Posted on 02/22/2010 2:02:17 AM PST by Suvroc10
Michelle Obama, appearing on Mike Huckabee's FNC show over the weekend, raised fears about so-called "food deserts" all over the US, yet she didn't know how to properly define them, even as she lectured down to Americans about the urgency to do something about them. Seizing on fighting childhood obesity as her signature issue, Michelle Obama spoke to Mike Huckabee about the epidemic of kids becoming fatter and more unhealthy in the US, yet she derailed her own cause by coming across as not knowledgeable at all about exactly what she was referring to. Raising fears about "food deserts" all over the US, Michelle Obama utterly failed to properly define the concept for which she's purporting to be an advocate. What are "food deserts?" According to Michelle Obama, they apparently are communities in the US where there's no access to grocery stores or no food at all! Is this really true? Weeeell, like all things in Obama-land...not exactly...
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There is a neighborhood in Pittsburgh without a grocery store. The reason? It is a high crime area, and no one wants to put up with the crime. Same in other areas I suppose.
Of course, Bertha Butt really needs to rant about obesity.
Interesting WSJ article:
Michelle, if you don’t know what you are doing, we’ll end up with another campaign to deal with the growing epidemic of childhood anorexia/bulimia caused by your campaign against obesity.
As I’m sure you know, it isn’t about childhood obesity. Its about more control by the government of our lives. This fuehrer will find out that the state needs more say so over our children’s lives, other than just the period from conception to 5 seconds after birth, and so will have to implement measures to “educate” them starting at 5 seconds after birth. It will continue downhill from there.
a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, Mrs. Bummer.
I think it is also about giving Michelle a cause that will increase her popularity.
If Huckabee was anymore RINO than he is, I’d puke.
Well... the other thing that is apparent is MO is basically “helping” one group of people- “inner city youth.” I imagine more spending is the answer ;(
“Food desert” must be Princeton lingo. Normal people don’t say that.
“Food deserts” only seem to occur where stores cannot afford to stay in business due to “shortages”, the nice word for theft.
Same thing in Charlotte. No shortage of drugs in these same areas though. Perhaps the grocery stores could sell their wares via these enterprising street merchants. ;-)
Its all about Union Jobs in the School Lunch Behemoth,Now they are giving Breakfast Lunch and Dinner to all the school children and this is going to continue even when schools are closed during the Summer. Can someone tell me where the Parents are.
Its sad when Children in school ask the teacher if they can come to school to get Breakfast when the school is closed
Food desert — an interesting construct. By the article’s definition, North Tulsa was one of those until recently when a previously-closed chain grocery was re-opened using community development grant and loan funds. Being located in the high-crime neighborhood, many predicted exactly what happened: a stick-up at closing time within three weeks of first opening. The odds for remaining open at the one-year mark are being calculated. I’m considering taking the under side of that wager.
Cheers
Do illegal drugs have any nutritional value?
A food desert as opposed to a non-food desert?
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