Having bullied Walmart into submission, the food police set their sites on a much easier target – our children.
(Washington Times) Smile, Texas schoolchildren. You’re on calorie camera.
That’s the idea behind a $2 million project unveiled Wednesday in the lunchroom of a San Antonio elementary school, where high-tech cameras installed in the cafeteria will begin photographing what foods children pile onto their trays – and later capture what they don’t finish eating.
Digital imaging analysis of the snapshots will then calculate how many calories each student scarfed down. Local health officials said the program, funded by a U.S. Department of Agriculture grant, is the first of its kind in a U.S. school, and will be so precise that the technology can identify a half-eaten pear left on a lunch tray.
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Researchers hope parents will change eating habits at home once they see what their kids are choosing in schools. The data also will be used to study what foods children are likely to choose and how much of it they’re eating.
Five San Antonio elementary schools will take part in the program. Researches selected poor, minority campuses where obesity rates and students at risk for diabetes are higher.
The grant from the USDA will fund the study for four years. Dr. Trevino said the coming school year will be very experimental, with programmers fine-tuning the cameras and imaging software to accurately identify what’s a pear and what’s an apple. He expects the “prototype” to be in place by the second year.
Walmart caves to government bullies – the food police: HERE
LA bans stand-alone fast food restaurants: HERE
Happy Meals and Macy’s Santa Claus banned in San Francisco: HERE
National Alert System set to hack mobile phones: HERE
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Big Bird calls out Michelle Obama on Health Care: HERE
Team Napolitano – surveillance cameras to ‘catch terrorists’: HERE
Obama and Napolitano, ‘Don’t jump to conclusions’ — until we tell you to: HERE
Soda Pot: HERE
Food fight: HERE
The Minute Men are turning in their graves: HERE
Setting things up for that “Respiration Tax” later on -- proof of input. lol.
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