Posted on 02/26/2017 1:01:14 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
It appears that one of the most visible achievements of Michelle Obama’s legacy as first lady will live on in the Trump White House: her garden.
First lady Melania Trump announced last week that she would preserve the White House vegetable garden planted in 2009. It came as a surprise to many nutrition advocates and food policy experts, who had expressed fears that Michelle Obama’s garden and the health and nutrition initiatives it symbolized could be endangered under the Trump administration.
Some advocates, including Michael Jacobson, president of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, are lauding the new first lady for expressing a commitment to the garden.
“I would give them credit for keeping the garden,” Jacobson told The Huffington Post, “and I hope they eat some of the food that comes from that garden.”
Still, individuals like Jacobson are trying not to read too much into it, given the scant details yet known of the Trump administration’s food policy plans.
“Best to wait and see,” New York University nutrition professor Marion Nestle said by email. “It’s hard to keep up with alarms from the White House, let alone potential alarms.”
There is legitimate cause for concern, however....
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Yeah. Right.
Like they really expect us to believe that The Wookie and the Mozlem Faggot spiced up their diet of Waygu Beef and Lobster Tail with some fresh zucchini and pea pods from the garden that they picked themselves.
I’m surprised that there wasn’t already a kitchen garden of long standing or even an historic one at the White House, myself. No reason to tear it out in and of itself. But, the politicization of food is just ridiculous. Executive branch food “policy,” lol? Only a nanny-stater would deem that important. Want to fight obesity? How do you do that, since it’s a highly personal thing as far as life choices? Exercise is already being encouraged, healthy eating is as well. This is not a dictatorship no matter how badly the left would like it to be. People make bad choices, but it’s worse to try to force them into making different choices.
It’s just a way of conditioning people for the time
when they drag out the Kim Jong-Un haircut bowls.
These are the people who almost made it forever impossible to get decent movie theater popcorn with butter. They have also done a lot of damage to ballpark hot dogs and hamburgers.
I hate them almost as much as I hate Southern Poverty Law Center. And any "news outlet" which uses either as a source can not be trusted.
It was my understanding that the vegetables can’t be eaten because the fertilizer is treated human waste. Good for grass and such only.
Snowflake tears are delicious! .,l. Keep on winnin! ...
The Obamas did not tend the garden. They had a professional gardener. It was a show garden.
Michelle wasn’t wrong to advocate better nutrition. But the mandate approach was insulting to school dietitians; and, the lack of taste in school-provided food and feeling hungry, resulted in many poor kids relying on snack food rather than school food.
Why It Matters What President Trump Eats >>>>>>>>>
Dear President Trump. Please keep government out of my mouth.
Garden vegetables? Did they find Obama’s secret grow room yet?
Just as long as the line item in the Whitehouse portion of the Executive Branch budget for personnel and supplies for the garden at taxpayers expense is cut out then it should be “supported”.
Trump eats the MSM for lunch.....
OMG.
The garden is in trouble, the guy that tended it was deported last week
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