20 Comments

• Gracie1 | Mar 11, 2011, 02:08 PM EST

  Why the devil does anybody pay attention to anything Sarah Palin says? The woman is certifiable and definitely not worthy of the attention or concern of anyone with half a brain cell in their head. The only reason she says these stupid things is because there are media people who will actually repeat what she says as if it were an intelligent or considered thought. Shme on all of them and all those who give her reason to think she is anything more than an attention seeking twit.

• LinLinisme | Mar 02, 2011, 08:27 PM EST

  JAMI is all wrong. He should keep out of it . Sarah Palin is right and she said what I would say.

• McNabb1966 | Mar 02, 2011, 09:11 AM EST

  @maireadinmelb...Well, first of all the quote was "civil rights" not "human rights." And we're not talking about feeding the poor. We're talking about a celebrity chef's mindless attack on Sarah Palin and the silly comment he made during the attack.

• maireadinmelb | Mar 02, 2011, 04:26 AM EST

  A young child can only eat the meals provided to it! The same child will only learn of healthy eating if someone teaches that child, so many parents the world over either cannot, do not or can't be bothered to teach or provide such food! So yes nutrition is a human right!!!

• McNabb1966 | Mar 01, 2011, 10:57 PM EST

  When he makes idiotic, childish statements like "getting kids to eat healthy is a civil rights issue," Jamie Oliver makes a fool of himself and a mockery of genuine civil rights issues. Apparently being a celebrity chef doesn't require deep comprehension or self control. Stay in the kitchen where you belong, Jamie. It's better for all concerned when you don't waste everybody's time by talking about things you don't understand.

• ShamrockMiss | Mar 01, 2011, 09:51 PM EST

  I think Jamie got it all wrong. Sarah Palin is more of a frosted flake than a fruit loop.

• PolinDeB | Mar 01, 2011, 08:22 PM EST

  The best way I've seen this put. You have removed Humans right to forge and just take food they need, so therefore they need to be compensated. Feed the Children, it's cheaper in the end.. of course you also want them to die rather than pay their hospital bills.. and strangely most of these people seem to call themselves christian's... When Jesus said - Suffer little children to come onto me .. he'd didn't mean starve them all..

• PolinDeB | Mar 01, 2011, 08:19 PM EST

  @LizFlady So you would see a child starve? What a lovely person you are. Needed more like you around when the Famine hit Ireland.. ah yes, the English.. if they can't afford to feed their children we should let them starve. Free Market economy at its best...Famine was seen as a good free market final solution to those who choose to remain poor.

• Bubbastudd | Mar 01, 2011, 07:45 PM EST

  Oliver could have left out the "loop" part to describe himself. Instead of cawing and screeching about Sarah Palin, he should get off his duff and exercise. Then he would be fit, like Sarah.

• LizFlady | Mar 01, 2011, 07:20 PM EST

  I'm sorry, I am sick and tired of paying for other people's children to have free breakfast, lunch and now they are considering giving them dinner. This is bull. If we go the "healthy" route that is being suggested our taxes will go sky high. Home is where the child should learn their eating habits not school. If you don't like what is being served at school, fine, pack your child's lunch.

• maloney | Mar 01, 2011, 06:39 PM EST

  oliver the idiot, civil rights issue?? Stay the h*ll out of my business & my pockets.

• jmchrystal | Mar 01, 2011, 04:44 PM EST

  To all you misguided folks that think Obama stands for socialism. Wake-up, we are and have been a socialism society for a long time. We all pay the cost for those who eat crap and drive-up our health care costs and it is about time the free ride with health care costs stop. If you don't pay your share of your own health care why should the rest of us foot your bills?

• jmchrystal | Mar 01, 2011, 04:09 PM EST

  The saying that "You are what you eat" has been around for a long time. However, most parents these days, have given-up the right to decide what is healthy to eat to the commercial interests on TV, This lack of common sense about food choices costs all Americans billions of dollars in heath care costs! It is about time someone did something!

• ustreetdc | Mar 01, 2011, 02:34 PM EST

  This is directed at "BigGuns"... What exactly does "The USA will be the new China" mean? Do you even know what you mean? Please explain to us how the school meal program is like China. I'm assuming you're equating this to Socialism, but, how exactly does it relate? And I don't mean using vague terms like "big government" and "civil liberties". I'm interested to know facts and statistics about the similarities between the USA and China about funding for free school meals.

• irishcara | Mar 01, 2011, 12:56 PM EST

  You cannot blame childhood obesity on the one meal a day that students are fed in school. How about parents takes responsiblity? They're the ones feeding kids fast food and plopping them in front of tv's and computers so they don't have to interact with them. Feed them healthy at home and make them go outside and get some exercise and quit blaming school food service.

• ChiChione | Mar 01, 2011, 12:05 PM EST

  I agree with Jamie on this. If we continue to feed our children junk food in school instead of a healthy, nutritious lunch we are looking at a future where most of the population will be obese. Our kids are already on the road to obesity. Obese children and people are costing taxpayers enough already on health care costs. What happens when these kids grow up obese??? They have health problems, that is what happens!!! Since many of them and their parents do not have health insurance, you and I pay for them to get treated for diabetes along with a number of other illnesses associated with being obese. Sarah Palin could give a rats a.. about our children. All Sarah cares about is Sarah and how much publicity and money she can get from the suckers who pay to hear her talk! There are so many ignorant comments on this that it is mind-boggling!

• BigGuns | Mar 01, 2011, 10:05 AM EST

  It's in reality a civil liberties issue. Next, they will dictate what we eat at home. Then, they will try to control what we watch and what we read, and finally how many children we should have. The USA will be the new China.

• DLW12183 | Mar 01, 2011, 09:49 AM EST

  Eating right is a civil rights issue!! God help this country!! Anybody going to a fast food resturant is a racist? This leftist publication is getting on my last nerve.

• chesapeake | Mar 01, 2011, 09:41 AM EST

  Eating healthy is a civil rights issue? Methinks she qualifies as a true fruit loop (my apologies to the cereal). Does that put bowel movements under control of Obama? At the risk of sounding racist, we already provide significant support of the lower 50% of our non-tax paying citizen (supplemented by several million illegal aliens), why can't some of them at least cover one meal a day?

• MotherIrish | Mar 01, 2011, 09:32 AM EST

  It seems that everything is now a civil right! Sarah Palin is right and to boot, the Obama's are turning the USA - the land of the free and the brave in to the land of the woosies and the Nanny state. It is time parents took control, time the gov't keeps it nose out of what we eat. My mom was a single mom back in the 50's. The gov't never made sure I ate a lunch, my mom did! And she made sure we ate a healthy lunch even if it was meger. We are rapidly becoming a country in which everyone stands with their hand out waiting for someone else to pay or make decisions for them. Now I am on SS and it was up to me to save all those working years and I did. Where is our backbone any more? Are we a spineless nation? If so then we deserve what we have any more. Obama and spouse -- stay out of our personal lives!!!