Carrots are high in sugar.
Margo G. Wootan, the center’s director of nutrition policy, called healthy vending machines “one of the hottest national trends no one has heard of.”
-That’s because no one is eating that crap.
“”People talk about the nanny state gone amok, but they don’t seem to mind when it’s the food industry that is dictating food policy by offering only big portions and junky options in vending machines,” Wootan said.”
-Pay attention, dim bulb. Nobody in the vending machine business is compelling me to buy their product, nor do they have a monopoly on my food options. the Nanny State, however, has both the power to compel (if unjustly) and punish for not compelling.
BTW, the vending machines at my job have a few of those “healthy options” in them. Nobody buys them, and they usually get pulled by the refill guy after a month or two.
I see destroyed vending machines in their future.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
and
Nanny State PING!
Those vegetable vending machines best be spitting out “organic” roots for the insertion of folding money or taking plastic, otherwise I see them going the way of those US Postal Service stamp machines that only gave change in Sacajawea ‘gold’ dollar coins.
[I gotta bunch, keep ‘em with my Billy Beer collection]
Funny how even after removing the stamp vending machines, the lines for stamps ain’t any faster and the price of stamps still goes up.
I am late but I have to reply since is affects me.
First, whatever happened to Kittleman’s proposal to get rid of that crud about not allowing sale of sugary drinks on any county/Kolumbia property? He even mentioned that in the platform.
This is more of the same.
They will find themselves wasting tons of money as all those healthy things sour and turn to disgusting germ traps. That is one of the beauties of “processed” food. They will be throwing out food left and right, even if people dove in to buy as much as they could.
And in reality, trust has nothing to do with it. It's THEIR decision to make, not yours. (The only caveat there being that if you own the machines, you have the right to fill them with what you want)
"People talk about the nanny state gone amok, but they don't seem to mind when it's the food industry that is dictating food policy by offering only big portions and junky options in vending machines," Wootan said.
Uh, stupid lady, maam? There is no such thing as the "food industry" in the context of this discussion. Most vending machines are owned by independents, and if more people wanted carrots than Doritos, then carrots there would be. Vending machines are expensive and locations hard to come by; no halfway decent operator would leave chutes filled with stuff when people want other stuff more. You're so stupid that you can't distinguish between meddling based on your sanctimonious, condescending attitude, and supply and demand at work. (And these are the people who supposedly are smart enough to "lead" us)