Posted on 02/11/2016 6:55:46 PM PST by Nachum
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Hold the mystery meat: Military mess halls soon will be serving more fruits, vegetables and low-fat dishes under the first program in 20 years to improve nutrition standards across the armed services.
First lady Michelle Obama and Pentagon officials announced the effort Thursday during a visit to Little Rock Air Force Base in Arkansas, where the military has been experimenting with ways to improve the quality and variety of foods served on base. The first lady toured a gleaming cafeteria line, then announced the program in a dining hall filled with service members whose plates were overflowing with salad greens, broccoli and whole grains.
“You all look really good, really fit,†she told the airmen. “Thank you for eating your vegetables. We need you strong.â€
She encouraged healthy habits during a visit with individual airmen at their tables.
“Don’t worry, you’ll be a vegetable guy soon,†she reassured one airman.
She stressed that it’s not just about giving members of the armed services a more svelte profile: There are big national security and budget implications.
Nanny State PING!
Never put it past the Dims to live up to stereotypes. Guess they won’t be happy until the military are a bunch of pasty anemic protein-deprived waifs.
Genetics, rich food, good living, never served our country a day in her life, a real leftist parasite.
My son survived on one MRE per day in Iraq during the famous 750 mile drive of equipment and fighting from Kuwait to Baghdad and then Balad AF Base, including spending days in the sandstorm of the century and on guard against Iraqi fedeyeen attacks.
He came back a “lean, mean, fighting machine”, not a PC leftist vegetarian wimp.
This leftist pig can take her “greens” and shove them where the sun don’t shine. Then maybe she will lose some weight. Or a couple weeks tour of duty in Afghanistan will take the fat of the land off the pig of the land.
PS: I didn’t see any broccoli in Nam either. Nor did I have to eat C or K rations. Lucky me.
They need to strap her down and make her eat what she wants to feed others.
Just try getting rid of SOS and a military coup will ensue.
No wonder Air Force generals are fainting on podiums. (only know of the one case, but ...)
What is healthy is purely subjective.
It’s the lefties opinion we should not eat meat, that it’s unhealthy, etc, etc so they push that agenda along with the rest.
It will be so good to get someone like Trump or Cruz in.
I just hope they are effective.
Twigs and leaves...
My dad’s fave when he was in the Army was ‘sh*t on a shingle’. And, yes, I grew up eating that. ;)
Pretty sad they can’t figure it out on their own.
Exactly!
Some ofit is. But there is no one size fits all diet, given the diverse genetics and geography differences of peoples.
So, no more SOS in Navy galleys anymore? That’ll make everybody irritable as heck.
Just start the militias back up: good food, good training, and someday, Congress might even help, per the Constitution (Art. I, Sec. 8).
I was just having a little fun with the “You’ll Be a Vegetable Guy Soon”. Those two still shots were from an episode of the ‘60s TV series Lost In Space, titled The Great Vegetable Rebellion.
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The Great Vegetable Rebellion
February 28, 1968
As the Robinsons celebrate the Robot’s birthday, Dr. Smith sneaks off in the space pod to a planet dominated by plants. After pulling a flower, he is accused of murder by Tybo, a carrot-man, who punishes him to an eternity of literal tree-hugging.
The family lands to search for Smith and meets a purple-haired botanist named Willoughby who explains that Tybo is the one in charge.
After Smith is transformed into a talking stalk of celery, and Penny grows into a flower bed, the Professor and Major West try sabotaging Tybo’s moisture-control system to stop the plant tyrant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Vegetable_Rebellion
This witch can’t be gone and out of our hair fast enough. She is so stupid she doesn’t even know we need to maintain a certain level of fat in our diet for our brain to function properly.
There are some in the military who could use some dietary advice from a true medical professional trained in the diet and who also suffer from a slower metabolism than the norm for those in their age group. That is a medical situation and not something some fat pig living the peoples house has any say over.
A better and smarter solution would be to find a way to correct the metabolism of those who tend to gain weight rather than punish them via diet.
I truly despise the obie’s.
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