Congress wants your kids to be fat and diabetic.

NPR shared a story yesterday highlighting Congress’s work to rewrite the healthier school lunch standards that the Obama administration’s Ag Department recommended earlier this year.

Lobbyists win again.

Someone should start a brown bag lunch program that bypasses the schools. Parents qualifying for free and reduced school lunch should be able to redirect the allocated funds to a community-based non-profit that could bag lunches for kids and deliver them to the schools.

Just ramblings.

Nonetheless, it’s an abomination that healthy food for kids has to be reduced to the fragmentation of lobbyist political agendas.

Read the full article at NPR