Remember when Michelle Obama tried to get America healthy or whatever? It was a whole thing. There are even still some grainy, dusty videos of that whole episode on YouTube, featuring the First Lady exercising with Jimmy Fallon.
Of course, the media were all in on it. Here, for example, is a representative headline from NPR at the time:
First Lady Fights To Keep Healthful School Lunch Law Intact
Ah yes, Michelle Obama was "fighting" to keep a "healthful" school lunch rule in place! Like the Spartans of old, she was standing against a horde of powerful enemies, outnumbered but still full of gumption.
But gee, what a difference a decade makes! Because now there's a new push to make school lunches even healthier, and NPR isn't, well, entirely thrilled about it:
From the article:
[In] January, the Trump administration overhauled the national dietary guidelines. Announced by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., they follow the Make America Healthy Again blueprint, urging Americans to avoid highly processed foods and prioritize 'high-quality, nutrient-dense' protein at every meal. Those guidelines form the basis of federal nutrition standards that schools participating in federal meal programs must follow.
Yet many districts rely on processed, premade foods to feed their students, and protein is already the most expensive ingredient on the cafeteria plate, school nutrition experts say.
Folks, I kid you not: NPR is so anti-Trump that it's actively trying to promote processed junk food and carbohydrates for U.S. school lunches.
You can't deny it. It is patently obvious that if a Democrat were attempting to impose these new standards on schools, the coverage would be less "How are schools going to afford this!" and more "Here are the ways schools can afford this."
Indeed, the Obama health movement was so universally celebrated that you had shills like Jimmy Fallon doing "comedy" bits about it. Yet we haven't seen Fallon touting the pretty reasonable proposals from the White House to, you know, get nasty junk food off of the public SNAP rolls.
Meanwhile, NPR can't even offer any glimmer of hope regarding the latest school lunch directives. Here's how it covers the idea of replacing highly processed frozen chicken nuggets with freshly prepared chicken strips:
Fleishman said districts that want to cook chicken strips from scratch could make them fresh using six or seven ingredients. 'But it's hard, because you go from buying a chicken nugget, which is totally contained,' to having to consider the financial, labor and waste implications of cooking it from scratch, she said.
News flash: Yes, eating healthier does require a little more work! This is not exactly news!
I guess we'll have to wait for a Democrat to be in office again for the media to re-discover its love of healthy food!
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