Don’t mess with stuff I LOVE!! And, I love food.
There is NO other fedfuk agency that I DESPISE & LOATHE more than those truly evil bastards, the FDA. I wish a sinkhole would swallow up that building with everyone in it, and send all off them straight to the pits of hell.
Don’t forget, it was my comment to “bomb” some busybody faggot asshole statist prick (who didn’t like his neighbor’s vegetable garden), which caused the men in blue from Chatham to come knockin’ on my door.
Now …. do I, myself, actually avoid at least 90% of the supermarket? Yes. I shop ‘along the edges’ ….. fruits, veggies, dairy, meats. I truly and rarely venture into the ‘aisles’.
Are FAR too many Americans fatfuks? Yes. Is the SAD (Standard American Diet) truly atrocious? Yes. Does the SAD have horrible effects on health? Yes. Do I wish people made better choices? Yes. But …. but … THEY SHOULDN’T BE FORCED TO DO SO BY A CONTROL FREAK GESTAPO GOVERNMENT!!
Food choices ….. one of the last freedoms we have, and they want to take even that away.
It was a Vegetable Vendor who set himself on fire which started the “Arab Spring”. Hey, government! Keep fucking with our food choices …. and we just might burn the motherfucker down …(which is well past due, anyway)
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With nation’s school lunches fundamentally transformed, Michelle O eyes ‘talking shopping carts’
WASHINGTON, D.C. – First, Michelle Obama seized control of your child’s school lunch and made it “healthy.” Now, the First Lady wants to change the way you buy groceries.
A new 80-page report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture explains that federal bureaucrats hope to use a variety of tools to modify the way Americans select food items at the supermarket.
The goal is to steer consumers toward fruits and vegetables – and away from sugar- and fat-laden items. The plan is in line with “Michelle Obama’s stated second term agenda to ‘impact the nature of food in grocery stores,’” reports FreeBeacon.com.
While the feds’ plan deals mostly with the 47 million Americans who participate in the government’s food stamp program, it would indirectly affect all consumers.
According to FreeBeacon.com, the federal busybodies want to provide food-stamp shoppers with “incentives” for making healthy food choices – such as discounts or free movie tickets – and even talking shopping carts that will notify them when they’ve selected enough healthy items. [Stucky Note: They ALREADY get free food! Now we gotta give them MORE free shit?? Fuckmedead!!!!!]
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The high-tech carts – which would cost every grocery store about $30,000 to provide – would be physically divided and color coded to help consumers select approved food items. It would also “have a system installed so that when the shopping cart reaches its healthy ‘threshold’ it would congratulate the customer,” FreeBeacon.com reports.
In case that’s not creepy enough, the feds want grocery store employees to serve as government “ambassadors” who can “redirect” food stampers toward healthy items by explaining the various incentive programs and nutritional information.
Michelle Obama and her minions also envision turning the grocery store into a “classroom” where shoppers can receive cooking tips and advice from dieticians – presumably ones employed by the federal government.
The feds also want stores to use better signage, lighting and product placement so customers can easily find the food their government thinks they should be eating. They also want stores to set aside more shelf space for the government-preferred products.
While the feds could easily ensure healthier purchases for food stamp participants by clamping down on which products are available to them, the government busybodies want consumers to think they’re making these choices all by themselves.
The feds are following “the principle of self-attribution (which) suggests that when an individual perceives they have the ability to freely choose between options, they are more likely to be satisfied with the choice they make,” the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) report states.
So even though Michelle Obama will be limiting your choices and “nudging” you in the “proper” direction, she wants you to think you’re doing these things voluntarily.
Some grocery store owners probably won’t want to subject their customers to this “Big Brother” shopping experience, but they may not have a choice.
The FreeBeacon.com article ends with this cryptic line: “The USDA envisions that supermarkets, superstores, small grocers, specialty stores, and farmers markets would adopt changes in the future through an agency program.”
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CALL FOR PROPOSALS: For TBP Engineers to develop a Talking Voting Booth …. to remind Obama voters what fucking assholes they are for voting for him.
I must be asleep still.
The nightmares just keep coming.
I keep reading FreeBeacon.com as FreeBacon.com. lol
Sorry,, Moocow.
If she’s really serious, how about free gym memberships instead of free movie tickets?
Don’t Amurikans sit on their asses enough as it is?!?
Free Shitters should get a card that will allow them to draw rations from some central location. Beans, rice, milk, eggs, cheese, some type of meat, soup, whatever… the basics. You want anything extra, like fucking lobster tails or fillet, then you can pay for that shit yourself.
MOOOOsh should mind her fucking business. Nobody voted for her ass for anything. Why she should have any say in any-fucking-thing that goes on in the US is a complete mystery to me.
Now she’s got the FDA and the AG department on our asses to force us to buy what THEY want us to… but are trying to fool folks into thinking they’re making “choices” themselves…
Federalizing grocery store employees… “ambassadors”… “dieticians”… $30,000 talking shopping carts… can’t WAIT to pay for all this shit with my taxes…
Just fuck all these fucking fucks…
I’m just gonna grow all our food here and eat that and screw all these collaborating statist pukes…
30K shopping carts? The Swarzers will have a field day wit dat shit!
The simplest solution is end all farm subsidies. But that corporate welfare won’t end ’til Janet raises the interest rates and they’re forced to cut spending.
There is a tremendous diabetes epidemic brewing and it alone could bankrupt the Feds (and let’s not forget about all the other diseases brought on by cheap subsidized ingredients that make people think, “why cook?”).
To her defense, Michelle is trying to “do something” about the problem. It’s just that at the federal level, there isn’t much she can do except throw more borrowed money at the problem to counteract the borrowed money that makes bad edibles (can’t call that stuff “food”) cheap.
The problem can only be solved at the local level: put a community garden in at your church, get farmers to start farms on empty lots in the cities, get another farmers’ market started in your town, etc. Hell, all you have to do is buy from local farmers and magic happens: they grow more good stuff. There are so many idle people in this country who should be out growing food for others, planting fruit trees everywhere, preparing real food in the schools, etc.
Just more creative subsidies IMHO. Maybe we don’t have enough.