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Schwarzenegger urges that soda and junk food be banned from public schools
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...DGT7AQRRK1.DTL
EDITORIAL Banning junk food Tuesday, January 18, 2005 GOV. ARNOLD Schwarzenegger and the California Legislature should be able to agree on at least one thing: getting rid of junk food in the schools. Schwarzenegger last week criticized the Legislature for sending him a bill last year that he vetoed because it didn't go far enough. In a meeting with The Chronicle editorial board, he said the bill would have required schools to label junk foods, instead of eliminating them altogether. He implied the bill wasn't tougher because legislators were afraid to take on a food industry that promotes unhealthy products. "If you want to get rid of junk food, just pass a law that says you are not going to have any junk food in the schools ... because it is destroying our kids," he said. Such a law should tell schools "you are going to have to sell vegetables and fresh milk and water, no more Coca-Cola." Schwarzenegger seems to be ahead of the Legislature on this issue. In 2003, for example, the Legislature approved a bill eliminating sugar-laden sodas from school vending machines -- but only from elementary and middle schools, not high schools, where most unhealthy drinks are peddled. Schwarzenegger said when he was head of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports 15 years ago, he found that almost every school he visited had vending machines filled with sodas and candy, or sold unhealthy foods such as doughnuts. He said attempts to eliminate these products would elicit protests from school officials who "will scream 'We're getting money from Coca-Cola for our sports programs.' " They should be told, he said, to "find the money somewhere else." Schwarzenegger's advocacy of a comprehensive ban on junk food in schools should give a boost to lawmakers such as Sens. Gloria Romero, D-Los Angeles, and Martha Escutia, D-Whittier, who have encountered industry resistance to even the most modest proposals to regulate food in school. The governor and legislators should work together in crafting legislation that will put California at the forefront of promoting healthier eating habits, beginning in our schools. Page B - 6 |
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Instead, in NYC, they have a mayor who made a contract with Snapple, a
sugar-water distributor. I like the gubernator's way, better. |
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