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Michelle Obama: Walmart Fulfilling Its ‘Moral Obligations’ by Selling Healthy Foods
CNSNews.com ^ | March 1, 2013 | Fred Lucas

Posted on 03/02/2013 5:11:07 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

(CNSNews.com) – First lady Michelle Obama is praising what has often been one of the left’s biggest targets, Walmart, for helping to fight obesity and “food deserts” in the United States.

“At Walmart, you can believe that as America’s largest retailer, you have an obligation that goes far beyond the bottom line,” Obama said Thursday at a Walmart in Springfield, Mo.

“You know that every day, with the products you sell, you’re helping parents get by on a budget -- which is what everybody in this country is trying to do. You’re helping kids get the nutrition they need to learn and grow and fulfill their God-given potential and those aren’t just business opportunities. They’re moral obligations -- truly. They’re responsibilities to the health of our families and the future of our next generation.”

Mrs. Obama has made fighting obesity, particularly childhood obesity, her top cause as first lady. She talked about how Walmart, the nation’s largest retailer, has stepped up to offer healthier options, and she insisted that other retailers must do the same thing.

“In the coming months and years, we need more American businesses to step up and meet those responsibilities,” the first lady said. “We need more companies to do what Walmart has done -- to dig deep and to find new ways to make money by giving families better information and healthier choices.”

Many liberal organizations such as labor unions and President Barack Obama’s base, have long criticized Walmart for its non-union stores. A top donor to Obama’s campaigns, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) supported a nationwide protest against Walmart last November.

But on Thursday, Mrs. Obama was full of praise for Walmart:

“You have opened 86 new stores -- one of the most important calls, most important work to eliminating food deserts, because you’ve opened these stores, including this one, in underserved communities,” she said.

“And now you’ve launched your ‘Great for You’ seal that I got to see firsthand that helps customers immediately spot healthy items on the shelf -- so they don’t have to spend hours poring over those fine-print labels that you can barely understand to figure out which foods are healthy and which ones aren’t.”

Walmart’s “Great for You” seal is a front-of-package icon that will appear on more than 1,300 Great Value and Marketside food and beverages sold in Walmart’s U.S. stores.

Walmart also has committed itself to improve the nutritional quality of Walmart’s Great Value brand and national food brands by reducing sodium by 25 percent, added sugars by 10 percent and removing all industrially produced trans fats by the end of 2015.

It has promised to increase Americans’ access to fresh, healthier and affordable food by opening between 275 and 300 new stores in urban and rural food deserts by the end of 2016.

And the retailer plans to help Americans better understand nutrition and healthier eating options by increasing its charitable support for nutrition programs.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: children; fooddeserts; greatforyouseal; greatvalue; health; letsmove; michelleobama; moochelle; nannystate; nutrition; obesity; salt; sodium; sugar; transfats; walmart
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1 posted on 03/02/2013 5:11:17 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Yeah. Like when it’s your $300k/year job at the University to convince poor people to go to a county hospital because they had no insurance.

That kind of “moral?” You. Bit.........$&@


2 posted on 03/02/2013 5:14:38 PM PST by Gaffer
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

The Congo butt Moocher is chastising Walmart that she herself obviously indulges in consuming her share of at food.


3 posted on 03/02/2013 5:15:00 PM PST by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

A common sense set of moral obligations would have the First Wookie STFU, shop at Walmart and stay in her gov’t funded housing waiting for her EBT to be recharged at the first of the month.


4 posted on 03/02/2013 5:15:22 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
"You know that every day, with the products you sell, you’re helping parents get by on a budget..."

A budget...something Moochelle knows nothing about. And no, Michelle, I'm not taking back the box of Whoppers or Cadbury Creme Eggs I bought at Walmart's yesterday.

5 posted on 03/02/2013 5:20:15 PM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Wal-Mart gave the 0bamugabe campaign a million dollars.

It is my moral duty to never darken their door again.

6 posted on 03/02/2013 5:21:30 PM PST by TigersEye (The irresponsible should not be leading the responsible.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

This con artist is telling people about WHO has a moral obligation to the country?

She is filthy.


7 posted on 03/02/2013 5:21:37 PM PST by Truth2012
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

OK, Walmart will stock it but will the people buy it?


8 posted on 03/02/2013 5:22:09 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (THE SOUND OF MUSIC at the POTEET THEATRE in OKC! See our murals before they are painted over!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Nice of Michelle to impose her moral code on others - who said the age of judgmentalism is dead???.....


9 posted on 03/02/2013 5:22:53 PM PST by Intolerant in NJ
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10 posted on 03/02/2013 5:24:11 PM PST by deport
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Don’t shop at Wallmart so won’t have to eat or drink that crap!


11 posted on 03/02/2013 5:24:43 PM PST by dalereed
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Listening to Moochelle talking about somebody else’ “moral obligation” is vomit-inducing.


12 posted on 03/02/2013 5:24:51 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("Somebody has to be courageous enough to stand up to the bullies." --Dr. Ben Carson)
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To: Paladin2
Great for You’ seal that I got to see firsthand that helps customers immediately spot healthy items on the shelf -- so they don’t have to spend hours poring over those fine-print labels that you can barely understand to figure out which foods are healthy and which ones aren’t.” My gosh how did I ever manage to raise a family without this woman telling me what to eat...I am surprised we survived...
13 posted on 03/02/2013 5:26:09 PM PST by JoanneSD
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

someone needs to muzzle the first wookie. seriously. wtf business is it of hers? NO BUSINESS.


14 posted on 03/02/2013 5:30:24 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

When is this witch going to stop lecturing us?

She’s as bad as Nurse Bloomberg.


15 posted on 03/02/2013 5:32:05 PM PST by sauropod (I will not comply)
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To: JoanneSD
And now the Mayor of NYC is advising on weight loss.

Mayor Bloomberg says to lose weight you have to eat less


16 posted on 03/02/2013 5:33:20 PM PST by deport
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I have a hunch momma Obama is gearing up to run for president in 2016 (they are enjoying the perks of the WH too much to leave).
Of course she will have to beat Hillary and as such is attempting to befriend Hillary’s power base, Walmart.


17 posted on 03/02/2013 5:34:02 PM PST by Kenny500c
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Michelle Obama does not define morality.

Also, didn’t Michelle Obama shove the poor off onto other hospitals in her “job” in Chicago? How moral is that behavior?


18 posted on 03/02/2013 5:37:23 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I like when she said that she thought “liquor stores should stock MORE fruits and vegetables”. WHAT!!!!!

I have not been in a large number of liquor stores but I don’t recall seeing ANY fruits and vegetables in ANY of them!


19 posted on 03/02/2013 5:39:33 PM PST by Ditter
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Silly me. As a store, I thought their “moral obligations” began and ended with stocking stuff their customers wanted. These statist assholes really piss me off when they can’t shake the idea of behavior modification going bass ackwards! As customers/citizens it is WE who should be modifying THEIR behavior as stores and as governments, not the other way around.


20 posted on 03/02/2013 5:40:50 PM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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