Blog Post 4

              "Why Kids Hate School Lunch" Response

                   Lunches aren't what they used to be. But what did they use to be? I never got to experience this for myself but my older cousin went to Kennedy and during her years, the cafeteria served Pizza Hut pizza on special days, along with Subway and some select others. Unfortunately the price got expensive and unhealthy so they stopped that in 2012. That's what the article in the New York Times reports as a problem with childhood obesity relating to school lunch. I agree that obesity is a problem, but the "healthy" food served nowadays does not seem like food at all. 

                    The mindsets of the people of America and France are different as well. Whereas America is calorie-conscious, the French see what they want to eat and they eat it. They have the lowest obesity rate in the Western world, so how does that add up? Americans over-eat and that leads to obesity and an obsession over calorie consumption. What I don't understand is how Americans care so much about the number of calories, but still have some of the highest obesity records in the world.

                    The article likes to discuss France quite a lot, focusing on how their food is made from scratch and is cheaper and better in most ways. Schools in France pay $7 per meal at the wealthiest, but no reports were given on the lowest paid for meals. More information is needed to create a more solid argument, but the highest provides that America can do the same because of wealthy families. I agree with that. But the problem is not with the article per say, but with the education system. I have a problem with the way that American schools are "solving" the problem of obesity by using low-fat, flavorless, and even gross processed foods in their lunch plans. There must be a better way. Also, children aren't eating the "healthy" foods because it's not what they're used to. New York Times reports that children learn eating habits from their parents, and if the food is different from what they're getting at home, it's probably why the children are not eating the food provided by the school system. Forcing kids to eat something they don't what doesn't really work, does it?