Is not as common in France as it is here.
France Bans Ketchup in Schools: Smart Move or So Silly?
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2011/10/06 18:44:10
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Looks like France has done it again. First, French feminists wanted to get rid of the word "mademoiselle" and now the country is banning ketchup in school cafeterias. Ketchup! Do they even realize how delicious that tomato-flavored sauce is? Just what do they think they're going to dip their French fries in?!
OK. Sorry. We had to get that out of our system.
But seriously, in order to promote healthy eating, the French government has recently banned ketchup from school cafeterias -- that includes college -- nationwide. Though you can't put the tomato-based condiment on your cafeteria beef or veal any longer, one thing the government has made an exception for is -- surprise, surprise -- French fries. We wonder how the heck they're going to regulate that.
Jacques Hazan, who is the president of the Federation of School Pupils' and College Students' Parents Councils, calls the new rule a "victory." And others believe that the country has set a great example. "France must be an example to the world in the quality of its food, starting with its children," Bruno Le Maire, the agriculture and food minister in the country, said.
In addition to the ketchup ban, the new rules demand school officials to cut down on fatty foods and use more vegetables, fruit and dairy in their everyday meals.
Do you think France's ketchup ban is a good idea? Should America start implementing something similar?
OK. Sorry. We had to get that out of our system.
But seriously, in order to promote healthy eating, the French government has recently banned ketchup from school cafeterias -- that includes college -- nationwide. Though you can't put the tomato-based condiment on your cafeteria beef or veal any longer, one thing the government has made an exception for is -- surprise, surprise -- French fries. We wonder how the heck they're going to regulate that.
Jacques Hazan, who is the president of the Federation of School Pupils' and College Students' Parents Councils, calls the new rule a "victory." And others believe that the country has set a great example. "France must be an example to the world in the quality of its food, starting with its children," Bruno Le Maire, the agriculture and food minister in the country, said.
In addition to the ketchup ban, the new rules demand school officials to cut down on fatty foods and use more vegetables, fruit and dairy in their everyday meals.
Do you think France's ketchup ban is a good idea? Should America start implementing something similar?
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Merna 2011/10/07 02:02:47Smart move
+26My school serves Mexican, Pizza, and hamburgers. Every rare now and then there's a salad option, for a side we get to choose between disgusting looking apple sauce or french fries, and we can have all the sugary drinks we want (infinite refills) There is no way in hell this country is in place to judge France, because after all, THIS:
Is not as common in France as it is here.
Wait until socialist ObamaCare fully kicks in and you are on the governments dole. They'll tell you what to eat, how much to walk, and when you're to old to be considered financially viable they'll tell you when to die.
Also, we are not talking about classic liberalism and conservatism. Modern liberalism is statism and Marxism. That happened when the socialist/progressive movement of the late 1800's/early 1900s hijacked the term liberalism to hide behind. The modern conservative movement is in fact small government Libertarianism, or classic liberalism.
Yes, the modern liberals idea of freedom is to allow you to kill your babies, smoke pot, and buy hookers (such wonderful things that you are proud of), as long as you don't say anything that they deem as politically incorrect or say or do against their statist political agenda and rule, because then they will destroy you. That's your idea of freedom. Sad. Very sad.
So you go get high, bang a hooker and kill your girlfriend's baby when you knock her up (and give her an STD from your hooker). I'll concentrate on individual freedom and the freedom of thought, speech, ideas, religion, privacy and all those silly things you modern liberals hate.
“But it is upon the law that socialism itself relies. Socialists desire to practice legal plunder, not illegal plunder. Socialists, like all other monopolists, desire to make the law their own weapon. And when once the law is on the side of socialism, how can it be used against socialism? For when plunder is abetted by the law, it does not fear your courts, your gendarmes, and your prisons. Rather, it may call upon them for help.” Frederick Bastiat from The Law.
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Maybe your fat burger will not be as tasty without ketchup...
Can anyone say: Big Brother is watching?
Can anyone honestly say that, socialism creates personal happiness?
Can anyone say that "soon, this won't come to the USA"?
Once that takes place, irresponsibility becomes that norm and accountability is no longer necessary when breaking the law unless you don't fall into a certain criteria of social norm.
These were some of the same historic events that took shape in Rome, shortly before Rome fell. Or at the very least "eerily similar".
But, over reaching government is one government that we can do without.