WASHINGTON, D.C. – All those complaints about skimpy school lunches?

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack doesn’t want to hear about them.

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Stories of students being left hungry?

Stop already.

School budgets in the red, sometimes losing 6- and 7-figures?

You’re making that up!

The Kansas City Star reports:

Asked about a University of Vermont study published in August that reported a 56 percent increase in food waste, Vilsack rolled his eyes.

“Seriously, that was (data from) two schools,” he said. “It was two schools. Do you know how many schools there are in the country?”

Vilsack adds the standards promoted by first lady Michelle Obama “are working.”

President Obama’s point man on the lunch rules believes because he was portly growing up, these rules are necessary.

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“I struggled with weight issues all my life and was made fun of, bullied because of it,” Vilsack said. “I know what kids go through when they deal with stuff like that. I know that it takes them off their game relative to learning. Those memories are still very clear in my mind, and I don’t want youngsters to have to handle or go through that kind of thing that I went through.”

But some school districts, despite Vilsack’s tug-at-your-heart personal stories, have had enough.

“I’m looking at numbers. I’m not making this up. We are losing these kids,” Cindy Jones, business management coordinator for food services at Kansas’ Olathe Public Schools says of the 9% drop in participation among her elementary students.

New York’s Broadalbin-Perth Central School District is the latest to drop the federal lunch rules for its high school.

Superintendent Stephen Tomlinson says the school district will forego about $50,000 in federal aid to drop the rules, but that’s less than what they’ve been losing.

During the 2014-15 school year, the high school lunch program lost $68,700 alone.

“We probably would lose a lot more money if we did follow the rules,” Tomlinson tells The Recorder.

Look at Noah Stovich’s lunch from last week:

https://twitter.com/MOSTSPOSTS/status/642384019594866688

A baked potato with processed cheese, potato wedges and a slice of bread. That’s what Vilsack and the federal government deem a healthy lunch? Or is an example of the regulations working?

In his explanation, Vilsack pointed to a Harvard study which supposedly “showed kids now eat 16 percent more vegetables and 23 percent more fruit at lunch.”

That’s pretty easy to see when there’s little else offered.

Or this, which includes a glop of macaroni and cheese, a pretzel stick and a slice of watermelon.

Vilsack is in the middle of a full court press to save Michelle Obama’s failing program. The only thing that stands in his way are Congressional Republicans. But he’s made his intentions clear: he will recommend President Obama veto any changes that will “weaken” the rules.