As WGHP reported last week, hundreds of students at Farmington High School in Farmington, Conn., used Facebook to organize a school lunch boycott, claiming that lunches were raw or undercooked and contained the occasional hair. (Oh, and mold too, it looks like.)
Farmington students calling for school lunch boycott starting today. http://t.co/QuYkIJBTKd via @_JessicaMoore_ pic.twitter.com/z6wZzncqGI
— Jim Welch (@CTnewshound) November 3, 2014
Since then, students around the country have been organizing their own boycotts. The target of the Farmington boycott was the school’s contracted food service provider, but others have named school lunch czar Michelle Obama and her healthy serving sizes as the inspiration for their boycotts. In either case, high school students are taking action on their own.
Boycott school lunches next week. Bring a lunch from home. Saw it on the news this morning. Spread the word
— Joe Dirt (@Heil_j62) November 4, 2014
D.C. Everest HS student org. school lunch boycott Nov. 13th, protesting Obama lunch act. http://t.co/vTQ8yEoypT @michellemalkin @twitchyteam
— αиgeℓιqυe (@angeliquerene) November 12, 2014
Bob Dohr of the Wausau Daily Herard writes that D.C. Everest Senior High School student Meghan Hellrood and some friends “came up with Pack a Bag DCE, a push for kids to bring their own lunches on Thursday to send a message that they are unhappy with the new-look lunch.”
“We just figured (a boycott) would be the simplest way of doing it,” she said. “We love our faculty and our staff members and our lunch ladies, it’s just the [Healthy Hunger-Free Kids] act itself. We just want to show Washington and the act that we don’t agree with it.”
Hellrood took her story to “Fox and Friends” (video available on the Fox News site), where she said that “athletes are not performing as well as they could, and people’s test scores are going down because they’re hungry throughout the day.”
This young woman has a future in politics. http://t.co/Zcnn0RgP0L
— Sara Scheely Johnson (@sarajohnsauce) November 12, 2014
A year ago I tweeted this pic saying "I'd like to see Michelle Obama eat this" & today it was featured on Fox News!?? pic.twitter.com/jvQtLaZWeX
— Molly Kate Kestner (@mollykkestner) November 13, 2014
https://twitter.com/Cameron_Gray/status/532620852744187905
True enough, and it’s going national.
https://twitter.com/joe_acqua/status/531620632816287744
To everyone participating in the school lunch food boycott I will be bringing in a petition for all of you to sign to show how you all feel
— p@ (@patrickkkkk_) November 10, 2014
EVERYBODY BRING LUNCH TO SCHOOL TODAY LETS MAKE THIS BOYCOTT MEAN SOMETHING
— j dilla stan (@ScavoneJames) November 10, 2014
Hey just so everyone knows tomarrow is national boycott goverment lunch day. So pack a lunch and dont get school food.
— Kevin without toilet paper (@_Koski_) November 13, 2014
‼️DON'T FORGET TO BRING YOUR OWN LUNCH TOMORROW‼️ #lunchboycott
— Lexi Derrick (@lexiderrick15) November 13, 2014
https://twitter.com/taylor_tots11/status/532736013551276032
This lunch boycott thing is real. Soooo if you don't bring a lunch???
— paris patricia-rae (@paris_franc67) November 13, 2014
Yeppers kids need more then crackers and celery for lunch they are still growning http://t.co/N7bEXdWPNV
— Deirdre (@freyjaandodin) November 13, 2014
https://twitter.com/AlanCralan/status/532864613499408384
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