Eat you veggies, kids, or Mooch will rip your arms off and beat you senseless with them.
Via Free Beacon:
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) extolled a local elementary school in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. for making its students try broccoli gratin, Tuscan kale, and beet hummus, as an example of the department’s efforts to fight obesity.
Clinton Elementary School held a “taste test” to preview food that will soon appear on the lunch menu, and was highlighted by USDA for its healthy eating efforts.
The Poughkeepsie City school district received a $100,000 grant from the USDA for its “farm to school project,” which it is using to add items such as “butternut squash puree” to school menus. The funding was authorized by the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, which was championed by First Lady Michelle Obama.
Deborah Kane, the national director for the USDA’s Farm to School program, which spends $5 million a year to support school gardens, insists that third graders just need to try kale, chard, and collard greens in order to like them.
“I don’t know how many times I’ve told my children, ‘Go on, give it a try,’ or, ‘Try it, you might like it,’” Kane wrote on the USDA blog. “Tired as those two phrases might be, they’re true. How do you know if you like something if you’ve never tried it?”
“And when it comes to leafy green vegetables and third graders, the truth is, many have never tried things like kale, chard or collard greens,” she said.