Thankfully, headline is a (mostly) a lie.

Send that unwanted fruit and vegetables to a local food bank and help your neighbors is great, although it's not exactly what is intended by the new requirements.

Now, the high school kids are gonna keep tossing that stuff, but at the elementary level, they have actually increased the amount of fresh fruits and veggies that are being eaten, at least in my school district.

It's going to take a decade or so for this program to see any real change at the national level, although I am sure that someone will say this is absolutely the worst waste of money ever. I mean, why should fruit and vegetable growers see some of that government dollar when there are cows out there needing that sweet, sweet direct subsidy?

Zipay said the school has been serving more fruit, but the students are just tossing it. Custodians were seeing three to four cases of fruit going into the trash every day.

Wait, I thought our childrens weren't getting fruits and veggies because the evil corporatocracy was oppressing them with trans fats and Happy Meals. Now who are we going to blame because our kids throw their veggies in the trash?

Bachmann and her husband?

They should taste awesome by the time they get to India!

you_idiot: They should taste awesome by the time they get to India!

They need to process it into brandy for the journey.

I think you're supposed to call them 'homosexuals' and 'people in a coma'.

Nice!

Ya can dry fruit, ya'know.

You mean the same India that's spending billions on a space program?

She should have taken the OWS route to respond to the foodbeing thrown away: Sit around, do nothing and complain until winter and then claim victory because she got people to "start talking about the issue."

trash is WHERE ALL VEGGIES BELONG. CAUSE WE GOT MULTI VITAMINS

gopher321: Sell it to the army, they'll make MREs out of them.

Trust me, you can't even get soldiers to eat fruits and veggies

/9 years as an army cook.

signaljammer: Ya can dry fruit, ya'know.

mmmm watermelon jerky...

I would think that school districts in Nebraska would be setup with programs that have local farmers pick up scraps to use for feed. Its not doable everywhere, but Nebraska?

Now watch all of the punkasses spitting or wiping boogers on their apples before they toss it into the Donation bin.

/Oh, we ALL know this is gonna happen.

you_idiot: They should taste awesome by the time they get to India!

You mean they'll taste normal for India when they get there.

Gang, if you go to India, do NOT eat at Subway. In fact, it's best if you go full Adrian Monk.

DownDaRiver: I would think that school districts in Nebraska would be setup with programs that have local farmers pick up scraps to use for feed. Its not doable everywhere, but Nebraska?

Yeah, a good size farm is over an hour away.

We also don't grow pigs in Nebraka (in a commercial amount).

Those cows should be happy with Grass.

Food Bank for the Heartland serves Nebraska & Western Iowa. There is a 13.2% food insecurity rate in Douglas County.

You can make a donation to by clicking here$1 provides 3 meals You can also visit the National Office to find your local & make a donation

With all due Respect to the starving kids India, we need to take care children first.

/former employee of Food Bank for the Heartland &
//The Salvation Army which uses Food Bank for the Heartland services

So which parent(s) is going to be the one to explain why his plan failed when the fruit is rotten and full of flies before it even gets off the plane in India? Or are they just going to sugarcoat the matter and let the kid believe a lie?

fanbladesaresharp: So which parent(s) is going to be the one to explain why his plan failed when the fruit is rotten and full of flies before it even gets off the plane in India? Or are they just going to sugarcoat the matter and let the kid believe a lie?

tell little snowflak he is awsome, the world just wasn't ready for his stupid idea

KingVJ: DownDaRiver: I would think that school districts in Nebraska would be setup with programs that have local farmers pick up scraps to use for feed. Its not doable everywhere, but Nebraska?

Yeah, a good size farm is over an hour away.

We also don't grow pigs in Nebraka (in a commercial amount).

Those cows should be happy with Grass.

Food Bank for the Heartland serves Nebraska & Western Iowa. There is a 13.2% food insecurity rate in Douglas County.

You can make a donation to by clicking here$1 provides 3 meals You can also visit the National Office to find your local & make a donation

With all due Respect to the starving kids India, we need to take care children first.

/former employee of Food Bank for the Heartland &
//The Salvation Army which uses Food Bank for the Heartland services

Thats great and all. But do you really want to be collecting days old fruit that's been manhandled (including HS kids) all the way through post consumer, then handleling again to get it passed on again for consumption?
It doesn't take large commercial farms to benifit from picking up scraps. Farmers around here do it and they aren't big commercial farms.

EbolaNYC: You mean the same India that's spending billions on a space program?

Right, because the government spending money on science automatically means nobody is starving.

DownDaRiver: KingVJ: DownDaRiver: I would think that school districts in Nebraska would be setup with programs that have local farmers pick up scraps to use for feed. Its not doable everywhere, but Nebraska?

Yeah, a good size farm is over an hour away.

We also don't grow pigs in Nebraka (in a commercial amount).

Those cows should be happy with Grass.

Food Bank for the Heartland serves Nebraska & Western Iowa. There is a 13.2% food insecurity rate in Douglas County.

You can make a donation to by clicking here$1 provides 3 meals You can also visit the National Office to find your local & make a donation

With all due Respect to the starving kids India, we need to take care children first.

/former employee of Food Bank for the Heartland &
//The Salvation Army which uses Food Bank for the Heartland services

Thats great and all. But do you really want to be collecting days old fruit that's been manhandled (including HS kids) all the way through post consumer, then handleling again to get it passed on again for consumption?
It doesn't take large commercial farms to benifit from picking up scraps. Farmers around here do it and they aren't big commercial farms.

They probably have a landscaping supply company nearby that sells dirt and compost. They'd probably be happy to take that off the school's hands.

So let me get this straight, the current system is:
1) Force kids to take a serving of whatever
2) Kids throw it out

So her brilliant idea is to add:
3) After it's been sitting on someone's tray for an hour and poked at, have them (literally) throw it into a bin where it can be donated

I've got an idea: Remove step 1, purchase sufficient fruit/veggies based on actual student demand, use the saved money on something useful. If they want to donate it to a food bank, great. If they want to use it to afford a better quality of education or pay their staff slightly better, there's that too!

The entire journey of "force something on someone who doesn't want it, then give them the option to give it back, and then give it to someone who does want it" is farking dumb.

Are these fruits actual bananas and apples or are they prepackaged diced peaches and pears in sugar water?
If they are the latter, I can understand why they throw them away.

Two weeks.

meat0918: DownDaRiver: KingVJ: DownDaRiver: I would think that school districts in Nebraska would be setup with programs that have local farmers pick up scraps to use for feed. Its not doable everywhere, but Nebraska?

Yeah, a good size farm is over an hour away.

We also don't grow pigs in Nebraka (in a commercial amount).

Those cows should be happy with Grass.

Food Bank for the Heartland serves Nebraska & Western Iowa. There is a 13.2% food insecurity rate in Douglas County.

You can make a donation to by clicking here$1 provides 3 meals You can also visit the National Office to find your local & make a donation

With all due Respect to the starving kids India, we need to take care children first.

/former employee of Food Bank for the Heartland &
//The Salvation Army which uses Food Bank for the Heartland services

Thats great and all. But do you really want to be collecting days old fruit that's been manhandled (including HS kids) all the way through post consumer, then handleling again to get it passed on again for consumption?
It doesn't take large commercial farms to benifit from picking up scraps. Farmers around here do it and they aren't big commercial farms.

They probably have a landscaping supply company nearby that sells dirt and compost. They'd probably be happy to take that off the school's hands.

Yes, I forgot about them. Organic farmers want that stuff also.
Its Nebraska, doesn't Nebraska get cold in the winter? Can't they turn it into biofuel for heat?

Came for Dead Kennedy's, leaving dissapoint

brantgoose: I thought of that years ago when I was a kid.

THEM: There are starving children in India who would be happy to have what we're eating.

ME: There are starving children right here at this table who would be happy to mail it to them and eat a bowl of cereal for dinner, if you'd pay the postage.

I did that once, too. Dad kicked my ass.

DownDaRiver:
Thats great and all. But do you really want to be collecting days old fruit that's been manhandled (including HS kids) all the way through post consumer, then handleling again to get it passed on again for consumption?
It doesn't take large commercial farms to benifit from picking up scraps. Farmers around here do it and they aren't big commercial farms.

The food in grocery store is days old, that has been manhandled by HS kids, & possibly high school drop out. That's just from the truck to the display.

But to answer you question, YES!

If I'm hunger & I can rinse/wash this fruit off. I don't care who touched it.

KingVJ: DownDaRiver:
Thats great and all. But do you really want to be collecting days old fruit that's been manhandled (including HS kids) all the way through post consumer, then handleling again to get it passed on again for consumption?
It doesn't take large commercial farms to benifit from picking up scraps. Farmers around here do it and they aren't big commercial farms.

The food in grocery store is days old, that has been manhandled by HS kids, & possibly high school drop out. That's just from the truck to the display.

But to answer you question, YES!

If I'm hunger & I can rinse/wash this fruit off. I don't care who touched it.

But we aren't talking about a person. Or from a grocery that gets it from a direct source and must supply a guality product that will sell above what they pay.
We are talking about schools, public schools, inner-city Omaha public schools. I don't think the quality is top notch to begin with. Edible yes, but.......
Hey, I'm not saying it can't be done if done properly. So have at it.

DownDaRiver: KingVJ: DownDaRiver:
Thats great and all. But do you really want to be collecting days old fruit that's been manhandled (including HS kids) all the way through post consumer, then handleling again to get it passed on again for consumption?
It doesn't take large commercial farms to benifit from picking up scraps. Farmers around here do it and they aren't big commercial farms.

The food in grocery store is days old, that has been manhandled by HS kids, & possibly high school drop out. That's just from the truck to the display.

But to answer you question, YES!

If I'm hunger & I can rinse/wash this fruit off. I don't care who touched it.

But we aren't talking about a person. Or from a grocery that gets it from a direct source and must supply a guality product that will sell above what they pay.
We are talking about schools, public schools, inner-city Omaha public schools. I don't think the quality is top notch to begin with. Edible yes, but.......
Hey, I'm not saying it can't be done if done properly. So have at it.

Yeah, about that inner-city part. Westside isn't inner city, it's on the other side of 72nd & south of Dodge.

That's the good part of Omaha. only 1 or 2 violent crimes a week.

Read the damn article subby before making shiat up.

Whatthefark: Are these fruits actual bananas and apples or are they prepackaged diced peaches and pears in sugar water?
If they are the latter, I can understand why they throw them away.

TBH I bet they'd be more likely to eat them if they were packaged in sugar water.

KingVJ: DownDaRiver: KingVJ: DownDaRiver:
Thats great and all. But do you really want to be collecting days old fruit that's been manhandled (including HS kids) all the way through post consumer, then handleling again to get it passed on again for consumption?
It doesn't take large commercial farms to benifit from picking up scraps. Farmers around here do it and they aren't big commercial farms.

The food in grocery store is days old, that has been manhandled by HS kids, & possibly high school drop out. That's just from the truck to the display.

But to answer you question, YES!

If I'm hunger & I can rinse/wash this fruit off. I don't care who touched it.

But we aren't talking about a person. Or from a grocery that gets it from a direct source and must supply a guality product that will sell above what they pay.
We are talking about schools, public schools, inner-city Omaha public schools. I don't think the quality is top notch to begin with. Edible yes, but.......
Hey, I'm not saying it can't be done if done properly. So have at it.

Yeah, about that inner-city part. Westside isn't inner city, it's on the other side of 72nd & south of Dodge.

That's the good part of Omaha. only 1 or 2 violent crimes a week.

Well, I don't live there. Spent two weeks there once for training at ConAgra.
Some OK parts. But mostly its an urban shiat hole. Had to travel way outside to get to suburbs that where nice and decent.

I can hardly blame the kids... who would want those nasty Washington apples or hard-fleshed oranges anyway? I pass those up when I dumpster dive. It's criminal that Big Ag lobbies have carved out this niche market of federally-funded low-quality fruit. Or it's a failing of do-gooder liberal policy, take your pick.

In any case dumping crappy food in schools is probably not the best use of federal funds toward the goal of getting kids to eat well. Not that that's anybody's actual goal in this whole process, just the mantra they hide behind. Of course it's a tricky business given that most children (like most adults) don't eat what's best for them when given a choice, just what tastes good.

/centrist enough for you, Fark?

DownDaRiver: KingVJ: DownDaRiver: KingVJ: DownDaRiver:
Thats great and all. But do you really want to be collecting days old fruit that's been manhandled (including HS kids) all the way through post consumer, then handleling again to get it passed on again for consumption?
It doesn't take large commercial farms to benifit from picking up scraps. Farmers around here do it and they aren't big commercial farms.

The food in grocery store is days old, that has been manhandled by HS kids, & possibly high school drop out. That's just from the truck to the display.

But to answer you question, YES!

If I'm hunger & I can rinse/wash this fruit off. I don't care who touched it.

But we aren't talking about a person. Or from a grocery that gets it from a direct source and must supply a guality product that will sell above what they pay.
We are talking about schools, public schools, inner-city Omaha public schools. I don't think the quality is top notch to begin with. Edible yes, but.......
Hey, I'm not saying it can't be done if done properly. So have at it.

Yeah, about that inner-city part. Westside isn't inner city, it's on the other side of 72nd & south of Dodge.

That's the good part of Omaha. only 1 or 2 violent crimes a week.

Well, I don't live there. Spent two weeks there once for training at ConAgra.
Some OK parts. But mostly its an urban shiat hole. Had to travel way outside to get to suburbs that where nice and decent.

okay, I don't forgive you.

Omaha is the best towne going. I moved here, fell in love with it. NOT hedging my bets, but I'd bet I would get married here.

DownDaRiver: I would think that school districts in Nebraska would be setup with programs that have local farmers pick up scraps to use for feed. Its not doable everywhere, but Nebraska?

We have foodnets here we feed the people first.

Should be everywhere">Link

DownDaRiver: I would think that school districts in Nebraska would be setup with programs that have local farmers pick up scraps to use for feed. Its not doable everywhere, but Nebraska?

We have foodnets here we feed the people first.

Should be everywhere!

attention span of a retarded fruit fly: DownDaRiver: I would think that school districts in Nebraska would be setup with programs that have local farmers pick up scraps to use for feed. Its not doable everywhere, but Nebraska?

We have foodnets here we feed the people first.

Should be everywhere!

I donate a lot of produce (we organized a local gleaning group). Good to know I have a CYA in the Emerson Act.

Reminds me of where I went to HS. You didn't dump your own tray - one of the cooks stood by the trash can, took your tray, chewed your butt and any salvageable items went back to the kitchen for re-issue or to add to a recipe. This was a poor county school and they did not waste anything.