It's putting the parents' responsibility on the companies, where it doesn't belong.
Now, I can understand pressuring schools to not have junk food and soda in the cafeteria and halls. I remember bags of chips being part of the options you could get with your lunch even in elementary school (and that's something that I now see as a big problem). Schools meals should be nutritious since the schools are acting "in loco parentis".
I remember the shock of visiting my old HS and seeing Coke machines around (Coke had made a sizeable "donation" to the school). And how many schools and kid organizations (like athletic clubs) have fund-raisers where the kids are selling huge candy bars??
Granted, there is a level of "how far do we go" in regards to that. I for one wouldn't want to try to tell the Girl Scouts that they can't have their cookie sales, but then again, they have introduced lower fat and lower calorie cookies into their product line over the past few years (allowing for that parental choice thing to happen).
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Now, I can understand pressuring schools to not have junk food and soda in the cafeteria and halls. I remember bags of chips being part of the options you could get with your lunch even in elementary school (and that's something that I now see as a big problem). Schools meals should be nutritious since the schools are acting "in loco parentis".
I remember the shock of visiting my old HS and seeing Coke machines around (Coke had made a sizeable "donation" to the school). And how many schools and kid organizations (like athletic clubs) have fund-raisers where the kids are selling huge candy bars??
Granted, there is a level of "how far do we go" in regards to that. I for one wouldn't want to try to tell the Girl Scouts that they can't have their cookie sales, but then again, they have introduced lower fat and lower calorie cookies into their product line over the past few years (allowing for that parental choice thing to happen).