Are you in a "Food Desert"? MO wants to "help" you . . .

Let's Move ^ | Let's Move

[Irenic]

hahahaha!
This has me wondering about that speech Michelle Obama gave—food desserts, everybody wondered wth is food desserts.

I guess this means she uses a TOTUS, too.

Food desert would make more sense than food dessert, imo.

College educated FLOTUS read wrong?

Well, this is the conclusion I’m drawing, maybe I’m late on realizing her mistake, the *snap* just happened for me.

[anglian]

MS. BARNES: —and to prepare a healthy meal—meals for their student population. So, it includes issues like that. It’s received widespread support. We’re looking for additional support and additional funding for that. There’s another initiative—a big part of this—one of our important goals deals with access to healthy foods and vegetables in communities. There are some communities that are considered “food deserts,” places where people can’t get fresh, nutritious food, where there isn’t a grocery store in a mile or two within a person’s home.

MR. ALLEN: This is—this is usually inner cities, always inner cities?

MS. BARNES: It actually—it’s a—both an urban and a rural problem.

MR. ALLEN: Okay.

MS. BARNES: I think people find that really interesting when they think about rural America they think about farms and access to really—

MR. ALLEN: Mm-hmm.

MS. BARNES: —wonderful, healthy foods, but there are food deserts in rural areas, as well. What we want to do, and what the President included in his budget is an initiative to lev—use public funds to leverage even larger private dollars to put the grocery stores in communities where they don’t exist and also some really creative and innovative ways—for example, mobile grocery stores, where you’re moving those into communities where there’s not a lot of population density—

MS. BARNES: —but you want to make sure that people have access to those fresh fruits and vegetables.

MR. ALLEN: Funding—it’s not a small thing, but in addition to funding, is there anything specific you’re asking Congress to do? Are you try—trying to change any laws or just behavior?

MS. BARNES: Well, the Child Nutrition Reauthorization Bill is a key example.

MR. ALLEN: Mm-hmm.

MS. BARNES: Again, by providing additional resources for school breakfasts and school lunch, to make sure that they’re meeting the nutritional guidelines, reduced amounts of sugars and salt and other things, and the portions that we’re serving children at school. You know, we’ve been involved in the school lunch and breakfast program since World War II. So, that’s an area where the federal government actually has a role and has had a role for many, many decades. So, that’s an area that we think is very important and we hope Congress will act on, along with the resources for the healthy food financing initiative that I also mentioned.

Read more: POLITICO Interview: Melody Barnes
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0510/37257_Page4.html#ixzz0rAfXZhDW

[anglian]

US Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service online research tool called the Food Environment Atlas. http://maps.ers.usda.gov/FoodAtlas/foodenv5.aspx Meanwhile - Food Stamp Use Soars Across U.S., and Stigma Fades (Feds want to enroll 16 million more people) http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396100/posts

[Ellendra]

Perhaps a federal policy as to what kinds of food that recipients can buy on the taxpayers’ dime

Wisconsin has something like that alongside the foodstamp program. They give you something that looks sort of like a check, but it has a list of things on it, and you can ONLY use it for the things on that list.

[Ellendra]

What they mean by a food desert is an urban area where there are no grocery stores left.

This is about giving more ‘free stuff’ to well-fare crowd.

I know. Which makes it even more hilarious that they said "rural neighborhoods"!

[DontTreadOnMe2009]

which will invest $400 million a year to provide innovative financing to bring grocery stores to underserved areas and help places such as convenience stores and bodegas carry healthier food options.

---

Same o same o

“Invest” not spend

to get supermarkets to go back to where they fled from;

Why did they flee?

Ever been there and done that?

Then you’d know

[DontTreadOnMe2009]

You and me both. I’m about 20 miles from town so when will MO get those 20 grocery stores built for me?

---

Uh,

this plan is not for you guys.

[DontTreadOnMe2009]

Is she also going to ban Big Gulps and Snickers from 7/11?

Yes

Well ........

Maybe not Snickers

The family is crazy rich, might be donors.

Big Gulps don’t donate

They just give you brain freeze

unless you don’t have a brain.

[DontTreadOnMe2009]

What they mean by a food desert is an urban area where there are no grocery stores left.
This is about giving more ‘free stuff’ to well-fare crowd.

Enticing or forcing food chains to re-open or build new stores in areas they abandoned years ago. They left because they couldn’t afford the high cost of business in these areas. Shoplifting, burglary, and armed robberies made it too expensive to have stores in these area.

The only goal of this program is to retain the ‘obama’ vote.

---

This Yankee said it all, and best.

[wafflehouse]

More than 23 million Americans, including 6.5 million children, live in low-income urban and rural neighborhoods that are more than a mile from a supermarket. These communities, where access to affordable, quality, and nutritious foods is limited, are known as food deserts.

Maybe they can get their fat asses out there and walk to the store?

seriously, this is a problem? How did our ancestors ever survive?

[Plutarch]

I spoke to someone I know who was in a meeting with Obama officials just this week on this very project. The idea is to provide healthier nutrition choices for the people, to make for more productive agriculture, and to funnel money to liberal groups.

I'm not sure which of these laudable goals is the priority for the Administration.

[bgill]

the President included in his budget is an initiative to lev—use public funds to leverage even larger private dollars to put the grocery stores in communities where they don’t exist and also some really creative and innovative ways—for example, mobile grocery stores

Mobile grocery stores?!? What, like the milk man coming to your door or the ice cream truck? Oh, yeah, that's cost effective. Those trucks use gas so that's not very green for the environment especially now that he's clueless about plugging the hole in the Gulf.