Michelle O. Lunch Spawns Black Market for Salt and Pepper

We’ve seen it happen with alcohol and cigarettes, and we’ve seen it happen with drugs, guns, and prostitution. Any time the government restricts or overly taxes a vice, it doesn’t go away, it just goes underground. Now those same market forces are stifling the government’s attempts to help our kids eat “healthy” meals.

Michelle Obama’s lunch regimen is apparently so atrocious, that it has created a black market for condiments in some of America’s schools. During a recent House Subcommittee hearing, an Indiana school administrator told Congress that some of his students are selling these foods to their classmates, to help them make their food more palatable. “Perhaps the most colorful example in my district is that students have been caught bringing–and even selling–salt, pepper, and sugar in school to add taste to perceived bland and tasteless cafeteria food.”

In fact, Michelle Obama’s lunch may be pushing some of these kids into other unhealthy foods. “Students are avoiding cafeteria food…More students bring their lunch, and a few parents even ‘check out’ their child from campus, taking them to a local fast-food restaurant or home for lunch.” At the end of the day, it’s not the school’s responsibility, nor is it within their ability, to convince their students to eat healthy food. It should be abundantly clear now that this is the responsibility of the kids and their parents, which is exactly how it should be.