Posted on 09/16/2009 3:33:48 AM PDT by elizabethgrace
You can expect a backlash to the new White House Farmers Market, which launches Thursday.
The market was announced Tuesday at a chefs conference in Chicago by acting USDA Undersecretary Ann Wright, who said the market will sell sustainable produce from local farmers to the public.
When First Lady Michelle Obama and White House assistant chef Sam Kass broke ground on an organic White House garden in the spring, it totally bugged pesticide supporters (Mid America CropLife Association and the American Council on Science and Health), who sent the first lady a letter expressing "disappointment."
ACSH spokesman Jeff Stier was even featured on "The Daily Show" to say that telling people to eat local and organic food was "irresponsible" and "elitist" and could lead to starvation, obesity and cancer.
Wright said the market "is a symbol that we care and are aware of what's going on."
She also said the market and programs to support local food farming are "very much a part of the president's initiatives to bring more healthy food to underserved communities and children."
Wright, however, did not say whether the local and organic food at the market would bring these children obesity, starvation or cancer.
The market, expected to be held northeast of the White House on Vermont Street between H and I Streets, will be open Thursdays through Oct. 29.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
The Food Security Act will totally destroy the organic and local food movement
This White House would have plenty of fertilizer with all the bulls-— that flows out of there.
How many millions will this market cost the taxpayer?
BTW- Isn’t the land that garden is grown in at the WH lead-tainted?
Wonder if they’ll be handing out “free” soup at the rear of the building. This clown and his arrogant wife are a true national disgrace.
Daylight come and me want go home.
Chop banana til the morning come.
Daylight come...
Day-o, day-o
Daylight come...
Day-o, day-o
A beautiful bunch of ripe banana,
Daylight come...
Hide the deadly black tarantula,
Daylight come...
Day-o...etc.
Come mister tally man, tally me banana,
Daylight come...
Come mister...
Daylingt come...
I pack up all me things and I go to sea,
Daylight come...
Then all these banana see the last of me.
Daylight come...
Day-o...etc.
Come mr. tallyman..."
I don't understand this point.
Gives the term “ we weed up “ a whole new meaning.
share croppers — 40 acres and a mule
Really? What's their definition of "local"? Virginina? Maryland? Delaware? New Jersey? Pennsylvania? West Virginia? Mexico? I've been to and through D.C. and haven't seen any farms in the area I'd consider "local".
No thought at all given to the cost of shutting down the sreet, rerouting traffic and inconveniencing drivers so the First Usurper can get some photo-ops holding a few bunches of toxic greens raised by the White House gardeners.
Thank you for posting that link.
LOL.
Here in Austin, it’s called ‘Dillo Dirt. (sludge from water treatment plants)
Wasn’t the garden that Michelle planted laced with Lead?
Clinton beefs up security Pennsylvania Avenue closed by White House
Article from: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
Article date: May 21, 1995
Author: Ana Puga,
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Commission to Urge Keeping Avenue Closed; Plan Includes Pennsylvania Tunnel Study -Nov. 2001 WP
...The National Capital Planning Commission proposal also needs the approval of the White House and Congress. Since the historic roadway was closed after the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, Washington civic leaders have called for a full street reopening or construction of a $100 million tunnel to carry the 29,000 vehicles that once ...
Careful. Harry Belafonte is not popular hereabouts.
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