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Originally Posted by Thomas2007 I don't have anything against home-eaters, per se, but I don't think those that send their children to public kitchens are doing anything wrong. It just seems that most people that are interested in this are of low education and not really qualified to do nutritious meal planning. And I've heard there are people out there growing rogue food in home gardens and even growing chickens and other animals that aren't tagged in the National Animal Identification System. That, of course, poses health problems to us all and is quite scarey. I'm just really concerned about that and the socialization and the way children won't know how to eat in the real world if this home-eating thing continues like this. That and unregulated eating like this could have drastic health consequences and be a real burden on the Universal Federal Health Care System. I don't see how that can really be administered fairly if people are allowed to just decide for themselves what they are going to eat - at least the system is fair when everyone is eating the same thing and then health problems can be tracked and the expenses are justly distributed, and we know the food has been tracked. I think, at the least, that people that want to do this should be properly trained and licensed having these makeshift "home-kitchens," if that is what they want to call them, inspected regularly. | And besides all that, what are these homecooking parents doing to prepare their children for eating in the real world? They can isolate and pamper them until adulthood, but what happens when junior finds himself in the workplace with all sorts of people, even some who eat bananas with peanut butter or mayonaise on hot dogs? How will they know how to interact with them? And how will this affect their nutrio-socialization? The office cafeteria will be a terrifying place for these deprived diners! |
Good points, and I just thought of something else. Are these homecooking parents going to enforce FDA regulation C-33? I mean HELLO - is anyone listening or does no one care about the welfare of these children or what? At least in the public kitchens there are table monitors that can issue fines if someone doesn't chew each bite 33 times.
I heard of one kooky homecooking family, claiming it was their right to the "free exercise of their religion," that didn't teach their children to start chewing each bite on the right side 16 times and then switch to the left 17 times, per the regulations. They were, in fact - if you can believe it - allowing them to just chew however may times they wanted and swap sides
completely unregulated!
I thought the Supreme Court settled this issue a long time ago in the Separation of Church and State cases? Everybody knows that only fasting on official Federal holidays is guaranteed under the free exercise clause. It's just ridiculous that we have to rehash these long settled Constitutional issues over and over. The whole thing just smacks of being anti-government to me.