#todd staples

[jkanelis]

'Meatless Mondays' far from 'brainwashing'

I used to respect Texas Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples. Now he’s joining the right-wing shouting campaign that’s trying to suggest that a healthier school-lunch menu is somehow an “agenda-driven” campaign meant to deprive children of eating meat.

Media Matters — a liberal watchdog group that delights in torpedoing Fox News’s efforts to slant the news — is at it again.

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[working-class-vegan]

Texas Official Is Freaking Out About School 'Meatless Monday'

Texas Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples denounced school districts that have scaled back on serving meat one day a week, accusing them of succumbing to a "carefully orchestrated campaign" to force Americans to become vegetarians. 

“Restricting children’s meal choice to not include meat is irresponsible and has no place in our schools," Staples wrote. "This activist movement called ‘Meatless Monday’ is a carefully orchestrated campaign that seeks to eliminate meat from Americans’ diets seven days a week -- starting with Mondays.”

John Crowley, head of nutrition services for the school district, told the CBS affiliate. “We’re trying to think outside the box, and we serve a lot of Texas beef on our menus. We’ve had requests for more vegetarian options, and I thought, `Why don’t I give it a try and see how it’s received by kids?”‘

"In no way are kids going deficient in protein by not having actual meat, fish or poultry products served today," Crowley told the station. "We hope that we're meeting the parents' and the kids' needs and serving things that they like and things that are healthy."

Staples, who has received more than $100,000 in campaign contributions from beef producers and ranchers over the past few years, has lashed out against meatless Mondays in the past... Bryan Black, director of communications for the Texas Department of Agriculture, said campaign contributions are unrelated to Staples’ position on meat-eating.

 “He’s focused on this issue because children need the freedom to eat meat,” Black told The Huffington Post.

 By this guy's logic (and the school district's health motivations), would he fight for the rights of children to freely eat chocolate if the school district banned it? Or potato chips? Or whatever other unhealthy thing the school might decide to ban for just one day out of the week?

"Freedom" my ass. 

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[kileyrae]

I think politicians are a lot like socks and they need to be changed on a regular basis.

Well, I was going to say they smell like feet and some other not so nice things, but I feel you, Staples.

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