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Gov’t Issues New Visual to Tell You How to Eat — And It Only Cost $2 Million

The Agriculture Department has issued a new food guide aimed at making healthier food choices easier. While that may be all well and good, the surgeon general admits the change is connected to Michelle Obama‘s obesity crusade that’s already seen social engineering-like changes in school lunch programs.

The new guide is called “My Plate” — a simple circle divided into quadrants that contain fruits, vegetables, protein and grains. It will replace USDA’s food pyramid, which has been around in various forms since 1992. The new guide even comes with an accompanying website:

Govt Issues New Visual to Tell You How to Eat And It Only Cost $2 Million

According to the surgeon general, that change is connected to Michelle Obama. And according to the secretary of agriculture, it has roots in believing that people just couldn’t figure out the old one. Forbes reports:

“We’re working to make healthy choices easy choices,” said Surgeon General Regina Benjamin at this morning’s unveiling, who linked the new diagram to First Lady Obama’s Let’s Move campaign. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack followed by explaining the need for the tool, “My Pyramid was simply too complex,” he said, and is confident the new tool will be effective is a “simple visual research based icon about proportion sizes and what should be on the American plate.”

That opened up a door to some lampooning by Gawker:

America’s top doctor, Surgeon General Regina Benjamin, confirms that this new “plate” is connected to Michelle Obama’s larger plot to stop fat people from being so fat all the time. According to Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack, the fatties were too fat to interpret a pyramid, which was really just a garden-variety 2D triangle.

The AP interprets it with less snark:

USDA officials say the pyramid was tired out, overly complex and tried to communicate too many different nutrition facts at once. The new symbol, unveiled Thursday at the department with first lady Michelle Obama in attendance, is simple and gives diners an idea of what should be on their plates when they sit down at the dinner table.

One change viewers will notice is that there are no longer any references to sugars, fats or oils, and what was once a category called “meat and beans” is now simply “proteins.” Next to the plate is a blue circle for dairy, which could be a glass of milk or a food such as cheese or yogurt.

The plate is base on recently-released nutrition guidelines. In addition to telling people to drastically reduce salt and continue limiting saturated fats, the most recent set of guidelines asked diners to enjoy food but balance calories by eating less and taking smaller portions. It also suggested making half of your plate fruits and vegetables, a message easily translated on the dinner plate.

But while those behind the new icon are excited, critics are jumping on the large price tag behind the project. From Forbes:

According to the New York Times, the U.S.D.A. has already spent $2 million developing and promoting the plate logo, costs that covered research, focus groups and the creation of a new Web site. That total will likely swell after publicity efforts are kicked off in the first year of the new  campaign announced this morning by First Lady Obama, who promised that her Let’s Move initiative would continue to work to promote MyPlate in coming months.

Still, Michelle Obama couldn’t be happier.

“Since seeing the plate icon, I can’t help but look at my own plate differently,” she said. “I find myself doing a quick checklist to know that I have a balanced meal. I know that in the months to come millions of Americans will be doing the same thing thanks to MyPlate.”

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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  • beerios
    Posted on June 2, 2011 at 2:22pm

    As far as I’m concerned, anything ending with a “dot gov” in this administration has absolutely ZERO credibility and is quickly ignored if not ridiculed.

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  • GERATMO
    Posted on June 2, 2011 at 2:21pm

    Whats next, a graph to tell me how to take a wizz. Im going to McDonalds right now. Skrew your graph.

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    • Outlaw_Josey_Wales
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 2:35pm

      Whats Next
      Prepackaged meals for the government to guarantee a well balanced diet.

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    • Outlaw_Josey_Wales
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 2:50pm

      Whats Next
      Prepackaged meals from the government to guarantee a well balanced diet

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    • commonsenseguy
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 3:23pm

      @ o j w , those are called M R E’s . and they taste like crap, but they will feel you up,if you can stand to eat them, but we might ought to get ready to eat them if the government keeps heading down the road of communistic tactics,

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  • RightUnite
    Posted on June 2, 2011 at 2:20pm

    I wonder which Obama friend is making millions off of this stupid idea.

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    • Bluebonnet
      Posted on June 3, 2011 at 12:56am

      Secondly, stop eating so much chicken unless it says it’s not injected with growth hormones etc. same with milk. Organic is expensive but I do try to buy organic chicken or without injections, same with hamburger, I buy the best I can without shots & growth hormones in the meat. If you start paying attention, you actually start cooking better and more nutritious meals. Try to remember empty calories.

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  • MikeDiesel
    Posted on June 2, 2011 at 2:20pm

    It’s actually not a bad idea. I mean, the pyramid (triangle) is pretty difficult to comprehend. It has THREE right angles, people! Now, a cirlce has no right angles. Enough said.

    On a serious note, we are a bunch of fatties in this country. The poorer people are, the more likely they seem to be fat. That’s pretty weird. I think that is really part of a greater plan, probably related to the dumbing down of our schools. Make us fat and stupid, and we will be easier to control. Just like in Wall-E.

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    • Vickie Dhaene
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 2:49pm

      The reasons why the poor a fatter than most is because WE CAN’T AFFORD fresh vegetables and meats. We buy Hamburger Helper and rice products. Meals that go far are full of sugars and fats.

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    • MikeDiesel
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 3:00pm

      And the reason those foods are cheap is because the government subsidizes them. If they subsidized healthy, whole foods more poor people might buy them. Thank you for helping me make my point about it being a giant conspiracy.

      Illumin-not not me, Illuminati please!

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    • Chet Hempstead
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 10:56pm

      It’s not really that the pyramid was hard to read so much as that it was wrong. Cattle barely need to eat as much grain as they told us we should. And cattle is what humans would end up looking like if they followed it. This looks like a slightly better diet, except for that saucer that the dairy lobby got them to slap on the side. Dairy should really be part of the protein group, and when you separate them out the cart shows a lot more protein than you actually need.

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    • Bluebonnet
      Posted on June 3, 2011 at 12:40am

      The poor are fatter because they buy junk food with their food stamps. Try eating pinto beans and cornbread 3x a week and get off the junk food. Frozen veggies are supposed to be better because they are processed and frozen almost immediately and most pkgs. are around a dollar if you get store brand.
      Stop eating so much white bread, stop drinking soda pop, drink water. Try salads when greens are on sale. Shop the sales, stop buying the most expensive brands. Make out a grocery list and stick to it unless something you need is on sale. This is how I live, and it gets to be a habit to buy the best and most nutritious for the least amount of money. Stay out of the bakery and bake your own.

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  • Uechi
    Posted on June 2, 2011 at 2:20pm

    The Government and Michelle Obama can kiss my grits. I will not be told what eat. You may getthat from your significant other or your Mom great, but no Government interference either locally or Federally..When will these AHs stick to there Constitutionally assigned jobs, God deliver me from Progressives. They would have you believe these are gudelines or suggestions wait till Obama care gets fully iimplemented. They will regulate what, where and when you eat or deny you health care, Think this is crazy, Look at NYC regulations on using salt in resturants. Progressives will never be happy till they regulate every aspect of our lives and make us all totally dependent on Bog Brother. It’s ok though, they are just doing it for our own good. We are all too stuoid to know what is good for us.“ Pass the French Fries and the Salt pleas”

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  • frustratedwithgovt
    Posted on June 2, 2011 at 2:19pm

    If I can figure this out with just a quick search of the Net I can’t see how it could possibly cost 2 million. Just proves that the Gov’t is not capable of being a good steward of our dollars.

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  • Cabo King
    Posted on June 2, 2011 at 2:18pm

    with the exception of Michells football partys!!!!! jack arses

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  • cbazan3
    Posted on June 2, 2011 at 2:17pm

    liberals need someone to control their lives for them. How would they have time in the day to be stupid if someone was not taking care of the important issues for them?

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  • KevINtampa
    Posted on June 2, 2011 at 2:17pm

    Awesome, I was unsure how to eat before, but this solved a lot of my problems. Now if someone government program will just tell me how to properly wipe my anus I’ll be all set.

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  • geonj
    Posted on June 2, 2011 at 2:17pm

    where is fat in all this? as much as it is hated by miclelle it is neccesary in some amount for a healthy diet. is beef, chicken and fish all equal in the portion size this chart represents? i don’t see a portion place for bacon. can i fill up the protein spot with bacon? sorry michelle, this is ignorant and foolish, just like you.

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  • 2smart
    Posted on June 2, 2011 at 2:15pm

    I also have a visual, it shows where you can place your new visual! I have been successfully eating for 52 years now. I am 6′0 and weigh 186 lbs. According to the old visuals from the Government I am about right. So stuff it

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  • harumph
    Posted on June 2, 2011 at 2:14pm

    Mickey lost an ear. Was that the beer circle?

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  • uncleskull
    Posted on June 2, 2011 at 2:13pm

    I don’t see any place for beer. Gotta have beer with pizza.

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  • Brontefan
    Posted on June 2, 2011 at 2:13pm

    While I think that this is a noble project.. changing the pyramid to the plate… I cannot see how spending the amount of money on this is valid at a time when millions of Americans are desperately worried about our economy. This is why so many of us think that the Prez and his wife are totally out of touch with the American people. BO keeps promising to make changes that will help us, but all we get is promises. While they eat lobster weekly, purchase new limos, fly around the world enjoying life in the WH, the rest of us have seen food and gasoline prices skyrocket, watched the systematic destruction of our jobs –indirectly or directly as a result of environmental issues, and have no idea what will happen to the skyrocketing health care costs for –NO,NOT THE VERY WEALTHY–but instead the average American working person.

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  • TumbleBumble
    Posted on June 2, 2011 at 2:12pm

    Where are the Spanish words for Fruits, Grains, etc… in each section? Those color codes for each food wouldn’t get across to me what groups I was supposed to have more or less of, if I didn’t understand English. How utterly insensitive.

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  • compatriotshonor
    Posted on June 2, 2011 at 2:12pm

    Again, these morons seem to think we all are so stupid that we need visual pictures to understand healthy eating.
    Go tell the wife of the coward in chief, to take her husband back to kenya and stay there, because we do not need them to interfere with our lives and we do not need thier liberationist theology.

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    • Baberaham Lincoln
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 2:47pm

      Are you kidding me? Have you gone outside and walked around this country lateley? Americans need this — and a hell of a lot more — to understand healthy eating. We are collectively more out of shape than a herd of tired cows.

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    • commonsenseguy
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 3:17pm

      @baberaham lincoln, speak for your self, i may be 47 and 265 pounds, but it is a hard ,in shape, country fed shape, i can hold my own with anybody, may be not a marathon, but i can out work out half this country and a lot of younger men who just seat around all day playing games ,and still have enough left to do my job,and chores, so speak for your self and your family,

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  • SAYNOTOSOCIALISM
    Posted on June 2, 2011 at 2:12pm

    I could give a rats a** what the thunder thighed Mooooochelle thinks.
    I’m gonna eat what I want and no stupid plate picture is gonna change that.

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  • CatB
    Posted on June 2, 2011 at 2:10pm

    I have a “visual” for them … I am showing them right now .. has to do with a finger on my hand .. a middle finger. Go away food police … have never seen such control freaks in my life!

    TEA!

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  • moriarty70
    Posted on June 2, 2011 at 2:10pm

    Talk about indoctrination, I mean just look at that fork, on the left! Seriously though, nothing wrong with this.

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    • what4
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 8:40pm

      Comming from someone who requires a pilot vehicle to moooove about the White House! Talk about a wide load!

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  • last frontier
    Posted on June 2, 2011 at 2:10pm

    I hope it’s in EBONICS.

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  • Ironeagle
    Posted on June 2, 2011 at 2:09pm

    What BS. How much taxpayer dollars went into this travesty? They’ve just reinvented the food pyramid and portrayed it in PC terms. What a crock of crap. My food pyramid: wine, red meat, rice/potatoes, vegtables, salad, a fine cigar along with a good bourbon on the finish.

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    • USAMEDIC3008
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 2:32pm

      May I substitute Scots whiskie for the bourbon

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    • tinydd
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 4:47pm

      Screw the food, whiskey and a cigar will do just fine…

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    • CatB
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 6:14pm

      I’m going to need strong “spirits” to get thought the rest of the Obama “change” before we start CHANGING IT BACK!

      TEA! … Strong TEA!

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on June 3, 2011 at 12:23am

      Look at the EU ….. vegetables will kill you

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  • We Are Not Alone
    Posted on June 2, 2011 at 2:08pm

    WOW, that’s brilliant and it only cost us $2 million, wish I’d figured it out on my own…. pleeeeze

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  • The_Almighty_Creestof
    Posted on June 2, 2011 at 2:07pm

    But hey…we’re cutting spending!

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    • JD Carp
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 2:28pm

      So it took the Obama administration to showcase government waste because of their disregard for the electorate, but rest assured our entire system gas become so corrupt, so polluted we will have to damn near start from scratch to clean up this mess. We created our own ruling elite and now it is time for Patriot Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter;

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    • Cold War Vet
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 10:09pm

      @ JD CARP

      I’m on for Patriot summer and fall!

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  • bandi9
    Posted on June 2, 2011 at 2:07pm

    they way this Admin is going, we will just be glad to be able to have something on our plate at all.

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    • CatB
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 2:14pm

      Exactly .. . food prices going up ..and up and up …

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    • Untameable-kate
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 2:50pm

      Maybe if the union teachers would stop worrying about their vacation time and pensions, and maybe start teaching, the fatties would not be too uneducated to understand the pyramid. I am insulted at the mindset within the government that we are stupid sheep who need to be led by the hand so we don‘t make choices they don’t agree with.

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    • REETZBEE
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 4:01pm

      Are they going to change the flag next? Michelle did say change is going to be hard.

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    • orkydorky
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 4:16pm

      I say, eliminate the Department of Agriculture, just another boon-doggle that wastes our taxes and loads us down with regulations!

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    • tinydd
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 4:42pm

      You can tell me what to put on my plate when you pry my fork from my cold dead hand. Moochelle, worry about your eating habits and we’ll worry about ours.

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    • GETLIFE
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 7:47pm

      KATE, you are right–“insulting” is the word for it.

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    • dealer@678
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 10:03pm

      If the Obama face is on it. Im having Lasagna

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  • Thevoice
    Posted on June 2, 2011 at 2:07pm

    And the price tag to this is What ( $ we, are, broke.00 )….

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    • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 2:10pm

      Why would that cost 2 million bucks?

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    • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 2:13pm

      “America’s top doctor, Surgeon General Regina Benjamin, confirms that this new “plate” is connected to Michelle Obama’s larger plot to stop fat people from being so fat all the time. According to Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack, the fatties were too fat to interpret a pyramid, which was really just a garden-variety 2D triangle.”

      Plot? It thickens.
      Tom Vilsack, those fatties pay your salary, big boy.
      I’m not a fattie, but I’d resent being called one.

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    • Rational Man
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 2:14pm

      I don’t have a problem with them coming out with their new little advisory graphic. They have always had one and it is a good thing.
      What I don‘t like is the goverment trying to ’force’ me to eat what they want me to eat. I have a problem with them trying to control the fast food industry and targeting idividual companies with smear campaigns and regulations. It’s unconstitutional picking their favorites and hounding/demonizing the ones THEY decide are bad. No individual freedom in that!

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    • LaidBackTaps
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 2:18pm

      That Right, Cause I can’t Choose On My Own… THE GOVERNMENT TO THE RESCUE!!

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    • Obama Snake Oil Co
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 2:19pm

      Dear President Obama:

      I am writing today with a somewhat unusual request. First and foremost, I am asking that you return America to its August 20th, 1959 borders so that Hawaii is no longer a state and you are no longer a citizen.

      Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

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    • Living In NYC
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 2:19pm

      It looks like a Romper Room Visual!

      Hey Michelle it is about intake and exercise….where is the rest of the story!

      Not much meat (sorry) for our $2 Million!

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    • TSUNAMI-22
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 2:23pm

      I made a picture in response to the governments picture and it’s free. Ready: Everyone imagine a fist with with the second digit extended upwards.

      Simple, yet effective.

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    • We Are Not Alone
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 2:26pm

      Does the $2 million include the cost of having these plates printed in Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, French, etc and any other language……. just in case they DON’T SPEAK ENGLISH!!!!!

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    • Exrepublisheep
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 2:28pm

      Only 2 Million? That would cover, almost, 10 trips to my sons baseball games.

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    • Thevoice
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 2:31pm

      Anonymous T. Irrelevant…I would guarantee that the actual costs are much higher…But we would never know…We would be picked up as terrorists if we went to see what this and the departments costs to operate . ..Just think there is some office somewhere, down some long hallway in some government building ..That some desk squatter has been in everyday overseeing the food pyramid … With three steel filing cabinets …containing the top secret government operation …“My Plate” …Gives new meaning to …insanity ….

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    • dizzyinthedark
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 2:33pm

      “They couldn’t figure out the other one!?” What?! Well okay let’s see the pounds melt off with novel new picture graph then! Funny thing, Michelle O‘s bottom hasn’t gotton any smaller in 2.5 years she’s been in office! I’m not making fun now, just pointing out IT ISN’T GOING TO MATTER!! All the money in the world isn’t going to change the problem with obesity. The problem lies with the person themselves–it’s not hormones, it’s not thyroid, it’s not emotions, it’s a problem of not being able to say ENOUGH, STOP, NO MORE! Quit buying the cookies, candies, crackers, chips for petesake!

      Wow, when will people quit looking elsewhere to find the cause/solutions to their problems! Take care of your own (bleep)!

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    • SavingtheRepublic.com
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 2:34pm

      ^____^____^
      Thought criminals take notes on how to eat. Soon you will be told what to watch on tv, listen on the radio, what clothes to buy, what groups to be part of etc etc. Dont you see thought criminals you are too stupid to know whats best for you. The government compromised of individuals with no real world experience, educated at the fnest education establishments know what is best. They read books, books written by progressives, radical, hardcore liberals and revolutionaries.

      Oh yes yes they will tell you how to live your life, many of you will complain and as usual do nothing waiting for someone else to come along and do something b/c you are too busy in your little world…. while you bitch n moan….. How much is enough? http://youtu.be/C1zkGZRfj24

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    • 4stmichael
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 2:43pm

      New York Times, the U.S.D.A. has already spent $2 million developing and promoting the plate logo, costs that covered research, focus groups and the creation of a new Web site
      ===
      2 MILLION $$$$
      Borrowed from Whom?
      Money Going to Whom?
      Follow That Money Trail!!!

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    • CultureWarriors
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 2:44pm

      They’re out of control! Drunk with spending other peoples money on completely worthless crap. Get a rope.

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    • Mannax
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 2:44pm

      It says: http://www.choosemyplate.gov

      but in the near future, it will become http://www.choosewhatsonmyplate.gov

      or http://www.ihavenochoicewhatsonmyplate.gov

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    • microace
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 2:48pm

      After viewing it, I’m going to stop being so fat all the time, I’m only going to be fat part of the time now.

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    • desertkid
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 2:48pm

      “Now you too can be a member of the ”clean plate club” here is first lady Michele Obama to explain how.”

      Get ready folks, it’s coming. Can’t wait.

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    • JRook
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 3:12pm

      That’s not nearly as sad or manipulative than the tens of millions of dollars lobbied by the food industry to skew the data and influence the final version. And in case people here don’t understand the context, health prevention is much, much better an investment than having a bunch of obese Medicare and Medicaid folks having heart attacks.

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    • CaptainKook
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 3:19pm

      Leave it to The Blaze to try to create controversy where NONE exists.

      and all the Blazers to go along with and celebrate the stupidity.
      .

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    • CaptainKook
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 3:23pm

      “That’s not nearly as sad or manipulative than the tens of millions of dollars lobbied by the food industry to skew the data and influence the final version. ”

      True
      IF you’e tallkng about the old Food Pyramid that was just replaced – many many industry bucks lined many pockets over the years with pushing that scam – still think sugary cereals and white bread are good for your kids? Thank the old Food Pyramid and the food industry that created it and used it to sell unhealthy food.
      .

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    • OneFootRandy
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 3:34pm

      Honestly, in the grand scheme of things, this doesnt baother me much at all. $2 million seems retarded, but overall the design makes much more sense than the old pyramid. I have much less issue with informative measures like this than enforcement issues that come from them.

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    • Gold Coin & Economic News
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 3:40pm

      The government can’t be trusted for anything and we shoudl trust them on what we should eat? Right, let’s get real.

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    • 101
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 3:59pm

      Old thunder thighs should practice what she preaches.

      Whatever happened to the original food chart that we all grew up with “you are what you eat” and what was wrong with it. Now we have this lady/person that was never elected to office dictating to us how & what to eat. WTF!

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    • godlovinmom
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 4:03pm

      I totally believe in eating healthier, I just don’t want anyone telling me I have to…by the way…maybe Mrs. Obama should stick to something she knows, and eating right isn’t one of them…have you seen her backside? maybe she should take a third and fourth look at that plate of hers. not nice I know, but sick of this lady already!

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    • Sheepdog911
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 4:04pm

      Hey, at least they still have the giant milkshake off there on the side. What a waste of money.

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    • The Big Pickle
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 4:10pm

      Worst First Lady in history. And worst on the eyes too.

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    • Nobamazone
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 4:20pm

      the 2 mil was just to decide to make the change, that does not include the cost of the actual change which is distributed across thousands of individual grants. Think of all the places, flyer’s, posters, web, Dr. office, clinics, health depart, schools etc, you see that pyramid… each individual place that distributes them will have a cost (covered by a grant… read taxpayer money) replacing the pyramid with the new visual.
      On an up note…. this new design will be MUCH easier to make into a toddler puzzle! Guess they considered that when they decided we were all too stupid to “get” the pyramid.

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    • the hawk
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 4:23pm

      It’s that 1000$ hammer thing ?

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    • papapatriot
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 4:33pm

      How did I ever live to be seventy one, raise 8 children and have 18 grandchildren, all healthy, without the government telling me how to eat. Thanks Michelle I’ll be sure to follow your advise. GET THE HELL OUT OF OUR LIVES!!!

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    • CALL ME SNAKE
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 4:59pm

      Get the heck out of my kitchen/dining room/life. I can run or ruin my own life without the goverment’s “help”.

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    • JoeAmerica
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 5:01pm

      I like the new plate. I think it will be easier for kids to understand the plate rather then a pyramid. I think Michelle is trying to keep people safe, and alive. We fight war after war in the name of keeping people safe and alive.. so what’s wrong with this?

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    • biohazard23
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 5:12pm

      I’m sorry, but I don’t see empty promises, bull$#!+, and Koolaid on that diagram. This must be the one the administration WANTS people to see instead of the one they really have in store…….

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    • mill
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 5:12pm

      puke, spending money we don’t have….she should write the check to change it all..puke
      I really dislike the fact that “my people” want to change so damned much stuff . Hey!, it ain’t broken, leave it alone, go do something constructive that will help us ……

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    • The Big Pickle
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 5:13pm

      Two million dollars is nothing for the obongo’s….just the cost of desserts for one of their weekly gangsta rappa concerts at the White House.

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    • TEIN
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 5:19pm

      Geeee..I is 2 dum to no watt 2 eatz….T’ank awl doze peeps an monyz spent tu hep me out…now if I jut dident liv in a fooood desert…..

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    • ENCIINOM
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 5:27pm

      Conservatives are ignorent. For the party of “job creation” why are you guys griping. Someone got paid to make this graph. WHy do yall hate when President Obama creates jobs. Same ole Racists

       
    • gAMEoVER
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 5:28pm

      more 4 flotus.

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    • PATTY HENRY
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 5:30pm

      I literally cannot STAND these fools !! THEY pull stuff like this yet don’t let people grow food or share milk with neighbors. VOTE THESE IDIOTS OUT NOW. They have NOT earned the right to tell ANYONE what/how to do anything!!! THEY have NO HONOR; NO Allegiance to our PRECIOUS country…these are nothing more than PLASTIC POLITICAL PUPPETS, hell -bent on destroying AMERICA. SHAME on them. SHAME ON US if we don’t vote them out in 2012…all of them, Every last COMMIE MARXIST SOCIALIST creep of them. What on earth would make someone want to support ENSLAVERS??? Are they stupid? Are they blind?? Didn‘t they see what’s gone on with these creeps. LIFE IS FROM GOD. LIFE requires work. Otherwise we are blobs. WAKE UP people. THIS IS just more of the same…I despise her and this. I will go eat a hamburger in honor of this. JERKS…one and all..scandalized people… creeps and crooks.

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    • TheLascone
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 5:32pm

      Hey Moma Obama …. Where ya going with all this ?
      http://www.flickr.com/photos/23630227@N06/5791474848/in/photostream/

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    • avenger
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 5:33pm

      fkng idiots ! I would have done this for free….

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    • OlefromMN
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 5:45pm

      Just another government program we can ignore. A pie chart is going to be differnt from a pie chart, how? If they are going to flush money down the toilet, can they at least shave a couple of million into my bank account?

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    • Teaparty-grammy
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 6:05pm

      @ENCIINOM who Posted on June 2, 2011 at 5:27pm :
      Conservatives are ignorent. For the party of “job creation” why are you guys griping. Someone got paid to make this graph. WHy do yall hate when President Obama creates jobs. Same ole Racists

      Poor little liberal dumbshi** – so scared of having the freedome to choose what it eats that it needs the government to take care of it and keep it safe from the cradle to the grave, and anybody who says different is a RACIST, so there!

      Your statement that this was “job creation” is so breathtakingly stupid that it does not deserve a response. Ego-stroking for Moo-chelle’s enormous a$$,. perhaps, but job creation? Give me a freaking break! Surely even YOU are not that stoopid?

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    • @ Coyote2
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 6:19pm

      What’s that B!t<l-l got to say about it? I doubt that she could make a jelly sandwich on her own.

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    • nptden
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 6:24pm

      Guess it won’t help the First Lady. She is still wide in the beam.

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    • Gerrymanderer
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 6:24pm

      Hey spending 2 million on educating people to not be fat and unhealthy has a bigger payout in the end, hopefully. We need people to stay healthy so they won’t need expensive, dollar draining health care later on in their fat lives.

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    • NSDQ
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 6:24pm

      Im sorry $2M to draw a picture of a plate and rehash what we already knew 50 years ago, I SO AM IN THE WRONG PROFESSION

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    • GETLIFE
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 6:53pm

      What a great visual, and so easy to use!
      Let’s see:

      protein= beef patty
      grains= buns
      veges= lettuce, onions, pickles, ketchup
      dairy= milkshake
      fruit= STRAWBERRY milkshake

      Yes indeedy, I like this a whole lot better than the pyramid. It’s got a much “freer” feel to it.

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    • GETLIFE
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 6:59pm

      Just kidding, I know ketchup is not a vegetable. I choose to add fries….

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    • heyjms
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 8:06pm

      I will keep this in mind tonight when I go out and eat some Big Mac’s…. mmmmmmm big mac’s :)

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    • Partygirl
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 8:09pm

      The nanny state at it wasting our money or should I say China’s money. I have looked at all guidlines for eating healty and I can say if I ate all the calories they said you need I would be really fat. I think they had better rethink what they are saying. One size does not fit all. I can’t imagine all the waste there is going to be in the schools and children simply not eating. Anyone who has had children understands some do not like plain foods. When my children were growing up I had to make their lunches every day. They hated the school food. That was a long time ago. I guess alot of children are going to go hungry. Can you say food fight? I don’t want to be the ones cleaning up the mess in the cafeterias, not to mention the amount of food the children will throw out.

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    • BuckOfama
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 8:09pm

      I thought this was another story on a BigFoot sighting…..

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    • Paydert33
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 8:11pm

      @GODLOVINMOM………Yes, mooochelle is a moocher. Telling us what to eat…..sprouts, carrots, veggies…..while all the while she is living it up, out of the country with about 300 of her friends, eating high off the hog, and……. eating the hog. She is a very mean person….huge, huge chip on her shoulder. She does not care one iota about the little people. Just look at her mean facial expressions. I can’t believe to this day that he was voted into office with the horrible remarks each of them said during the campaign. I don’t care who the Republicans have running against o-loser, anyone is fine with me….just get him out. Rush said he would vote for Elmer Fudd.

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    • TunaBlue
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 8:11pm

      Mmmmm, looks like a pizza. Make mine a large with extra cheese (calcium) and meat (protein).

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    • PatriotsLikeMe
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 8:21pm

      It cost so much cause Michelle kept cleaning the plates. Hey, she has a grueling job and needs her carbs and proteins, ok people?!! Sheesh, can’t a first lady get a little groveling and witless acquiescence here?

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    • Ruler4You
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 8:54pm

      So, who ‘didn’t’ know that the U.S. Government (every last Mothers one of them) is a form of organized crime?

      They can’t take a p_iss that it doesn’t cost the tax payer $! Make that $xxxxxxxxxxx,xx

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    • jhaydeng
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 8:56pm

      You get to a point where you just sit back and watch the Obama admin set themselves up for a sweep in 2012.

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    • ramburner
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 9:04pm

      Broke or not, they published it around the FDA! Doesn’t this become a pattern for the Obummer administration? We have specialized agencies in charge of research and even the president’s wife takes control of the government. The diet plan does look better than the FDA version, however, they should have had more protein, which could come from vegetables as well, and less grains and water in place of the milk. Cows are stuck with Bovine Growth Hormone (BGH) which goes through the cow and ends up in the milk. The same thing happens with the antibiotics they are given. They say it’s to keep them healthy, but everyone that drinks the milk gets a dose of BGH and antibiotics. Then society wonders why little girls develop at a young age, and society is experiencing an epidemic of antibiotic resistant bacteria! Think out-of-the-box people. DO NOT let the government lead you blindly down a path to extinction! The One World Government supporters are planning to make most land in America available ONLY to animals. They want a reduction of people from the current 6 billion or so to less than 500 million! What happens to society? They are trying to kill us with untested drugs, genetic engineering of our food supply and the chemicals that are allowed to be placed on our bodies. Look at the content of processed foods. If you cannot pronounce the contents, don’t eat it!

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    • TopOfTheMuffin2u
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 9:21pm

      Where’s the beef?

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    • outsidethebox
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 9:26pm

      I’ve got my own food guide. It’s called personal choice and responsibility. I don’t need the government telling me what to eat.

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    • @ Coyote2
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 10:57pm

      One day a florist goes to a barber for a haircut. After the cut he asked about his bill and the barber replies: “I’m sorry, I cannot accept money from you: I’m doing community service this week.” The florist is pleased and leaves the shop.
      The next morning when the barber goes to open his shop door there is a dozen roses waiting for him at his door.

      Later a cop comes in for a haircut and when he goes to pay his bill the barber says “I’m sorry, I cannot accept money from you: I’m doing community service this week.” The cop is happy and leaves the shop.
      The next morning when the barber goes to open up there is a thank you note and a dozen donuts waiting for him at his door.

      Later a Republican comes in for a haircut, and when he goes to pay his bill the barber again relies “I’m sorry, I cannot accept money from you: I’m doing community service this week.” The Republican is very happy and leaves the shop.
      The next morning when the barber goes to open his shop there is a thank you note and a dozen various books such as “How to Improve Your Business” and “Becoming More Successful”.

      Then a Democrat comes in for a haircut, and when he goes to pay the bill the barber again replies “I’m sorry, I cannot accept money from you: I’m doing community service this week.” The Democrat is happy and leaves the shop.

      The next morning when the barber goes to open his shop, there are a dozen Democrats lined up waiting for a free haircut.

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    • jzs
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 11:08pm

      How dare the government spend to educate Americans on healthy eating? We’re probably the fattest nation on Earth, with the greatest incidence of heart disease, and have the the greatest proportion of young people who are to fat to serve in army as well as the greatest mortality for fatuousness.

      Any Government recommendations about healthy eating (which is forcing you to eat what they want because you can’t do against the Government) takes away from the freedoms that our Founding Fathers wrote into the Constitution of the United States of America.

      For the First Lady to recommend healthy eating is pure communism

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    • banjarmon
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 11:09pm

      WOW!! Ms BO now knows where to put food on her plate….I goes here says the milk>>>

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 11:35pm

      CAPTAINKOOK when you are a worthless drain on humanity you can make a statements like yours. I bet you mommy regrets that drug laced night at the bus station

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 11:58pm

      JZS it has nothing to do with health…… control yes!
      Control food
      Control energy
      Control private business
      Control private property
      Need I go on? Do you really think they care about you?
      Really?

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    • Bluebonnet
      Posted on June 3, 2011 at 12:27am

      First of all: No one is gonna follow this any better than before. What the heck does the plate represent anyway? People will eat what they want with or without the Millions in changes. Secondly: No one with a big fat butt is gonna tell me how to eat. Set an example and we’ll see about it, maybe.

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    • getalong
      Posted on June 3, 2011 at 12:35am

      I think what MO really means is that she is working hard to waste the taxpayer’s money!

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    • Disnylv
      Posted on June 3, 2011 at 12:41am

      I would have drawn and colored with crayons as well for far less

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    • silentwatcher
      Posted on June 3, 2011 at 1:30am

      That plate of ‘Michelle O’s” food now cost 5 times what it did 2 years ago….did she have any ‘wise’ thoughts on how the majority of the American people can now afford to live by “her” standards?????? piss off

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    • ecurbyy
      Posted on June 3, 2011 at 8:03am

      Having these charts and cautions and warnings are necessary so later on when were under some form of national health care they can say, Whoa! We warned you, or we told you so when you have a health problem and then they can refuse you any care simply because you failed to heed their warnings or follow their directions. End of story.

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    • ecurbyy
      Posted on June 3, 2011 at 8:10am

      Man! I almost had that triangle figured out, and now It’s a circle! I think I’ll grab me a bag of pork rinds and some root beer and get down to studying this thing.

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    • Swamp B Gummer
      Posted on June 3, 2011 at 9:42am

      We are just fat and happy drinking all dat watermelon juice aren’t we

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    • jackrorabbit
      Posted on June 3, 2011 at 11:21am

      What I love is that the old Triangle of foods was too “Hard for them”. BULL****! If the teachers would spend two days on it, they would know it. I learned it when I was in second grade, and STILL know it by heart. It isn’t hard, and by the way MATH isn’t hard either. I wish “teachers” would stop saying things are “too hard” for children to learn, and just TEACH!!!!! The problem isn’t with the students ability to learn, the problem is the teachers WILLINGNESS to TEACH.

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    • GETLIFE
      Posted on June 3, 2011 at 12:06pm

      Thanks for the laugh COYOTE2.

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    • TheLascone
      Posted on June 4, 2011 at 6:08pm

      With this administration …. If you are not seated at the table …..
      http://www.flickr.com/photos/23630227@N06/4110865618/in/photostream

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