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updated 4:10 PM EST 11.22.14
Why students are saying #ThanksMichelleObama
By Emanuella Grinberg, CNN
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(CNN) - Students unhappy with school meals are taking it out on the first lady by sharing images on social media of lunches sarcastically tagged #ThanksMichelleObama.

Some of the images depict formless, mushy blobs on a lunch tray. Others show patties on whole-grain buns accompanied by an apple where one could imagine a pile of tater tots residing in earlier times.

The complaints focus on taste, texture and portion sizes under new nutrition regulations promoted by the first lady. The standards were implemented as part of Obama's "Let's Move!" initiative to reduce childhood obesity. They took effect in 2012 with the goal of including more whole grains, vegetables and fruits in school meals while reducing fat and sodium. But students say the changes make the food unpalatable.


"I could understand how it might seem ungrateful if I got this lunch for free. But I don't," 17-year-old Hunter Whitney told CNN. "I feel like many people would be upset too if the lunch they bought looked [like this]."



Backlash followed from others who said students were wrong to blame Michelle Obama for the quality of school meals.
Instead, they suggested that students direct their grievances at local school districts -- or get their lunches from somewhere else.



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Whitney, who attends Richland Center High School in Wisconsin, said students deserve better options, especially those who can't leave school grounds during the day.
"Because my school has a closed campus, it's either bring your own, buy low-quality food you don't like, or go hungry."

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Boo hoo, my fatass kid is being forced to eat healthy. Also the meals aren't four star because I refuse to vote to invest more money in public education, boo hoo.

Boo hoo, my fatass kid is being forced to eat healthy. Also the meals aren't four star because I refuse to vote to invest more money in public education, boo hoo.

Contard Problems Wrote:
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> Boo hoo, my fatass kid is being forced to eat
> healthy. Also the meals aren't four star because I
> refuse to vote to invest more money in public
> education, boo hoo.

I'm conservative and could give two shits about what these whiners eat at school. Pack your own fucking lunch and bring it to school. School shouldn't be serving any fucking food. Period.

Anybody that thinks a school lunch is what is making their kid fat and lazy is, well, a libturd and stooopid as fuck. Kids get fat because of liberalism. It's a fact.

Anybody that thinks the government should control what you and your family eat is, well, a libfucking tard idiot that hates America.

Public school is for the dumbest of the dumb. The detritus food chain.

Parents that love their children educate them, teach them how to eat, teach them how to grow and hunt food, teach them how to compete and most importantly, teach them to love America. libs have no clue.

libs hate America. Wrote:
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> Anybody that thinks a school lunch is what is
> making their kid fat and lazy is, well, a libturd
> and stooopid as fuck. Kids get fat because of
> liberalism. It's a fact.
I AGREE


> Anybody that thinks the government should control
> what you and your family eat is, well, a
> libfucking tard idiot that hates America.
I AGREE


> Public school is for the dumbest of the dumb. The
> detritus food chain.
I AGREE


> Parents that love their children educate them,
> teach them how to eat, teach them how to grow and
> hunt food, teach them how to compete and most
> importantly, teach them to love America. libs have
> no clue.
I AGREE I AGREE I AGREE I AGREE I AGREE

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English. Please.

watch our fats Wrote:
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> English. Please.

Yeah, turn down for what

watch our fats Wrote:
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> Yeah, turn down for what

Fire up the loud

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