http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/26/potatoes-could-be-banned-_n_980950.html?icid=maing-grid7|maing7|dl5|sec1_lnk3|99047
There aren't too many God-given foods that are nearly as perfect as the potato.
You're gonna try to feed cauliflower to school kids @ lunch? Maybe some broccoli?
Puh-LEASE!!!!
PORTLAND, Maine -- Sen. Susan Collins, who hails from Maine's potato country and picked potatoes as a girl, is working to restore some respect for the humble spud, which is on the verge of being virtually banished from the nation's school lunch programs.
New guidelines from the U.S. Department of Agriculture would eliminate potatoes altogether from school breakfasts and drastically reduce the amount of potatoes served in lunches.
Collins, R-Maine, said the unassuming white potato has its place alongside more highfalutin vegetables in school cafeterias. She believes potatoes are healthy, as long as they're not fried.
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The proposal announced by the USDA in January puts focus on fruits, vegetables and whole grains while limiting sodium, banning trans fats and reducing starches.
The guidelines would limit starchy vegetables corn, peas and lima beans, in addition to potatoes to two servings a week. That's about one cup.
Potato growers across the nation claimed the first major nutritional overhaul of students' meals in more than a decade unfairly singled out and stigmatized spuds, which already took their lumps along with pasta and bread and other carbo-loaded foods during the low-carb diet craze a few years ago.
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"They're not going to stop eating potatoes. They'll be eating them at home, and they'll be eating them in restaurants. But I think the school cafeteria should be place where children learn about healthy nutrition, not a copy of a fast-food restaurant," Heber said.
The National Potato Council says the proposal would carry a large but unknown cost to farmers in lost sales, as well as a $6.8 billion cost for school districts that will have to line up more costly foods mandated under the guidelines.
There aren't too many God-given foods that are nearly as perfect as the potato.
You're gonna try to feed cauliflower to school kids @ lunch? Maybe some broccoli?
Puh-LEASE!!!!