On Jun 12, 12:22*pm, Orlando Enrique Fiol > wrote:
> wrote:
> >I think that's a hellafa lot of burden to place on already over worked
> >school districts. Although I have fond memories of cooked from scratch
> >lunchroom food. We might have pooh-poohed it, but i think for the most
> >part it was acceptable by most. *It wasn't all that long ago (a couple
> >of generations?) that people were assumed to feed themselves and their
> >kids (or not as the case may be) and schools weren't all in the food
> >business.

My son's school grows vegetables. Next year they are planning on
incorporating both their produce and other locally grown produce into
their school lunches:
http://www.mrhsd.org/gardens/elementary_home.html
>
> If such radical notions as parental licensing, much more comprehensive sex
> education or even compulsory sterilization in some cases were
> not deemed so socially odious, we'd have a good chance of fostering
> greater parental responsibility.
> But, as it is, the bottom line is that too many people have
> procreating without the capacity to care for their offspring, and many social
> sectors are having to step in an fill in the gaps.

Human population will be limited. The question is, by what? Death
from disease? Starvation? Wars and other mass killings? Compared to
those, compulsory sterilization and indeed eugenics looks pretty good.
>
> Orlando

--Bryan