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With nation’s school lunches fundamentally transformed, Michelle O eyes ‘talking shopping carts’
EAG News ^ | July 18, 2014 | Ben Velderman

Posted on 07/18/2014 12:48:41 PM PDT by yoe

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

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.

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Michelle needs to do more herself in the White House vegetable garden rather than hire gardeners....she needs day work. Both Obama's need to quit seeing America as south-side Chicago parasites on drugs, committing crimes, jobless expecting entitlements starting with food stamps...who elected this luxury loving woman to tell us what to do about food......I am not one of her subjects.
1 posted on 07/18/2014 12:48:41 PM PDT by yoe
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Do as I say, not as I do, cretins!!


2 posted on 07/18/2014 12:50:42 PM PDT by mothball
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I envision a nation full of damaged ex-talking shopping carts.


3 posted on 07/18/2014 12:50:54 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: yoe

Bitch be crazy.


4 posted on 07/18/2014 12:51:10 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: yoe

This woman has no authority. Why is she able to initiate any campaign on any issue?


5 posted on 07/18/2014 12:51:28 PM PDT by lurk
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A local grocery actually tried something similar with much fanfare a couple years back, their carts had a small LCD screen on the handle with a speaker that would announce specials and play an ad on the screen when you walked by certain displays. Within a couple months half the devices no longer worked and within six months they were quietly removed entirely. Carts go through a lot of punishment and are outside in all types of weather, not the place for delicate electronics.
6 posted on 07/18/2014 12:55:00 PM PDT by apillar
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I envision a nation full of damaged ex-talking shopping carts.

After forcing the grocery industry to spend tens of millions on new high-dollar shopping carts. Of course it will be the consumer who pays the final bill for it all.

7 posted on 07/18/2014 12:56:24 PM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" means something different to 0bama.)
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To: yoe

Hey, I have an idea how she can accomplish this at a lot less cost. Take the food the kids won’t eat from the school cafeterias and distribute it to the EBT card holders who will no longer be able to go to the grocery. They’ll either get healthy and lose weight or get a job.


8 posted on 07/18/2014 12:59:13 PM PDT by DeFault User
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To: TigersEye; Secret Agent Man

Full marks to both of you.


9 posted on 07/18/2014 1:00:19 PM PDT by alancarp
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To: yoe
Do we get to see a mechanical/electrical diagram of this contraption so that we can disconnect it?
10 posted on 07/18/2014 1:01:16 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: yoe

She should be more concerned about her own food intake.

On the other hand, it’s been said that “fat bottomed girls make the rockin’ world go ‘round.”


11 posted on 07/18/2014 1:01:38 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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There are people who would go along with this, so relieved of having to actually make ‘point of sale decisions all by themselves’. Naturally, the next step will be having the Carts tell you to buy from certain coporations, you know, the same corporations who just happened to donate the maximum amount to Barack campaign funds or deep pooling funds. If this experiment ever really happens, expect for some bored school kids to hack into the Cart’s memory and have strange data coming out. “Try our brand of Windex. Windex has performed well as shampoo, and is also the perfect soap to use in your dishwasher, Please Try It!”


12 posted on 07/18/2014 1:02:52 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: Jim Robinson

in the immortal words of Spinal Tap, “Big bottom...talk about mudflaps, my girl’s got ‘em”.


13 posted on 07/18/2014 1:03:09 PM PDT by rhoda_penmark
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To: mothball

“fundamentally changed”? Ask the kids how much they “love” the change:

http://www.google.com/search?q=kids+hate+michelle+obama’s+lunch&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&client=safari


14 posted on 07/18/2014 1:03:50 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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Look for a new nanny state agency where fired TSA agents will go through your shopping cart to check that you are only trying to purchase government “approved” items. Items not meeting Moochele’s approval will be removed before you are allowed to proceed to the checkout. Got that comrade?


15 posted on 07/18/2014 1:04:04 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The future must not belong to those who slander bacon.)
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To: TigersEye

Mooch must be getting a hefty kickback - er, “contribution” to the Obama Global Initiative - from the Talking Shopping Cart Manufacturers.


16 posted on 07/18/2014 1:04:28 PM PDT by Argus
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To: yoe

What planet did these people come from?


17 posted on 07/18/2014 1:04:55 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds)
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To: SandRat

A 20oz hammer from the store’s hardware dept works well.


18 posted on 07/18/2014 1:05:16 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (Some days you're the windshield, and some days you're the bug.)
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To: apillar

“not the place for delicate electronics. “

Neither is Moochelle’s face.


19 posted on 07/18/2014 1:05:54 PM PDT by ScottinVA (If it doesn't include border security, it isn't "reform." It's called "amnesty.")
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To: apillar

A cart would get a lot of punishment from me if it insisted on talking to me. I HATE machines that talk to me.


20 posted on 07/18/2014 1:07:44 PM PDT by glorgau
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