USDA to ban "Junk Food"

Conversely, kids who do eat healthy at home, are currently being sabotaged by greasy, starchy school lunches and snacks.

Other than completely cancelling the whole "school lunch" idea and making all children bring a packed lunch from home, I don't know how to leave both the responsibility and power in the parents' hands.

At least in NJ, they've put a massive amount of limitations on what kinds and quantities of greasy, starchy school lunches could be served years ago. Snacks and the like are the smallest possible sizes, unless they are ensured to be healthy, and to my knowledge almost none of the actual lunches are unhealthy anymore. In my high school, we had four sections of potential lunches, two of which were guaranteed healthy (salads and the like).

I'm not sure that a complete and utter ban is really a smart move, especially when it's already limited to a very high degree. It's just asking for kids who are used to unhealthy foods to bring them in en masse and distribute them to their friends, thus worsening the situation. And you can't really say that can't happen, it happened when I was a kid before these bans and limitations were put in place. The only difference is now that all things that are considered unhealthy are banned, it makes the likelyhood of it getting worse so much higher.