Junk Food Article #1

Summary
In this article, it discusses Obama's intentions for removing junk food completely from school.  He claims that childhood obesity is mostly caused by the schools selling junk and fatty foods in cafeterias and vending machines.  He plans on getting rid of Snickers, Pepsi, and french fries to attempt to ween students away from unhealthy foods.  In addition to eliminating these foods, the new rule will require schools to provide many more nutritious foods.  The cost of this new rule is projected to be about $12 billion.  They believe removing all junk food from the schools will significantly drop the statistics of childhood obesity.

My Opinion
Even if the Obama Administration sets up this ban on schools and spend billions of dollars trying to get junk food out of school, it will just end up being a waste of time.  There will be some students that will always want junky food because that is what they have always eaten, so they would just find a different way to get it into school.  It isn't up to the schools to decide whether or not the students are overweight, it's up to the parents and the students themselves.  Schools use the money to help pay for things such as sports and extracurricular activities.  Without the junk filled vending machines, that money wouldn't just appear somewhere else.  This campaign to get rid of junk food is just a waste of time and money, which the government clearly doesn't have anyway.