Gee, it sure is nice to know that absolutely nothing else is going on in the world:

A billion-dollar battle over selling sports drinks and “enhanced” water in public schools has spilled into Congress and threatens to derail a major attempt to cut back the sale of junk food from school vending machines and snack bars.

In an attempt to limit the sale of high-calorie sodas, candy bars and other snacks in schools, Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) has introduced a bill that would have the government set new nutritional standards for the foods and drinks that schools sell to students outside cafeterias. But just what those standards should be is the issue.

Public health advocates want the standards to ban the sale of Gatorade and Powerade, which typically contain as much as two-thirds the sugar of sodas and more sodium, as well as sweetened waters such as VitaminWater and SoBe Life Water. Excessive sodium intake by young people could fuel a surge in high blood pressure, which until recently was considered a health threat only in later life, they said.

So, let me get this straight: you have government take over education, gradually assume responsibilities as part of that power derived from thin air that were previously the domain of parents, offload to a captive audience excess production (thanks to agriculture “policy”) while pretending it’s a gesture of concern for the poor, & in the process of blaming the failure of the State on a false stinginess on the part of the public invite corporate sponsors to slap logos on anything possible, and the response to the inevitable is to bitch about replacing Boneheaded Central Control Rule A with Boneheaded Central Control Rule B?

The trade group representing Coca-Cola, Pepsi and other bottlers, whose annual sales of sports drinks reached $7.5 billion last year, counters that sports drinks and sweetened waters are lower in calories, “appropriate” for high school students and “essential” to young athletes. In 2006, sports drinks were the third fastest growing beverage category in the United States, after energy drinks, such as Red Bull, and bottled water, according to the trade journal Beverage Digest.

Under current law, meals served in school cafeterias must meet some standards, but snack bars, school stores and vending machines may sell anything that contains at least trace amounts of protein, vitamins and minerals. The result: Many students make a meal out of a bag of chips, a sports drink and a chocolate bar. (emphasis mine)

Well damn, when you psychologically neuter the adults, then what exactly do you expect the kids to do?
As should be obvious by now, the real issue isn’t the rules.  It’s who is making them in the first place.