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re: Should we copy the Japanese school lunch program? (Yes, obviously we should)
Posted on 10/14/25 at 6:46 pm to SeeeeK
Posted on 10/14/25 at 6:46 pm to SeeeeK
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kids need to get out and play, thats what they need.
Sure. And they could also improve what they feed them at school
I don't get the way some of you think at all
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Posted on 10/14/25 at 7:10 pm to Powerman
Look at all the fatties downvoting
Posted on 10/14/25 at 7:11 pm to deltaland
Don’t you know? Diabetes is big business!
Get ‘em started young.
Get ‘em started young.
Posted on 10/14/25 at 7:15 pm to Sizzle_DAWG
Honestly I think that might be one of the pitfalls of America. There are corporations out there that would hate to see a real school lunch program implemented if it hurts their cut.
Posted on 10/14/25 at 7:51 pm to Powerman
Would save us money in the long term.
Posted on 10/14/25 at 8:14 pm to Scruffy
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Japanese children are essentially “trained” to enjoy healthy foods.
Yeah, but it has to be reinforced at home. If they are eating junk food at home they won’t like, and won’t eat, healthy meals. That’s what two parent homes has to do with it. It’s not a guarantee that two parent homes will provide healthy meals, but they are much more likely to, and they are much more likely to start doing so if we educate them.
Posted on 10/14/25 at 8:39 pm to jkylejohnson
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Would save us money in the long term.
If course. And people are saying they won't like the healthy meals as is if it's impossible to make healthy food taste good. So stupid
Posted on 10/15/25 at 4:25 am to TFH
quote:I thought you'd run off, but I see you returned to make more of an idiot of yourself than you already had.
That’s all you’ve got, money?
Upward mobility, something I cited in a number of examples, is the hallmark of exceptionalism. Dating back a century and a half, no country on the planet has consistently produced the entrepreneurial prowess and innovative skills that America has. None come close. You stupidly categorize that as a "money" argument. It isn't. Money is simply a measure of success that American exceptionalism brings.
You simple-mindedly associate "saving Europe" solely with "killing people." The related concepts of innovation, production, societal organization, and the post-war US altruism uniquely responsible for rebuilding Europe and Japan apparently did not occur to you.
I said you're uneducated. It's not a guess, You've made that quite evident in your uninformed posts here. You claim to be conservative. That matter, you have not made evident, at least not in this thread.
Posted on 10/15/25 at 4:48 am to Auburn1968
Yep. The standard American diet is the sugar based diet. Long on dialysis clinics for the foreseeable future.
Posted on 10/15/25 at 5:22 am to Powerman
Dude the students volunteer in setting up and distributing it. Its awesome. This only works in a collectivist society. Wouldnt work here.. were too fricking self centered. Theres also a problem with no cohesive national identity like the japanese have. Japan doesnt have a million sub-cultchas dividing it..
But frick it .. might as well give it a shot. Gotta be better than this dumpster fire
But frick it .. might as well give it a shot. Gotta be better than this dumpster fire
Posted on 10/15/25 at 6:22 am to Powerman
Can we limit this just to our private schools... for obvious reasons.
Posted on 10/15/25 at 6:28 am to EasterEgg
Louisiana ranks near the bottom in all categories in education. What makes you think the kids can figure out how to use chopsticks?
Posted on 10/15/25 at 6:35 am to arseinclarse
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Louisiana ranks near the bottom in all categories in education. What makes you think the kids can figure out how to use chopsticks?
Why would they need to learn how to use chopsticks?
And you don't need to be a math scholar to figure it out
Posted on 10/15/25 at 6:37 am to Espritdescorps
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This only works in a collectivist society. Wouldnt work here.. were too fricking self centered.
Well maybe there are some things that we should be collectivist about. I'd argue that collectivist might not be the right term. But if we took national pride in our health then this is something that could be achievable.
And if we're too stupid to do that then maybe we need to stop calling ourselves the greatest anything. What could possibly be more important than our health?
Posted on 10/15/25 at 6:37 am to EasterEgg
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Can we limit this just to our private schools... for obvious reasons.
Can you explain the obvious reasons....
Posted on 10/15/25 at 6:42 am to Scruffy
For centuries the food was fish and whatever they could grow.
That’s why they were short.
Since the end of WW2 and the occupation, it began to change.
When I graduated High School in Tokyo, the menu was changing. Riot Police are 6 feet tall. Look at Japanese Major League players in the US. Not what the troops were facing in the pacific.
Now there are cattle on other islands and the menu has been expanded.
That’s why they were short.
Since the end of WW2 and the occupation, it began to change.
When I graduated High School in Tokyo, the menu was changing. Riot Police are 6 feet tall. Look at Japanese Major League players in the US. Not what the troops were facing in the pacific.
Now there are cattle on other islands and the menu has been expanded.
Posted on 10/15/25 at 7:00 am to Powerman
Can we also have kids with parents like the Japanese attending our schools? Parents who are active and raising their children so the schools don’t have to. Both father and mother in the household, you know that’s the winning recipe.
Posted on 10/15/25 at 7:04 am to Powerman
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Or we could just keep putting things like Pizza Hut in schools and wonder why we spend so much on healthcare.
Like so many things, it just isn't as simple as you suggest. "Give them healthy food at school! Why didn't we think of this before?". Because American kids will turn their noses up at it, billions will be wasted on food thrown in the trash and parents will bitch the schools aren't feeding their kids.
#Facts
Posted on 10/15/25 at 7:06 am to Ace Midnight
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Like so many things, it just isn't as simple as you suggest
Of course. So if it isn't easy we shouldn't try to do it? Sounds like a loser attitude.
As I said, it could take generations for this to fully materialize in the way we would want it to.
Posted on 10/15/25 at 7:07 am to BayouBaw84
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Can we also have kids with parents like the Japanese attending our schools? Parents who are active and raising their children so the schools don’t have to. Both father and mother in the household, you know that’s the winning recipe.
Of course. And it will take time to change the culture. But the culture can be changed.
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