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.
Ms. Michelle ‘Let Them Eat Cake’ 0bama won’t even let us eat cake!
Fracking Communist. They believe all people are stupid animals like them who need “leaders” to guide them, and treat them like children.
One question...
Why are there only 3 Walmarts in Moochies home city of 3,000,000?
Yeah, like Moose Bangs knows what it’s like to shop at Walmart.
Places for Walmart near Chicago, IL
Walmart Supercenter
4650 W North Ave
Chicago
(773) 252-7465
Walmart Neighborhood Market
570 W Monroe St #2
Chicago
(312) 470-1460
7050 S Cicero Ave
Bedford Park
(708) 496-0230
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in a city of 3 million, only 3 stores
Places for Walmart near Chicago, IL
Walmart Supercenter
4650 W North Ave
Chicago
(773) 252-7465
Walmart Neighborhood Market
570 W Monroe St #2
Chicago
(312) 470-1460
7050 S Cicero Ave
Bedford Park
(708) 496-0230
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in a city of 3 million, only 3 stores
When I looked into it 2 or 3 years ago, Los Angeles, New York city, San Diego, and many other cities, forbade Walmart supercenters.
The first time that I ran into a Walmart with vegetables was in New Mexico.
I just had some tacos made with Walmart ground beef, and I fart in her general direction!
I just shop Weis and Food Lion where I live. There is a local Wal-Mart (not as big as the average outlet). I might check out produce prices there, if that store actually sells some.
The Mugabee’s lecturing about Morality, loosing weight and Budgets...
Ironic.
‘’Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue’’. — Francois De la Rochefoucheld.
FUMO!
Freep you, Michelle Obama!
I get plenty of healthy food at Walmart. They have large packages of fresh spinach, a great price on bulk brocolli, 10 lbs. of potatoes for $3.95, sweet potatoes on markdown at $.55/lb., competitive prices on bagged apples and bananas.
In the county seat, they put 96% lean ground beef on 1/3 off. (Not at my local branch, though, go figure.) My Mexican church ladies are hitting the sales on the parts of meat I don’t eat and those vegetables that I don’t know what they are, plus coupons on Mexican brands of pastry ... but Moooooochelle isn’t, so why doesn’t she just shut up.
Anybody wanna Reallly Get Sick to their stomachs?
Google the budget for “Let’s Move”.
That’s a personal grift gift from BO to MO.
Lucky us.....
Is she trying to help wal mart or hurt them?
Makes me no difference.
Too much China in wal mart for me to shop there, haven’t stepped foot in one in YEARS.
FYI, the Mooch and Her Thighness are both former Directors of WalMart.
all this smells like ....tax break for Wal-Mart...
If you really want to eat some genetically modified foods (GMO) which were created by Monsanto, a chemical company formerly run by Michael Taylor, now FDA employee of bambi then by all means shop at Wally.. you will be right in line for the d panels when the SHTF.
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