Amanda Marcotte at Pandagon writes about the red herring of bad parenting in the move to restrict food advertising to kids, while Joanne Jacobs complains about the "nanny state" setting guidelines on what foods schools may serve.
Since it's actually federal guidelines that drive school lunch menus (and often drive them to unhealthy extremes), it's hard to criticize the government for setting limits on what schools can sell to children. (Well, unless you really really dislike the federal government...then, it's easy.)
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