Did they seriously say that they are going to try to eliminate "food deserts" in rural areas????
I couldn’t POSSIBLY comment on this.....or I would be kicked off this forum.
They will just “depopulate” the rural areas since they are full of teabagging gun nuts.
“eliminating food deserts” means....making everyone live in a crowded city, where they can ride the bus or metro, and find food REALLY close....(Hey, how’s that hope and change cr*p going?)
You and me both. I’m about 20 miles from town so when will MO get those 20 grocery stores built for me? I’m still waiting on that pony her hubby promised.
Of course this program will eventually need a Healthy Food Czar.
I nominate the Booger King.
Does having to walk all the way to the fridge for a beer count?
I thought the government provided breakfast and lunch (and in some cases, dinner) for all those below a certain income. If that is the case, it is the fault of the government if they are not getting enough fruits/veggies per day.
Uh that would be all of them Me-shell. What the devil is a rural neighborhood anyway? If you are rural you are, by definition, not in a neighborhood.
Its a ridiculous notion in 2010 to put supermarkets that close to everyone.
Nowadays, supermarkets are much larger than when I was a kid in the 60’s, its the old economy of scale. Not only that, only large supermarkets can provide the variety that people expect nowadays.
The real problem is just the choices that people voluntarily make to buy an excess of junk food or sell their food stamps for drug money.
Perhaps a federal policy as to what kinds of food that recipients can buy on the taxpayers’ dime and a crack down on selling foodstamps can address the problem that is being considered.
I live in a pretty big city, and it’s over a mile to the nearest Harris Teeter. I do not patronize it because they’re a bunch of corporate types.
Is she also going to ban Big Gulps and Snickers from 7/11?
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.
Food marketing is highly competitive. If there is a market for supermarkets and healthy food stores, it would most likely be there already. The problem is a lot of food deserts are in urban areas where it is dangerous to operate a business, particularly the type which is open 24-7. Are those funds going to pay insurance premiums for supermarkets or farmer’s markets in high-crime areas? For security? Are they willing to put local small markets out of business because they don’t carry the “right” healthy foods for the majority ethnic group in the area?
If they want people to eat more healthy foods, they could start by controlling what kind of food is paid by welfare benefits. Our church maintains a type of grocery store for helping those who are in need to financial help to buy food. It doesn’t cost those people anything but the selection is quite limited. There are some convenience foods such as soups, pasta and bread but only rarely anything in the way of junk food. It stocks meat, milk, fresh and canned vegetables and fruits, staples. The food they take home is healthy and no-nonsense.
When you try to go to the atlas the page is not found. LOL Site does not work.
I live in “the,” desert. MO can take a hike, we will starve before we take anything from chewbacca.
A whole mile from a supermarket! How do they survive?
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.
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
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