Lake County considers 'trash-cams' at school cafeterias

[WhatMeWorry]

I mean what prevents parents from packing it themselves? No, wait…nobody is taking any right away here - actually, nothing prevents parents from preparing their kids’ lunches themselves.

Wanna bet?

theblaze.com/stories/n-c-food-inspector-sends-girls-lunch-home-after-determining-its-not-healthy-enough/

nccivitas.org/2012/state-inspectors-searching-childrens-lunch-boxes-this-isnt-china-is-it/

articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-04-11/news/ct-met-school-lunch-restrictions-041120110410_1_lunch-food-provider-public-school

 

[markomalley]

I don’t believe that the principle of subsidiarity is absolute. It can only be applicable when the least common denominator is both capable and willing to provide what would otherwise have to be provided by the Federal government. Instead we should be focussing on why the quality of ‘school food’ is so poor and what can be done to change that. For one thing, I don’t think the school can justify paying x number of dollars into football while its feeding the students half-rotten produce.

That is the misnomer.

First, subsidiarity is always applicable as a principle. Always.

Second, if subsidiarity is not applicable when a party is not willing, is concerning ourselves with the common good only applicable when all concerned are willing? How about the preferential option for the poor? Only when all are willing?

If one principle of doctrine is only applicable based upon the consent of the people, how about the rest of the doctrine of the Church?

 

[IneedGod]

Just a memory…
School lunches used to be not only healthy but tastey too!
That was in days gone by before Govenment stepped in and started serving so many free lunches that were often cold and just plain awful
Dont get me wrong there are some who truely need the free lunch but (IMHO) it got out of hand and so expensive a GOOD lunch became a thing of the past

 

[EmperorNapoleon]

That is the misnomer. First, subsidiarity is always applicable as a principle. Always.

I don’t agree. I don’t believe that the Church would argue that the Federal government should sit idly by and watch people suffer when the least common denominator is incapable of or unwilling to alleviate that suffering.

 

[markomalley]

I don’t agree. I don’t believe that the Church would argue that the Federal government should sit idly by and watch people suffer when the least common denominator is incapable of or unwilling to alleviate that suffering.

It’s a longer discussion that what would be appropriate here, as the subject spans multiple encyclicals from multiple popes.

The Compendium does, actually, give a role for the State in providing assistance to the needy…but only in the exceptional case. For example, providing food and shelter to those dislocated by a major hurricane. Or, for that matter, providing assistance when the markets absolutely collapsed. But it stresses the short term nature of such assistance.

The trouble with a “school lunch program” ruled or administered by the federal government is that it is intended to be permanent. The same applies to any of these social asistance programs that are out there. That is where it becomes problematic.

You can read the appropriate section of the Compendium here. And I highly encourage reviewing JPII Centesimus Annus 48 here. There are many, many other references, including BXVI’s Caritas in Veritate.

The big trick that most people fall into, without looking at those two keys above, is that when they see “society” they read “the government.” There is a fundamental difference in the two words.

 

[Kouyate42]

Just a memory…
School lunches used to be not only healthy but tastey too!
That was in days gone by before Govenment stepped in and started serving so many free lunches that were often cold and just plain awful
Dont get me wrong there are some who truely need the free lunch but (IMHO) it got out of hand and so expensive a GOOD lunch became a thing of the past

Ditto for problems with free school meals over here in the UK too, where some schools are having to deal with huge amounts of free school dinners being provided, sometimes 60-70% of the school population, with a Gov.-set budget which is FAR below the cost of a good meal (it’s something like 14p a head in some areas). Result is cheap, often tinned or processed, awful-tasting meals which are not fit for purpose.

One famous British chef, Jamie Oliver, went into one school and everything in the school kitchen’s fridges was frozen or processed. There was not a scrap of fresh fruit or vegetables in the place, and many staff didn’t seem to know how to even prepare meals from scratch on a large scale.