Are they fat or are they hungry? ::: USDA to oversee school snack food

Bizarre article, unshockingly. It goes mostly like this:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Agriculture Department would be given the power to regulate all food sold in schools -- including vending machine snacks -- when Congress renews child nutrition programs, the chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee said on Tuesday.

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Agriculture Committee work on child nutrition will begin with a draft that gives the USDA the authority to oversee all food in schools, so nutrition programs are not "undermined" by junk food in vending machines, Harkin said at a confirmation hearing for the head of the USDA's nutrition programs.

and like this:

Kevin Concannon, the Obama administration's nominee to run USDA's food and nutrition programs, told Harkin he wants to work with other federal and state agencies to address health issues caused by poor eating habits.

"It's a cultural thing. We've evolved to this over the past 30 or 40 years, and it's going to take efforts on a number of fronts," Concannon said.

Roughly 17 percent of school-age children are obese, triple the rate in 1980 and "an epidemic in the United States," says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Obesity increases the risk of diabetes, heart disease, arthritis and other chronic illnesses.

but ends with this:

The Obama administration, which has a goal of eliminating childhood hunger by 2015, proposed a $1 billion a year increase in child nutrition programs but has provided few details of how it would spend the money.

So again I ask... are they fat or are they hungry?

USDA to oversee school snack food: Senate ag chair | Health | Reuters