{"id":92321,"date":"2013-11-19T04:38:09","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T03:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karendecoster.com\/?p=21001"},"modified":"2013-11-19T04:38:09","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T03:38:09","slug":"the-government-and-balanced-meals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/the-government-and-balanced-meals\/","title":{"rendered":"The Government and \u201cBalanced\u201d Meals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The lunch-and-grains nazis are not only a nuisance in the US &#8211; it seems they have a foothold in Canada as well. A mom sent her child to\u00a0Manitoba Government&#8217;s Early Learning and Child Care with an &#8220;unbalanced&#8221; meal consisting of meat, vegetables, fruit, and dairy, and that earned her a $10 fine and a stern warning from the jackasses who declare that all children&#8217;s lunches should accord to Canada&#8217;s standards for nutrition policy. Additionally, the child&#8217;s meal was supplemented with the industrial food, Ritz Crackers, in order to supply the child with her shot of <del>sugar<\/del> grains. Hat tip to the several people who FYI&#8217;d me with this story.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/karendecoster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/lunch-menu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-21003 aligncenter\" alt=\"lunch menu\" src=\"http:\/\/karendecoster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/lunch-menu.jpg\" width=\"267\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lunch-and-grains nazis are not only a nuisance in the US &ndash; it seems they have a foothold in Canada as well. A mom sent her child to&nbsp;Manitoba Government&rsquo;s Early Learning and Child Care with an &ldquo;unbalanced&rdquo; meal consisting of meat, vegetables, fruit, and dairy, and that earned her a $10 fine and a stern [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1226,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-92321","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-editorials"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}