Michelle Obama Let's Move

School lunches have changed in a big way over the years. Before Michelle Obama started her Let’s Move! campaign against child obesity, in 2010, schools were feeding children excessive amounts of sugar, salt, and other unhealthy ingredients due to very small guide lines of what students can and cannot consume in their everyday school made lunch. Lunch ladies all over the United States dish out more than thirty million lunches that were all were payed for by taxpayers. Children nearly ate away half of their daily calorie intake at school. That is when government workers and non government workers decided it was time to make a change. That is where Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! campaign took over and started to try and change the way children eat in hopes of a healthier lifestyle. After a while of her My Plate …show more content…
But to pass the bill, the White House needed to enlist not only Democrats and Republicans in Congress but also a host of overlapping and competing interest groups like the manufacturers who supplied food to schools, the nutritionists who wanted it to be more healthy and the lunch ladies who would have to get children to eat it. Collaboration Partners are comprised of federal agencies/organizations which carry out federal food, nutrition, or health programs. The Federal Collaboration Partners have three main rolls to play in this issue and those are to Promote nutrition content in the context of the ‘Dietary Guidelines for Americans, Collaborate to create resources or disseminate the ‘DGFA’, and meet as needed for communication coordination. Tax payers are the ones who help pay for the My Plate program and the government is who enforces the program in schools. The two groups competing for power are the people and the government. Government wants kids to be more healthy and the people are divided some agree with the government and others are more concerned about children being full and ready to function in