Tom Harkin The Food Nazi Is Regulating Your School's Bake Sale

From the Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil:

In yet another highly partisan vote, the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday passed the bill requiring schools to provide more nutritious school meals and vending machine offerings. The bill now goes to President Obama for his signature...

...Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, was among those who voted for – and spoke favorable of – passage of the bill.

“For too long, we have allowed the unchecked sale of junk food in our schools to undermine not just the health of our kids, but also the desires of parents, and our taxpayer investment in school meals,” Harkin said in a statement.

U.S. Rep. Lee Terry, R-Neb., voted against the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 and issued a statement calling it “another example of the federal government overstepping their authority to force costly and ludicrous mandates on local school districts.”

Among the “ludicrous mandates” that Terry pointed to was a provision that calls for bake sales and concession stands to be subject to nutrition standards. Bake sales and other school-sponsored fundraisers that sell unhealthy foods could be limited under the legislation, which only allows them if they are infrequent.

The new nutrition standards would be written by the Agriculture Department, which would decide which kinds of foods may be sold and what ingredients can be used. The department would also determine how often bake sales and the like could be held.

The nutrition standards will be written by the Agriculture Department, which is currently run by that idiot Tom Vilsack.

Goodbye to chocolate chip cookies.  Hello to organic soy carob bars.

I can't wait to see how those sell.

Isn't that great?  We just continue to elect that lying asshole Tom Harkin to office, and the lameass media never challenges him on anything that he says.  He doesn't even live in Iowa.  Now you're going to have The Toms telling the high school football concession stand what to sell.  Better cook that popcorn in air rather than in oil and don't you dare cover it with real butter!  What will actually happen is that the mandate will trickle down through a series of overpaid administrators who will throw the hammer down on anything that tastes like fun.  We'll end up sneaking in our favorites anyway.

They really want full control over your life, don't they?  Let's ignore that any kid with obesity in childhood probably has it due to the poor eating and exercise habits of parents.  Because of that, the school will be forbidden to sell anything to anybody with the usual things hippies hate:  high fructose corn syrup, bleached flour, or partially hydrogenated vegetable oil, even if some parent made it in their home for a fundraiser.  Instead, we'll have to stop by some weird store staffed by people with sleeve tattoos and pierced lips to buy some overpriced crap meant for righteous commies with Vitamin B12 deficiencies who ride bicycles as their main mode of transportation even during winter.  Sieg Heil to the Food Nazi:  Tom Harkin!  The Brave New World is upon us.  Hail Obama!  Bow down to your Messiah!