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I can understand the white House reaction but I also can see why the organization did it.</p>
<p>I think it was a low blow.
First, I have issues with the poster. Are they defining a “healthy school lunch” as one that is vegan or vegetarian. I don’t think small children should be vegans at all.
What if I defined it as pasta and demanded my childs school served pasta every day?</p>
<p>here is the website for the poster:
[Healthy</a> School Lunches / a Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) site](<a href=“http://www.healthyschoollunches.org/]Healthy”>http://www.healthyschoollunches.org/)
It is nothing more than a thinly veiled attempt to convert kids into vegans and vegetarians.</p>
<p>I don’t think they are necessarily trying to convert people into vegans, but they do have a point children who attend more affluent schools have access to healthier school lunches where at your run of the mill public and inner city schools kid’s lunches usually consist of burgers, pizza, french fries, etc.</p>
<p>This same organization also tried to shut down the “Blood and Guts” course (now “Body Quest”) at Virginia’s Governor’s School in 2007: </p>
<p>[PCRM</a> >> Good Medicine Magazine >> Time to End the Blood and Guts Class >> Autumn 2007](<a href=“http://www.pcrm.org/magazine/gm07autumn/blood_guts.html]PCRM”>http://www.pcrm.org/magazine/gm07autumn/blood_guts.html)</p>
<p>I agree with you Glamourdollxoxo.
My idea of a low blow, was an ad by PETA, featuring Giuliana with a milk mustache with the caption" Got prostate cancer" right after he was diagnosed with the disease.
[Mayor</a> Giuliani and PETA’S Got Milk Campaign](<a href=“ONLINE177 - REKOMENDASI AGEN SLOT DAFTAR VIA PULSA RESMI & TERGACOR TAHUN INI”>ONLINE177 - REKOMENDASI AGEN SLOT DAFTAR VIA PULSA RESMI & TERGACOR TAHUN INI)</p>
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<p>Its obvious they are biased (but most organizations are). However I agree with the general idea that healthier meals are needed in schools, regardless of whether they are vegan or not. As a vegan, I could never eat at school, or I was limited to canned green beans. I think vegetarianism/veganism is growing and children deserve the options of having them at lunch, especially if their family can’t afford sending them off with a lunch and rely on the school system.</p>
<p>I also think that children can be vegan and can do very well on a vegan diet, mine will be raised that way.</p>
<p>I don’t really see why the poster specifically targets the Obama girls, I don’t find it necessary.</p>
<p>There were other ways to make a point. Interesting that no one ever mentioned Chelsea Clinton nor the Biden grandchildren, and they all attend(ed) Sidwell Friends School. Considering that the school charges almost $30K for grades 5-12, one would expect them to serve food that excells in all ways. How can public schools, expected to operate on ever-shrinking budgets, be expected to offer options to satisfy special requests, such as Vegan meals? The members of PCRM should get out of their fancy offices and into a inner city school to see the “Real World”- or even into a suburban middle school to check out the trash to see what the kids toss out each day. Then they should spend time trying to find a way to feed those that have nothing at all…</p>
<p>That reminds me of an episode they did on Oprah where they had kids from the suburbs and inner city switch schools for the day and a lot of the kids were shocked at what the students in the other schools were experiencing like at the suburb school they had full computer labs and at the city school they were lucky if they had up to date text books. After the switch the students sat down with school board members and talked about what they think should be done or improved. It was a real eye opener and if these kids were brave enough to venture to another school for an entire day and advise the school board on how to improve things I think the school administrators could to.</p>