35- 46 74st Jackson Heights
Queens, NY 11372
24 May 2010
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
Dear Mr. President Obama;
I am writing you because of an issue that has been bothering me ever since I was in high school. Ever since I was in the ninth grade I have become terrified of eating school lunch. Everyday at school during lunchtime I would line up in front of the cafeteria of my school lunch ready to eat this food I use to call “trustworthy”. I did not think there could ever be anything wrong with this food, I mean how could they be anything possibly wrong if it is prepared by people who are certified by the health department to prepare meals for public schools. But I was mistaken when one day I was sitting in the cafeteria ready to eat a pizza along with French fries and a chocolate milk, when I noticed the pizza wasn’t really cooked well it didn’t even have any sauce in it, besides chess and crust. I think that if I had eaten this pizza it would have gotten me sick. And as I opened the milk and began to drink it, it began to taste like it was already experienced. When I went to reach for my French fries they were very hard and cold. After a couple of days of going back to the cafeteria I began to noticed that the same meals were being served over and over again; cold pizza, fries, Chile, and mozzarellas sticks.
School lunches have a lot of fat and cholesterol. According to a nutritionists Kathy strong “ most schools lunch are packed with hot dogs, pepperoni pizza, and beef burritos”. Each of these food products are extremely high on cholesterol and I think is very unfair to be given a child these types of food. By schools serving kids these foods are basically lie they are contributing to the obesity rates and diabetes rates among young children’s. I need your help to try to put a stop to schools serving meals that are not well cooked and foods that may cause children to develop horrible disease later on in life. These foods are getting our children to come home feeling sick with a stomachache or a several headache.
The National School lunch program was created in 1946 according to Beth this program was created to “safeguard the health and well being of American children”. However in the couple of years since its inception this program has began to do less and less to provide healthy meals for kids. Today schools get $1 per every child in order to buy ingredients. But One dollar is not simply enough for cafeteria managers to provide healthy fresh foods for kids if the congress keeps deducting schools budget.
On Dec 13, 2010 you introduced a bill The Healthy- Free Kids Act that would “reauthorize the child nutrition Act”. I see this bill would bring positive results since its policy help schools send messages about healthy eating throughout the school by providing healthier vending machines, and snacks. I thank you for being concerned for your citizens. I have no doubt that you wouldn’t let kids health be in danger.
I would like for you to take a liitle bit closer look to the frozen foods that are giving to kids everyday for high cholesterol, make sure that these lunchrooms are cooking its foods right and not leaving it raw. Today every frozen food products contains “natural flavors or “artificial flavors”. According to Eric Schlosser in “Fast Food Nation”, natural flavor are flavors distills from a natural source while artificial flavor is completely chemicals. “The ingredient helps too explain not only why these foods taste so good but why most fast foods taste the way they do”(120). “But freezing and canning and dehydrating techniques used to process food destroy most of its flavors”(120). This could be dangerous to a child’s health these kids are just eating a bunch of chemicals which are extremely unhealthy for them. Thank you for taking the time to read my letter, it really means a lot to me.
Sincerely,
Mabel Arias
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