More of the same, tired liberal blame the Coke & burgers for making Bubba fat.
While we're at it, why not ban cups, plates and forks?
Posted on 10/06/2006 3:57:54 PM PDT by Panerai
5 major food companies agree to snack guidelines that would ban Snickers
Snacks sold in schools will have less fat, sugar and salt under the latest crackdown on junk food won by former President Clinton.
Just five months after a similar agreement targeting the sale of sodas in schools, Clinton and the American Heart Association announced a deal Friday with several major food companies to make school snacks healthier — the latest assault on the nation’s childhood obesity epidemic.
“This is voluntary,” Clinton said. “They don’t have to do it. But they recognize the challenge we face, and they are helping us face the first step.”
Clinton said the obesity problem is hurting the American economy by contributing to high health care costs.
The agreement with Kraft Foods Inc., Mars Inc., Campbell Soup Co., Groupe Danone SA and PepsiCo Inc. sets guidelines for fat, sugar, sodium and calories for snack foods sold in school vending machines, stores and snack bars. Those companies make everything from M&M’s, yogurt and granola bars to Frito-Lay potato chips, Snickers bars and canned soups.
Under the guidelines, most foods won’t be permitted to derive more than 35 percent of their calories from fat and more than 10 percent from saturated fat. There will be a limit of 35 percent for sugar content by weight.
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The notion of salt as being harmful is silly, except for certain people with certain medical problems, who know who they are. Salt does not cause healthy people to develop health problems.
I wish someone would tell this lying, cheating POS to go to hell. I hate him. Oh, God help me, how I hate him.
And in a few months the taxpayer will pick up the tab again for Willie Jeff to get another bypass.
His conduct in the instant matter could be an indication of a personality trait of "straining at gnats and swallowing camels!"
The Clinton mantra: do as I say, not as I do.
Nanny State Ping...........
Tomorrow I'm giong to buy a package of snickers and pack them in my daughter's lunch on Monday..........LOL!!!
Where did Sick Willie get the authority to "crack down" on anything?
Sick Willie, I fart in your direction.
More of the same, tired liberal blame the Coke & burgers for making Bubba fat.
While we're at it, why not ban cups, plates and forks?
Listen up Kids, you have to eat that Old Hippie tofu and granola crap at school because Bill & Hillary Klintoon and their merry band of DemonRATS want to get back in the White House for another eight years.
I notice Kraft is involved in this cavein........not surprising asthey've been under the mantle of Philip Morris (now Altria) for so long.....not sure if that has been totally split off or not, but no matter, they learned from the best of the monopolistic capitulators.
Ah heck.
Buy two so she can share.
;-)
I don't want to know why he's wearing gloves.
Yuck.
The words Clinton and crack should never be used in a sentence together.
Yes, they have. I wonder when the "big food" payoffs will begin to roll into the government coffers?
LOL!!!
Actually, she and daddy are sharing a soda right now.....but she's not allowed to bring them to school. But the ban on soda in the elemntary school has nothing to do with this PC nonsense.....the ban was because of too many shaken up cans being openned.....
Clinton had nothing to do with any of this. Mike Huckabee and local people have been pushing states to do this for years, with great success.
It will take a few years, but I expect to see it happen unless we can some things turned around.
Let's start by following Shakespeare's advice - first kill all the lawyers........
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