USDA to Spend $10 Million to Help Fund Michelle Obama‘s ’Food Deserts’
- Posted on June 6, 2011 at 9:40pm by
Billy Hallowell
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First, it was the creation of a new “plate” graphic that instructs Americans about what they should be eating. Now, the Agriculture Department is infusing more financial resources into a grant program that will promote farmer’s markets in rural and urban areas across America.
This year, the USDA will provide $10 million in grants, thus doubling what was allocated during Fiscal Year 2010, to help create roadside stands and healthy food outlets. These new venues will be strategically placed in “food deserts.” In the past, Michelle Obama has described these areas as places where “…families wind up buying their groceries at the local gas station or convenience store, places that offer few, if any, healthy options.”
This uptick in government investment coincides with the belief that these food deserts contribute to obesity. Below, WOAI-TV covers how these healthy-food deficient areas impact residents:
Do you live in a food desert? by LocalNews-GrabNetworks
CNSNews.com has more on Obama’s new plans to remedy the issue:
The priority this year is to bring fresh food to people living in rural and urban “food deserts,” a concept advanced by First Lady Michelle Obama. Food deserts are defined as areas with limited access to affordable and nutritious food, particularly those composed of predominantly lower-income neighborhoods and communities…
The Farmers’ Market Promotion Program (FMPP) funds projects that “contribute to the economic and physical health of communities around the country,” the USDA says. The goal is to “increase domestic consumption of agricultural commodities” by improving and expanding farmers markets, or creating new ones.
Since 1994, the number of farmers markets included in the USDA National Farmers Market Directory has expended more than three-fold, rising from 1,755 to 6,132. The end goal here is to inevitably provide better acces to healthier foods in areas that are extremely limited in their grocery availability. The deadline for these competitive grants is July 1.
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godhatesacoward
Posted on June 6, 2011 at 10:30pmwhat the he!! is she talking about! 10mil.! come on Moochelle! I can’t think of anybody that is living on a diet of redbull & twinkies.(that don’t want to ) rural folk know how to feed there family correctly. they are probally a lot more healthy than most! (tend there own vegies, livestock & the such) I just do not follow the logic in billing us 10 fn’ million dollars!! We do still know how to feed ourselves you piece O’crap!
Report Post »purplebutterfly
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 9:52amAccording to Rutgers University, we are too stupid to feed ourselves correctly. (I love the part about some of the families receiving the lessons online. If you have access to the internet AND YOU REALLY CARE, you can find everything you need to know about a healthy lifestyle without the government having to cram instructions down your throat.) The government can’t pee away our money fast enough!
http://news.rutgers.edu/medrel/research/improving-a-child201-20110603
Report Post »semihardrock
Posted on June 6, 2011 at 10:29pmthese are the same people who will DENY a Super Walmart to be built because of non-union employees who staff Walmart! whatever is going to be done, it will be done with union help which will DEVOUR the monies appropriated!
Report Post »marcellucci
Posted on June 6, 2011 at 10:26pmIf she wants to create a foundation funded by private donations…fine….
Report Post »Why pick my pocket?
BigMuddy
Posted on June 6, 2011 at 10:26pmI think I’m about to lose my flippin mind. We have no money, yet these marxist keep spending. The marxist have no values, but they want to tell us how to live. The risk takers keep working harder, making less, pay higher taxes, are burdened by more regulation, and are bombared with leftist propaganda in the movies, music, television and news which attempts to poison the minds of our children. This crap must stop.
Report Post »crowbar
Posted on June 6, 2011 at 10:26pmWait a minute. Didn’t they just pass that food bill that shutdown roadside fruit and veggy stands. What a bunch of idiots. Oh yeah, here it is.
SB 510 Will Allow Government to Put You in Jail for Growing,Sharing, Trading and Sharing Homegrown Food
Report Post »CatB
Posted on June 6, 2011 at 11:23pmYes .. they don’t want you to “share” they want GOVERNMENT control of food … next they will shut down the local food pantry.
TEA! 2012 end of an ERROR!
Report Post »Bonnieblue2A
Posted on June 6, 2011 at 11:27pmCrowbar, this is so the government can force GMO produce down the mouths of those in “food deserts”. Obama just defied a SCOTUS injunction prohibiting him from deregulating GMOs last week. Follow the money and you‘ll find Monsanto behind Michelle’s fake concern over nutrition.
Report Post »Roberta LeMaster
Posted on June 7, 2011 at 12:30amI’m glad you used the SB 510 info. here is some usda & cnsnews to see where the money is going to be used for. Money isn’t needed to be used if your “corner fruit stand” is allowed on the corners. I use to work at a “corner fruit stand” & the produce was literally fresh picked and cheaper then the grocery store & yes to today’s so called “farmers markets”. No money was needed from our government what so ever.
The maximum amount awarded for any one proposal cannot exceed $100,000. Entities eligible to apply include agricultural cooperatives, producer networks, producer associations, local governments, nonprofit corporations, public benefit corporations, economic development corporations, regional farmers’ market authorities and Tribal governments.
(http://www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/FMPP)
The money is to be spent on the marketing and promotion of farmers markets; consumer education and outreach; equipment purchase; transportation and delivery; training farmers in business planning and record-keeping; or waste management and “green technologies.”
(http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/usda-spending-10-million-promote-farmers)
lambchop60
Posted on June 6, 2011 at 10:25pmeveryone of them needs to be fire in 012
Report Post »lonewolf57
Posted on June 6, 2011 at 10:22pmWhen we withdraw the $2 Billion loan that Obama sent to Brazil to prop up the Brazilian oil company Petrobras,and Mexican PEMEX oil also got a $2 billion loan to deep drill in the Gulf, then maybe we’ll find a $million or 2 for Moochelles desserts.
Report Post »NEMATIC
Posted on June 6, 2011 at 10:21pmHollywood couldn’t make this stuff up.
Report Post »caprica
Posted on June 6, 2011 at 10:21pmmichelle is stupid communsit limited idiot ! not first lady but very dumb lazy not much !
Report Post »I.Gaspar
Posted on June 6, 2011 at 10:20pmWe have to vote obama out of office for many reasons, but one big one is to get her out of the white house. She isn‘t an elected official and we shouldn’t have to listen to and pay for all this crud she spews.
Report Post »Enough already!
FlowerBell
Posted on June 7, 2011 at 2:40amAnother good reason is so Obama can’t appoint any new supreme court justices. We have to live with them for the rest of their lives, and he only appoints liberals.
Report Post »caprica
Posted on June 6, 2011 at 10:19pmcan’t wait for November 2012…..to vote this obama and his wife and the rest of the cooookes out !
Report Post »caprica
Posted on June 6, 2011 at 10:18pmthey using our hard earn money as toilet paper ……obmaa and his dumb wife ……vote this idiots out ! they are dumb dumb – and because of being dumb all they know is how to dictate ! they are pathetic……..savages ~!
Report Post »Frustrated
Posted on June 6, 2011 at 10:12pmI mean really??? With all the problems we have, she has to invent one?? Her and her stupid A$$ husband should be charged with Treason, all they have done is spend, spend, spend and all for the “poor” how about we STOP spending soo much on people that CHOOSE not to do for themselves, giving them housing, food, $$ obviously isnt working, these two certainly want to be everyones savior (well everyone except for the people that contribute to society, for them its just pay, pay, pay) I never really HATED anyone before I learned of Obama, take your whole family and get OUT
Report Post »tinydd
Posted on June 6, 2011 at 10:35pmIsn’t a BJ considered healthy? Moochelle, take care of Barry and we’ll worry about our own eating habits.
Report Post »RN MOM
Posted on June 6, 2011 at 10:12pmOh, I’m sorry. I don’t remember WHEN Michelle ran for office. Did hubby appoint her as another one of his Czars? Michelle, instead of saving the country, why don’t you save your husband? Charity begins at home! Last pic of him he was shoving a huge gooey chili dog into his mouth.
Report Post »Captain Crunch
Posted on June 6, 2011 at 10:22pmI live in Toledo where that “food crime” took place. Without saying the name of the well known establishment that made the chili dogs, for fear of being sued, I have to advise everyone to stay away from those dogs. Everytime I eat one of those things I swear my gut feels like I ate a brick for the next two days. I can just imagine Obama running for the stall. Fact not fiction!
Report Post »Av8tor056
Posted on June 6, 2011 at 10:10pmThis is so great!!! I can visit the fruit stand at the bottom of the Grand Canyon the nest time I visit. What a waste of our money.
Report Post »silvertop
Posted on June 6, 2011 at 10:08pmThey‘re not happy unless they’re spending money we don’t have! We need to get down to business….stop the spending and cut out all of the waste!
Report Post »Mandors
Posted on June 6, 2011 at 10:04pmFood deserts? Sounds like UFO’s or the Loch Ness Monster. Or the big one: Global Warming.
Report Post »flsnipe
Posted on June 6, 2011 at 10:03pmWhen she starts losing that tank ass. —– I still don’t care eat drink and be marry
Report Post »ipaevavu
Posted on June 6, 2011 at 10:02pmi live 25 miles from the nearest store and i earn the money i need to go to the store! and i grow some of my own food, if they want to spend 10 million they could put a starbucks closer! the nearest one is 50 miles
Report Post »Frustrated
Posted on June 6, 2011 at 10:01pmI live in an area where there are several grocery stores and I still wait in a line of fat slobs buying doughnuts at 7-11 every morning, this is a complete waste of $$, this is the cause she is pushing???? There is absolutely NO personal responsibility left in this country. Yeah Michelle, I can see a lot of farmers markets in the ghettos of Oakland, way to go genius!!!
Report Post »ipaevavu
Posted on June 6, 2011 at 10:01pmwhat a joke.
Report Post »right
Posted on June 6, 2011 at 10:35pmAnd the joke is on us, the tax payer.
Report Post »Cesium
Posted on June 6, 2011 at 11:14pmI know… I’m sure all these low income people when presented with farmers market will swiftly forgo the KFC for vegetables and fresh meat..
Report Post »Robert-CA
Posted on June 6, 2011 at 10:00pmHmmmmmmmmmmm
Report Post »Let’s see , we have a lot of $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ & extra more to spare .
Let’s see how we can get rid of it .
RepubliCorp
Posted on June 7, 2011 at 2:33amand you can guess who is going to pay for the (FREE) veggies
Report Post »Rich white peeps
uncleskull
Posted on June 7, 2011 at 8:01amThat’s about 9,999,9999.99 too much of OUR money that FLOTUS is spending.
Twice as much as last year? Who amoung us got a 100% raise this year? Certainly not me!
Hope there is something left worth saving in 11/12.
Report Post »AmericanStrega
Posted on June 6, 2011 at 9:53pmI live in rural Kansas. Our small town has approx. 150 people. This includes the farms outside of town. The closest grocery is two blocks from my house. This rural store has just about anything you could want. Including fresh veggies and fruit. What they don’t have we grow ourselves. We also share our harvests with each other. We don’t need Mrs.Obama or the USDA spending our hard earned money (i.e. taxes) to supply Farmers Markets. We grow our own and we take care of our own. And we’re better people for it. We’re not the downtrodden redneck hicks the elite think we are. We take care of ourselves, unlike the people the government beats down just to control.
Report Post »chickenlittle
Posted on June 6, 2011 at 10:01pmI’ll agree with that… leave rural people alone… there‘s more ’food deserts’ in the middle of cities than there are in the country… more fat people too. Better spent money to get rid of the food stamp fraud. Can you imagine the amount of tax dollars has already been spent just coming up with and researching this stupid project? You can live right next to a massive superstore and that still doesn‘t mean you’re eat right.
Report Post »Teaparty-grammy
Posted on June 6, 2011 at 11:29pmIt kind of struck me when I was reading this story . . . duh, people living in rural areas. Don’t most of them ALREADY grow a lot of their own veggies? I‘m sure they don’t need MOO-chelle to help them do it!
Report Post »Rubicon
Posted on June 7, 2011 at 2:36amYou are a true American!!! You said everything with such grace and conviction. It must be so beautiful where you live, and I mean spiritually and visually. God Bless you, your family, and town.
Aloha from Oahu, Hawaii.
Report Post »Rob
Posted on June 6, 2011 at 9:46pmLooks like Michelle visits a lot of food DESSERTS..
Report Post »CatB
Posted on June 6, 2011 at 10:06pmLOL … … good one! Do as I say not as I do — MO.
TEA!
Report Post »Outlaw_Josey_Wales
Posted on June 7, 2011 at 4:20amAt the food desert, with a wink and a nob Michele came get a weiner.
Report Post »Outlaw_Josey_Wales
Posted on June 7, 2011 at 4:27amAt the food desert, with a wink and a nod Michele came get a weiner
Report Post »TheGreyPiper
Posted on June 6, 2011 at 9:43pmGreat. Gonna make roadside fruit stands take food stamps too?
Report Post »No1YaKnow
Posted on June 6, 2011 at 9:49pmDon’t they mean the American taxpayer is to spend that money? Michelle is evil.
Report Post »chickenlittle
Posted on June 6, 2011 at 9:52pmJust last month or so it was all over MSM that the FDA didn’t have the money to properly inspect foreign food coming into the country or even all of our own products for safety… seeing this crap, we’re supposed to wonder why????????
Report Post »jeffyfreezone
Posted on June 6, 2011 at 10:02pmThey‘re urinating on our shoes and telling us it’s raining. I can‘t wait to vote against the corrupt dirtbags who are flushing our life’s work!
Report Post »The_Almighty_Creestof
Posted on June 6, 2011 at 10:03pmCan we just euthanize their parents then since they seem to have no purpose any longer? It would leave the rest of us more (of the right things) to eat.
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on June 6, 2011 at 10:05pmFood deserts are defined as areas with limited access to affordable and nutritious food, particularly those composed of predominantly lower-income neighborhoods and communities…
Translation…Redistribution of wealth…
Report Post »CatB
Posted on June 6, 2011 at 10:05pmNote to USDA and Obama Administration .. .WE ARE BROKE! STOP SPENDING MONEY WE DON”T HAVE. I am really sick of MO ‘s fat a$$ intruding into EVERYTHING!
Report Post »discardofevil
Posted on June 6, 2011 at 10:07pmjust another way OBAMA can control us!! And using are own(taxes) to do it!! Obama and Michelle are need to be taken care of in 2012!! IMPEACH the imposter!!!
Report Post »TexasCommonSense
Posted on June 6, 2011 at 10:13pmThe title should read: USDA to Spend $10 Million of your money to Help Fund Michelle Obama‘s ’Food Deserts’
Report Post »PerniciousD
Posted on June 6, 2011 at 10:26pmThings are really sick when our government comes in to the public schools and tells the school to feed children healthy food.
What happened to the America we loved where the government came in to the public schools and told the school to feed children tater tots, hot dogs, pizza, french fries?
Report Post »APatriotFirst
Posted on June 6, 2011 at 10:26pmthose composed of predominantly lower-income neighborhoods and communities
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If I am not mistaken, these folks always congragate within the city limits where they have easy access to cashing their checks and close to pawn shops. Plenty of stores around.
Report Post »Michelle O……..just FYI….not all grocery stores are in a mall.
patriotgamer
Posted on June 6, 2011 at 10:29pm…because one of the things that is wrong right now is that the government does not fund enough programs with good intentions.
Tyranny. When the government no longer has the consent of the people, but continues to act, that is tyranny.
Report Post »jzs
Posted on June 6, 2011 at 10:52pmTen million bucks is a lot. And it’s being spent on what? To provide poor people with an alternative to gas station food? Maybe that would allow the rural poor to buy healthier foods. And it would support farmer’s markets that helps small farmers sell their produce, and maybe stay in business.
But as someone said, who cares about the diet of the poor and small farmers? That’s communism. I know Jesus said all that stuff about helping the poor in the Holy Bible. Yaddah, yaddah. We all know that what Jesus really meant was that on Earth, we should elect people who make sure that Christians in government give no money to the poor, but instead make sure that the United States of America supports the wealthiest few, who already own 95% of the country (don’t even start with the Bible quotes about the rich).
For example, right now oil companies are making record profits. Thank God! It’s a little tough at the pump for you and me, but Exxon is posting record profits, as is the Will of God. They’re not hiring people but they are making more money than ever in history. And the US government is giving them ONLY five billion dollars a year in subsidies.
Instead redistributing the wealth to those people in rural areas we should be giving more to the oil companies. Instead of $5,000,000,000 we could be giving them $5,010,000,000.
If we did that, we‘d be doing God’s work, and He would lay blessing upon our land for the offering unto Him.
stifroc
Posted on June 6, 2011 at 11:08pmShe is just a flat out mean old lady.
Report Post »When she gets gray and rickety she’ll be sitting on her porch screaming “Git off mah lawn!” to all the neighborhood kids.
Teaparty-grammy
Posted on June 6, 2011 at 11:18pmFood desert? MOO-chelle’s head is a MENTAL desert. Our “Let ‘em eat tofu” would-be queen!
Report Post »seeker9
Posted on June 6, 2011 at 11:19pmI know of a nearby city, where a new supermarket was opened in a run down area of the city. It was promptly robbed. And robbed again, and again. Unfortunately, the business ultimately failed. Criminals just do not care if it is a food dessert.
Report Post »Teaparty-grammy
Posted on June 6, 2011 at 11:22pm@chickenlittle posted: “Just last month or so it was all over MSM that the FDA didn’t have the money to properly inspect foreign food coming into the country or even all of our own products for safety”
Not to worry. As long as we follow the guidelines on MOO-chelle’s food chart, we will all die healthy.
Report Post »Honestly, I thought Nancy Pelosi was queen of the Moonbats, but I’m beginning to think MOO-chelle could give her a run for her money for the Moonbat title . . .
D0ntTread0nMe
Posted on June 6, 2011 at 11:25pmThis is all such hogwash, food desert… bah humbug!!!
Report Post »http://www.mythoughtsfromthemiddle.blogspot.com
Teaparty-grammy
Posted on June 6, 2011 at 11:26pm@jzs. You really DO live in a different world from the rest of us don’t you, you ignorant little troll? This story had absolutely NOTHING to do with religion, so you are way off-topic and abusing the forum. Why don’t you go home and play with yourself? I know that is probably what you are best at.
Report Post »independentvoteril
Posted on June 6, 2011 at 11:36pmCould Michelle point out a FOOD DESERT in CHICAGO?? they have public transportation.. sidewalks and can get off their fat rears and walk to the store.. I did when I lived in the city.. There is a reason they don’t have FOOD STORES in some neighborhoods .. between the stealing and the min. wage they can’t afford to stay open.. so they close down.. it would make more sense to STOP food stamps and have the government pick out the foods they want the people getting food stamps to eat and deliver it to them.. it would solve the problem of them SELLING their food stamps too..
Report Post »AOL_REFUGEE
Posted on June 6, 2011 at 11:52pm“This uptick in government investment coincides with the belief that these food deserts contribute to obesity.”
That’s IT? We spend millions based on a BELIEF instead of facts?
When will this insanity end?
Answer: In 2012, hopefully and changefully.
Besides, doesn‘t this go against the Obimbos’ nature to have everything approved by the United Nations first?
Which only goes to show that the spaces between Barassbackwards and Moochelle Obimbo’s ears are BRAIN deserts.
Report Post »seeker9
Posted on June 6, 2011 at 11:56pm@JZS
You don’t actually think that if oil companies were taxed more, that it would reduce the cost of gas, do you? Last I checked, they pay what the law required them to pay. (Unlike C Rangel.)
Report Post »jzs
Posted on June 6, 2011 at 11:56pmTeaparty-grammy, helping the poor doesn’t have anything to do with religion?
Well, okay, in that case I guess I wasn’t talking about your religion, I was talking about Christianity. The words of Christ.
Report Post »Mikhail Kennedy
Posted on June 7, 2011 at 12:10amJZS
Report Post »You just don’t get the concept of Christian charity do you. Charity is giving freely to help those in need which Americans do more than anybody else. Govt giving my money to somebody is simply theft. I want to choose whom I will help, and the more the govt steals from me the less I have to help whom I believe is worthy of charity. You are a socialist tool.
Thatsitivehadenough
Posted on June 7, 2011 at 12:14amMichelle Obama: Mrs. Commie-In-Chief.
These people have NO BOUNDARIES WHATSOEVER!
And liberals are IDIOTS for supporting anything they do.
Report Post »AWAKENEDAWARE
Posted on June 7, 2011 at 12:26amSince 1994, the number of farmers markets included in the USDA National Farmers Market Directory has expended more than three-fold, rising from 1,755 to 6,132.
Do you guys even READ this shite? You can’t EXPEND, and rise. I wish you could, I’d be 160 lbs again.
Report Post »ABC123
Posted on June 7, 2011 at 12:52amHow about doing something about genetically altered food:
Monday, June 06, 2011
Report Post »by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Editor of NaturalNews.com (See all articles…)
Do you recall which country was targeted in this recent e.coli scare? Spain. Why Spain? You may recall that leaked cables from Wikileaks revealed that Spain resisted the introduction of GMOs into its agricultural system, even as the U.S. government covertly threatened political retaliation for its resistance. This false blaming of Spain for the e.coli deaths is probably retaliation for Spain’s unwillingness to jump on the GMO bandwagon. (http://www.naturalnews.com/030828_G…)
That’s the real story behind the economic devastation of Spain’s vegetable farmers. It’s one of the subplots being pursued alongside this e.coli superbug scheme.
Food as weapons of war – created by Big Pharma?
By the way, the most likely explanation of where this strain of e.coli was bioengineered is that the drug giants came up with it in their own labs. Who else has access to all the antibiotics and equipment needed to manage the targeted mutations of potentially thousands of e.coli colonies? The drug companies are uniquely positioned to both carry out this plot and profit from it. In other words, they have the means and the motive to engage in precisely such actions.
101
Posted on June 7, 2011 at 1:24amMO needs to get off this food kick and quit spending our tax dollars for the black votes in the inner cities!
Report Post »Teaparty-grammy
Posted on June 7, 2011 at 2:14am@ jzs who posted:
Posted on June 6, 2011 at 11:56pm “Teaparty-grammy, helping the poor doesn’t have anything to do with religion? Well, okay, in that case I guess I wasn’t talking about your religion, I was talking about Christianity. The words of Christ.”
If you are going to presume to quote me, you ignorant little liberal puke, at least get it right. This story was not ABOUT “feeding the poor”, it was about MOO-chelle Obama spending ten million dollars of our money to promote her idiotic “food desert” notion where none exists. HELLO? People living in rural areas ALREADY grow their own food. They don’t need MOO-chelle telling them how to do it. This has nothing at all to do with religion, and you should stop dragging Jesus into the middle of every conversation. I doubt he has little to do with anthing you are involved in, so climb down off your freaking high horse and STFU already.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on June 7, 2011 at 2:20amThe Farmers’ Market Promotion Program (FMPP)<<< must be a joke. Unless they are going to be selling beer, chips, Newport's,crack and fried chicken it is a waste of money. But MO knows this……….
Report Post »Thevoice
Posted on June 7, 2011 at 2:33amThis is going to be fun .Deep. deep inside the Obama government building works thousands of high paid desk squatters . Better know as the Governments top secret “generation 4 mega bite me” Web designers . These highly trained do nothings work on a daily bases putting government collected data of every stupid thing you could possibly think of .On the web .In the dazzling form of useless government web sights. At the end of one long hallway in a unmarked office are locked away Queen Obama’s top secret fundamental society changing projects …Such as “MyPlate” and “Fit Kids” .Other big projects such as Climate change and turtle crossings and the study of polar snow…As we saw last week they are keep secret and under lock and key until the projects are released on a ultimate Government web sight…Now the next office is a drab gray office with a desk and nothing more in it. This is the office of Tim Gethner….Tims job is to cover up the Billions the government is short every week on the payroll. On a typical day tim adds up the daily stack of payments he is usually short between 2 and 4 billion dollars a day.Around 3 pm Tim make his call to Bernenke at the fed so they know how much more money to print to cover the Obama government payroll checks. Tim is always angry .Stating as in MYPLATE the future cost of keeping everyone that work on it and employed and in government money for the rest of their lives is staggering. Tim states the Food Desert project will end up in b
Report Post »AOL_REFUGEE
Posted on June 7, 2011 at 2:58amIs that all Thunder Thighs Obama can think about? Food?
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on June 7, 2011 at 4:47amI wonder how much it cost the US Government…. er, I mean us tax payers, for that nifty new “plate” design, replacing the old school food pyramid.
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on June 7, 2011 at 4:49am“Food deserts are defined as areas with limited access to affordable and nutritious food….”
Report Post »____________
Isnt there a Super-Walmart every 10th block in this country? If you can ride a bicycle, you have access to nutricious food.
79USMC83
Posted on June 7, 2011 at 5:40amLMAO!!! So what this will do is take AWAY business from the conveniace stores who along with grocery stores have very LOW profit margins to begin with!!! I live near a very small town in Georgia that has a BIG Government housing population. These people ALL have cars sitting out front, we have a nice produce business, Oh and a McDonald’s too !!! Wal-Mart 20 minutes away in another town. WHOM is going to MAKE them MAKE the choice on were to shop and WHAT to buy?? I forgot to mention the Produce store sells hand dipped ICE CREAM LOL!!!! What a joke $10 million for a nation of 300 million people will NOT pay for SQUAT !!!
Report Post »mrst
Posted on June 7, 2011 at 7:33amSince we moved to the Carolinas–lived in both now–I will vouch for something here–there are in fact many people who live in areas where they cannot possibly walk to a store and have no public transportation and I would not be surprised if they didn’t have cars–if you see what they live in–you’d be surprised if they do have cars. the county our SC house is in–the teachers literally send bagged lunches home with the kids on Friday thinking those kids may not eat all weekend. My first reaction to it was shock–and a question–WHY do they stay here where they cannot find jobs? I think there are many small businesses, very small, but there truly are folks here that have got to be generation-ally living off handouts. It does not appear to be in their DNA to improve their situation by moving on. Since we moved from WI all the way to Fargo in pursuit of a job and to OK when my hubby was young in pursuit of work in the early 80s–I know what its like to do that– and to have that kind of uprooted feeling all your life–I can understand wanting to stay by family and home–and some of them own their ‘shacks’ but I don’t think most do– it seems they accept their lot and figure its easier to be poor where you know folks than where you don’t. The problem is no the food desert its the folks who insist on beating dead horses, that have long stopped walking.
Report Post »Jerseygalnny
Posted on June 7, 2011 at 7:57amMany already take vouchers (issued by the county to food stamp recipients) for fresh fruits and vegetables at the area farmers’ markets.
Report Post »gotta light
Posted on June 7, 2011 at 8:35amPerhaps Madwoman Michelle should learn to control her husbands eating and smoking habits before she sets out to control others! THIS WOMAN IS PURE EVIL! DO AS THEY SAY NOT AS THEY DO BECAUSE THEY DON’T SET TOO WELL OF AN EXAMPLE!!!
PURE EVIL I SAY!
Hey bud gotta light?
Report Post »jkendal
Posted on June 7, 2011 at 8:36amMy contempt for this woman’s attempt to control what I can and cannot eat simply cannot be measured.
Report Post »jzs
Posted on June 7, 2011 at 9:58amSeeker, I was talking about, and said, “subsidies” for oil companies, not taxes. There’s a difference. And since oil companies are making record profits, AND the price of gas is going up, I agree there isn’t much of a connection between the two.
TP Grammy, I feel Christian love in your every clever insult and hateful remark (not).
Mikhail Kennedy says, “Giving my money to someone else is stealing.” Mikhail, let’s understand something here with a single example. How about the roads you drive on to go to work, the grocery store or wherever. Who paid for those and who pays to have them maintained? You pay a little in taxes certainly, but unless you make a quarter million bucks a year or more, you pay a whole lot less for the benefits of living in the US than the wealthy don’t you? So, YOU are stealing from the rich. The wealth is being redistributed to YOU.
And government aid to disaster areas like Joplin? That’s stealing too?
Anyway, you seem fine with letting the rich pay for your schools, fire department, street lights or whatever because that‘s somebody else’s money you are beneficiary of. You’re being hypocritical in my view.
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on June 7, 2011 at 10:10amSo, it is now fully unveiled – the Constitution is irrelevant. All you have to do is divide powers up among bureaucracies and let them pass policies and programs to do whatever it is you wanted but could not do due to that nagging scrap of skin – The United States Constitution.
Throw em all out.
The next pres is gonna be BUSY – I mean BUUUUUUUUUUUSY replacing all the heads of these bureaucracies and cleaning house. Can you imagine the whining we’ll here from this chicago-thug mob when they are told it is time to go?? LOLOL
Report Post »bcshealy
Posted on June 7, 2011 at 10:50amYou bet your sweet bippy! And for anyone who pays cash, I bet their prices will be over the roof. When will or can our representatives STOP this continued foolishness and waste?????
Report Post »Vickie Dhaene
Posted on June 7, 2011 at 12:02pmAlso, just how many health departments will now have to be created to enforce FDA standards.
Report Post »barak hussein osama arafat
Posted on June 7, 2011 at 12:45pmThat’s Queen Chewbaca to you, whitey.
Report Post »mikem1969
Posted on June 7, 2011 at 2:30pmThere are plenty of farmers that do that already around where I live, and they do it of their own accord. The federal mismanagement government needs to stop subsidizing farms and farmers because the fed does not need to be anywhere near anyones’ food or food sources.
Report Post »starman70
Posted on June 7, 2011 at 3:55pmPlease inform, “Moochelle,my Belle” that I am going to increase my intake of HAM, PORK CHOPS, RARE PRIME RIB, RARE STEAKS AND OTHER HIGH CHOLESTEROL FOODS. I will also drink much more BEER, SOFTDRINKS AND EVERY OTHER NON-HELATHY CONCOCTION I CAN FIND.
I, then, expect that your husband’s health care plan (OBUMMERCARE) to take care of me, keep me in good health, no matter my diet and choice of beverages, until I reach the ripe old age of 100 or even higher. Please tell MOOCHELLE that I expect this care to be totally free. I expect the best care possible provided by the nation’s finest physycians in the best hospitals in the nation. MOOCHELLE, please tell your husband that not only do I expect to receive the care from these doctors, BUT I expect to be transported to and from those facilities where these doctors practice ABSOLUTELY FREE no matter how far distant from my home they may be.
After all, that is what you, your husband and every member of Congress get and will get, at taxpayer expense, for the rest of your lives.
I know, without a shadow of a doubt, that I will receive all this just for just the asking. As a citizen, I will be free to eat, drink and do anything I want and receive all my mediical care ABSOLUTELY FREE!
MOOCHELLE, don’t you agree that I deserve all thes benefits? Don’t you agree that every American citizen deserves the same quality care and benefits? MOOCHELLE MY BELLE, please answer YES.
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