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<blockquote data-quote="RidgeHunter" data-source="post: 1915234" data-attributes="member: 4319"><p>When I was in school kids with low household incomes got lunch for $0.35 and kids above the income line got it for $1.65 (IIRC). It was all junk. I always brought my lunch so I'm not sure what all of it was - but it was all fried and breaded. Nobody had anything on their plate but fried cheese, fried chicken, fried fish, etc. </p><p></p><p>Yeah, don't get me on a soapbox. We've let things like this get so out of hand that it's too late to do damage control. Once something is a societal norm it's hard to introduce change. Your contraception example? Yeah, we wouldn't need to worry about morning-after pills if we started sex education on-time and not after kids are already boning, or <em>had it at all</em> (none at my school, but lots-o-babies by 10th grade). See teen pregnancy and STD rates in The Netherlands and then look at their sex-ed programs and their attitudes towards sex and tell me we're doing it right. U.S. - the first world country that lets our wounds hemorrhage till we get light-headed then pulls out the bandaids and pats ourselves on the backs. We're just about in time to solve the obesity epidemic. As you can see people welcome the change.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RidgeHunter, post: 1915234, member: 4319"] When I was in school kids with low household incomes got lunch for $0.35 and kids above the income line got it for $1.65 (IIRC). It was all junk. I always brought my lunch so I'm not sure what all of it was - but it was all fried and breaded. Nobody had anything on their plate but fried cheese, fried chicken, fried fish, etc. Yeah, don't get me on a soapbox. We've let things like this get so out of hand that it's too late to do damage control. Once something is a societal norm it's hard to introduce change. Your contraception example? Yeah, we wouldn't need to worry about morning-after pills if we started sex education on-time and not after kids are already boning, or [I]had it at all[/I] (none at my school, but lots-o-babies by 10th grade). See teen pregnancy and STD rates in The Netherlands and then look at their sex-ed programs and their attitudes towards sex and tell me we're doing it right. U.S. - the first world country that lets our wounds hemorrhage till we get light-headed then pulls out the bandaids and pats ourselves on the backs. We're just about in time to solve the obesity epidemic. As you can see people welcome the change. [/QUOTE]
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