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USDA Secretary: We Must ‘Create Appropriate Transition’ for What Americans Eat
CNS News ^ | 9/20/11 | Penny Starr

Posted on 09/20/2011 5:28:49 PM PDT by Freedom56v2

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To: Fred Nerks

>And when you get your ration books, you’ll also get a little red book extolling the wisdom of your great leader...and in the back, there will be an empty page for you to note how many times and when each day, you went to the toilet...<

No n o no no!

Chairman Obama has a little BLUE book!

http://www.amazon.com/Pocket-Obama-Editors-History-Company/dp/0978736842

Want one better??

Read the first page!! It is free and it will blow your mind!


101 posted on 09/20/2011 8:34:12 PM PDT by Munz (All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.)
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To: bushwon
Vilsack is a fine one to be preaching about a healthy diet. Dude looks like the Pillsbury dough-boy.
102 posted on 09/20/2011 8:40:18 PM PDT by Awgie (truth is always stranger than fiction)
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To: Awgie

Even O’bummer himself would be a more credible voice, though to really be a good example he ought to lay off the cigarettes too.


103 posted on 09/20/2011 8:47:41 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (There's gonna be a Redneck Revolution! (See my freep page) [rednecks come in many colors])
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To: HiTech RedNeck

The junk food consumption used to be tempered with wholesome food and plenty of exercise. Now even “home-cooked meals” aren’t what they used to be, and playing outside is deemed unsafe or replaced by computer/electronic entertainment.

I see an inverse relationship between the amount of information on nutrition labels, and the quality of the food in the packages. It’s as if more and more cr@p is added in because there is the plausible deniability of “hey it’s on the label”. Hence some brands of “spaghetti sauce” are nothing more than sugar water. Nothing is what it appears to be. And who knows what’s really in the food labeled “product of China”.


104 posted on 09/20/2011 9:13:02 PM PDT by Ezekiel (The Obama-nation began with the Inauguration of Desolation.)
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To: bushwon

Big Nanny Is Watching You.


105 posted on 09/20/2011 9:39:57 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: Jack Hammer

I don’t doubt it :(


106 posted on 09/20/2011 10:00:02 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 ("If you think healthcare is expensive now, wait till it is free"--PJ O'rourke)
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To: LucyT
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Is it me - or is Michelle auditioning for "Something About Moochelle" ...

107 posted on 09/20/2011 10:22:07 PM PDT by Lmo56 (If ya wanna run with the big dawgs - ya gotta learn to piss in the tall grass ...)
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To: bushwon

Vilsack can suck my ##**sack. I’ll eat what I wish without the assistance of big brother in Washington, DC.


108 posted on 09/20/2011 10:36:06 PM PDT by MediaMole
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To: MediaMole; All

Yes, it is pretty amazing that an individual chooses to dine out for a variety of reasons ~~a celebration, a meeting, a change of pace...or because they have no time to cook/eat at home, and they cannot eat what they want?

Yet, how many times have we heard dear leader’s wife counter that it is all about discipline and proportion and once-in-a-while indulgence when she splurges**, etc. and is questioned (by media who dare) while doing so....

**Lobster, astronomically high calorie state and vacation dinners, self-admitted “French Fries is (sic) my favorite food in whole wide world” “Tacos are Michelle’s favorite food” according to dear leader...etc.

Such a double standard!!!


109 posted on 09/20/2011 10:58:18 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 ("If you think healthcare is expensive now, wait till it is free"--PJ O'rourke)
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To: Munz

The first Reviewer has it right:

Quote:

This review is from: Pocket Obama (Paperback)
Oh happy happy joy joy! Now we can be automatons just like our brave revolutionary brothers and sisters of communist China. Those brave soldiers carry their little red books of Mao quotes everywhere they go. Now we can show the Obama Brigades that we are loyalists, too! If you are a true believer in the New World Order and the new communist revolution, you won’t want to be caught dead without this little Blue Book of Obama. Now if we can only muster up the resources to buy a plethora of train tickets to give those pesky, free-thinking American patriots and Christian zealots, we can send them to be re-educated (just as our socialist brothers in Germany did 65 years ago). If they are not receptive of the requisite schooling, we can teach them all about the efficient operation of ovens and lampshade manufacturing.


110 posted on 09/20/2011 11:51:57 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: hometoroost
Sounds like we need to create an appropriate transition for the Secretary in 2013 so he can get on with his life’s work.

Indeed. Hopefully, his new job will afford him the opportunity to make helpful suggestions as to what Americans should eat, such as, Would you like fries with that?

111 posted on 09/20/2011 11:58:25 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: Fred Nerks
Maybe this is what they have in mind? You won't be able to go shopping without it...

Nah. That's old technology. The modern way to shop is with the EBT Card!

112 posted on 09/21/2011 12:08:48 AM PDT by cynwoody
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To: cynwoody

http://articles.philly.com/2011-09-19/news/30176031_1_ebt-electronic-benefits-transfer-cruise-ships

“...State Auditor General Jack Wagner says the Department of Public Welfare “roadblocked” an audit of a program that permits those on welfare to access money for food stamps and other aid.

Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) cards, a/k/a ACCESS cards, are used by roughly 750,000 needy Pennsylvanians to get about $200 million a month in support...”

As an Australian, I have to say, that’s a whole lot of ‘poor people’ in one State...we could probably run our entire country on that.


113 posted on 09/21/2011 1:02:24 AM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: netmilsmom; Fantasywriter

I get red bean paste buns and doughnuts at the Vietnamese bakery inside the local Super H-Mart grocery. The clerks often seem surprised to see a white guy buying them.


114 posted on 09/21/2011 1:21:21 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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that Americans need to “adjust” their tastes so that they like the kind of food the government believes they should eat...

Hey USDA Secretary, just where in the U. S. Constitution did you read that garbage? I had to look at it again, and never saw anything about what YOU or anyone else in the government should tell me or anyone what to eat.

115 posted on 09/21/2011 4:52:52 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (Dear God, thanks for the rain, but please let it rain more in Texas. Amen.)
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To: wbill
I'm getting so that I rarely eat out; all I can taste is salt.

I quit eating salt quite a few years ago. The only time I use salt is when I cook certain food, especially BBQ. We went out to eat several months ago, and I sent my plate back because it was so salty, I could not taste the actual food.

116 posted on 09/21/2011 5:12:30 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (Dear God, thanks for the rain, but please let it rain more in Texas. Amen.)
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To: bushwon

“Hmmm, Well I am sure the teacher in the period following the black BEAN brownie distribution could tell the difference between chocolate and BEAN...with her nose! Yikes.”

Not only that, but beans cause global warming.


117 posted on 09/21/2011 5:25:04 AM PDT by kitkat (Obama, rope and chains)
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To: Arrowhead1952
Oddly enough, 9 times out of 10 when we eat out it's for BBQ. Easier (and faster, and likely tastier) to let someone else cook it. :-)

I went out with work to lunch the other day to Longhorn Steakhouse. It was almost inedible, all I could taste was salt/MSG/Spice on the steak. IMHO, the steak is what you're there to eat, and it's not just a means of transporting Salt from the shaker to your mouth.

118 posted on 09/21/2011 5:56:27 AM PDT by wbill
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To: CitizenUSA

>>No. They just THINK they own us. If they keep pushing this crap, they’ll get a wake up call soon enough.

There are still some “ferals” in the herd, but most of them don’t realize how domesticated they really are or how harmless they are. As long as the government/corporations can keep providing some luxuries and food to the sheep, the sheep will not take any action. Those who do strike a blow will be attacked by the sheep (McVeigh, Breivik, Terry Jones, etc). A single member of the herd who lashes out is easily beaten, discredited, and demonized as a lesson to the rest of the herd. Our masters in the government and corporations have fine-tuned their processes to keep us enslaved, but we are slaves living in comfort. Even if they cut our standard of living in half, we’re still pretty comfortable and well-fed.

You can tell yourself that when you go down, you’re going down fighting and you’re going to take some of them with you. We don’t really think like that. Modern Americans don’t trade their lives for just a few of the enemy if they can prevent it. Americans always think they good will prevail and things will get better, so throwing away your life to make a point is meaningless.

After a couple decades of living in the post-Obama communist state, people will finally be ready to die to take a few of them out and win freedom for someone else.


119 posted on 09/21/2011 6:01:58 AM PDT by Bryanw92 (The solution to fix Congress: Nuke em from orbit. It's the only way to be sure!)
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To: FreedomPoster

That filling is really good if you can get past what it is.
I never told my daughters and they thought the black bean paste was chocolate.


120 posted on 09/21/2011 6:10:20 AM PDT by netmilsmom (Happiness is a choice)
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