US Food Manufacturers' New Labels Disappoint Michelle Obama

Brand Channel ^ | January 26, 2011 | Barry Silverstein

[2ndDivisionVet]

Close your eyes and imagine Laura or Barbara Bush, Nancy Reagan or Pat Nixon doing this, and how it would be received. Now Evita Perón, Elena Ceauşescu or Jiang "Madame Mao" Qing I can see acting like this...

[mountainlion]

Watch out MO will take away your heat if you eat too much.

[jakerobins]

I wish Moochelle would (to use a phrase) “Worry about her own backyard”...before telling regular americans what to eat!!

[GSWarrior]

Isn’t this taking her crusade against obesity into a whole new arena—namely government-control of the food industry?

[bmwcyle]

Disappoint Michelle Obama = Hell to pay

[GoCards]

She doesnt want a label she wants to discontinue the food. Bottom line.

[GoCards]

She doesnt want a label she wants to discontinue the food. Bottom line.

[GoCards]

She doesnt want a label she wants to discontinue the food. Bottom line.

[GoCards]

She doesnt want a label she wants to discontinue the food. Bottom line.

[The Comedian]

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[blackdog]

She was on the board of directors for Treehouse Foods for quite some time. I think the rest of the board hated her, but when your husband is a Chicago based state senator and then US senator, and your headquarters is in /chicago, you learn to bite your tounge.

[EGPWS]

I wish Moochelle would (to use a phrase) “Worry about her own backyard”...before telling regular americans what to eat!!

[blackdog]

Yes, that's their agenda. She may not be that smart, but she's being steered that way.

If you don't want plump kids, go first lady Kenya. That place is full of starvin Marvins.

[paulycy]

in which she urged food manufacturers to create labels for their products that would help consumers do a better job of choosing the right foods.

She wants labels that say "DON'T EAT THIS JUNK" applied to foods of her choice and enforced by the government.

[LibFreeOrDie]

The Obama administration wanted the package-front labels to emphasize nutrients that consumers might want to avoid, like sodium, calories and fat.

Hypocrites!

[airplaneguy]

when the wookie outlaws junkfood, only outlaws will have junkfood. I have a few things in my pantry that are junkfood. Am I now a criminal? /sarc

[CIDKauf]

“Put the cheeseburger down and step away slowly. You are under arrest you fat bastard”.

[airplaneguy]

“Put the cheeseburger down and step away slowly. You are under arrest you fat bastard”.

ha ha. I dont care who you are, thats funny stuff right there!

[Last Dakotan]

When was the election for the position of Official National Scold? I must have missed it.

[hal ogen]

Just why is the grifter, mooch-elle, disappointed? Maybe because they didn’t under-the-table her $.01 for each label or maybe because her angry puss isn’t featured on each label? I think she should shut her America-hating pie-hole and go to some sort of party. What a total loser.