I was going to comment on the same thing... I remember *one* kid in school that was Nut Intolerant, and he told people he couldn't eat nuts... he didn't rely on the Nannyschool Administration to be his enforcer, he took personal responsibility for his condition.

The one that gets me? Gluten. I don't remember *anyone* who was Gluten Intolerant (or lactose intolerant, for that matter) in school... now it seems like most folk claim they *have* to have Gluten-Free whatever because Gluten is so evil awful bad... so they must be allergic to it. Lactose intolerance used to be fairly rare - now the world needs Soy Milk.

My question is this - assuming they are correct... what changed in the human GI tract over the past 50 years that we can't eat what we once did, and where will this end up?

(As Ma Chalmers stands up and does her cheerleader dance for Soybeans...)

Sorry, just a touch. :-)

"If the FDA is doing their job their shouldn't be any unhealthy foods. They are watching out for us." Do I detect a touch of sarcasm here?

Let them not eat cake!

Truly voluntary sharing goes against the tenets of government socialism as it demonstrates people don't need to be forced into it. Furthermore by suppressing the sharing effort you can then apply guilt over not sharing in order to justify mandatory sharing. Finally, if you weren't smart enough to see the need for sharing, you aren't smart enough to decide how much and to whom it should go.

This is part and parcel to purveying government control over such things.

So many things went thru my mind as I read this. If the FDA is doing their job their shouldn't be any unhealthy foods. They are watching out for us. We are spending record amounts of money on education and they NEED these fundraisers??? Isn't there something more important the Feds could be doing?

Ha. Who knows?

There are always a few. And some are super allergic.

I’m old school. I don’t remember anyone having an allergy when I was kid. Allergic to peanut butter? What? Un-American, I tell you.

flip anyone’s switch recently?

Probably true...but I'd rather put a sign that says, "extra sugar added". OR "Now with even MORE chocolate chunks!" Or name them "Ain't Y'obama's cookies"

They should bake their normal, good tasting cookies, and place a label next to them that says:

"Does not contain sugar but does use sucrose as a substitute."

The education bureaucrats won't know common table sugar is sucrose...

I was pointed down? Hmmm wonder who did that...

Yes. Too many tentacles of control slithering in from all directions. They should all be recognized as such and halted.

The sharing thing. I can't tell you how many times I've told small kids that they really can share but the reason everybody goes crazy is some kids have allergies but usually the adults know who they are and the allergic kids know who they are too. Also germs. I would tell them, "if YOU want to share YOUR snack that's your choice. What I don't like is when someone wants what you have and tries to get some of it. What's yours is yours so it's your choice. It's okay to say no."

The patriots would go happily on their way. I agree it is not a calamity by itself, but it is a piece of the much larger calamity to come.

Agreed on the double standard.

I’ll point you back up. My daughter, who was known to be well behaved and a little shy at school, was forced to stand facing the wall at recess when she was seven years old because she dared to offer a cookie to a classmate, a little boy she had crush on during lunch. The school had a no-sharing-of-food policy. I felt so bad for her because it had been my idea in the first place to 'break the ice’. She was so humiliated she cried the rest of the afternoon. So sad. So stupid.

Old story, told often. Google "bake sale busted." Sure, the nannies never stop interfering and the patriots never stop complaining. If the one did not have the other, what would they do ?? This is not a national calamity; it is an ongoing farce.

I never participated in them with my kids. I pay taxes against my will already. But if they're going to ban junk food then cookie sales and candy sales shouldn't slide either. Otherwise it's a double standard. The PTA needs to wake up to gov interference.

I couldn't stand all the "mandatory fundraisers" that my family was required to participate in as part of their school - including bake sales. When our kids were in elementary school, it was almost weekly. Moreover, in each and every year, our kids were required to "volunteer" a certain number of hours.

What?

I won't cry over this decrease in altruism.