By Selwyn Duke

Unprecedented school-lunch regulations have just gone into effect,
and they suggest a new answer to the question “Where’s the beef?”: not
on students’ plates— or on their bones. The regulations are a result of
Michelle Obama’s “Healthy and Hunger Free Kids Act,” which was passed by
the lame-duck, Democrat-controlled Congress in December 2010. And the
result has been wasted food, endangered health, and hungrier kids.

The problem is that, in typical nanny-state style, the regulations
not only prescribe foods many children find unpalatable, they also apply
unrealistic calorie restrictions on students: “650 calories for
elementary-schoolers, 700 for middle-schoolers and 850 for
high-schoolers,” writes Suzanne Tobias of the Wichita Eagle.

Yet more perspective is gained when you consider that the
government’s dietary limitations wouldn’t be out of place in a wartime
prison camp. For example, writes
PJ Media, “Current regulations limit servings of protein, which could
be anything from a hamburger to a side of beans, to 1.5 ounces two days a
week and 2 ounces the other three days.”

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