive obesity problem facing the US.

Don't you have free lunch in schools there? School is like the army: it's the government's responsibility that the people in there are fed.

Basically Ahrnold is just trying to solve the problem by banning something, while not actually doing anything productive about it.

The quality of free school lunches can be ensured by central government inspections. Or, maybe not, because America's bureaucracy might be corrupt.

I think he should put Californian's on his body building regimine instead. So basically prescibe steroids to the general population.

Don't you have free lunch in schools there? School is like the army: it's the government's responsibility that the people in there are fed.

Basically Ahrnold is just trying to solve the problem by banning something, while not actually doing anything productive about it.

The quality of free school lunches can be ensured by central government inspections. Or, maybe not, because America's bureaucracy might be corrupt.

Free school lunches? Bah, we won't pay the taxes for that.

Don't you have free lunch in schools there? School is like the army: it's the government's responsibility that the people in there are fed.

Basically Ahrnold is just trying to solve the problem by banning something, while not actually doing anything productive about it.

The quality of free school lunches can be ensured by central government inspections. Or, maybe not, because America's bureaucracy might be corrupt.

Free school lunch a moldy PBJ (i think) that is the size of my comp mouse. Paid lunch slightly less moldy food for ($2-4+)