Posted on 03/02/2013 5:11:07 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(CNSNews.com) – First lady Michelle Obama is praising what has often been one of the left’s biggest targets, Walmart, for helping to fight obesity and “food deserts” in the United States.
“At Walmart, you can believe that as America’s largest retailer, you have an obligation that goes far beyond the bottom line,” Obama said Thursday at a Walmart in Springfield, Mo.
“You know that every day, with the products you sell, you’re helping parents get by on a budget -- which is what everybody in this country is trying to do. You’re helping kids get the nutrition they need to learn and grow and fulfill their God-given potential and those aren’t just business opportunities. They’re moral obligations -- truly. They’re responsibilities to the health of our families and the future of our next generation.”
Mrs. Obama has made fighting obesity, particularly childhood obesity, her top cause as first lady. She talked about how Walmart, the nation’s largest retailer, has stepped up to offer healthier options, and she insisted that other retailers must do the same thing.
“In the coming months and years, we need more American businesses to step up and meet those responsibilities,” the first lady said. “We need more companies to do what Walmart has done -- to dig deep and to find new ways to make money by giving families better information and healthier choices.”
Many liberal organizations such as labor unions and President Barack Obama’s base, have long criticized Walmart for its non-union stores. A top donor to Obama’s campaigns, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) supported a nationwide protest against Walmart last November.
But on Thursday, Mrs. Obama was full of praise for Walmart:
“You have opened 86 new stores -- one of the most important calls, most important work to eliminating food deserts, because you’ve opened these stores, including this one, in underserved communities,” she said.
“And now you’ve launched your ‘Great for You’ seal that I got to see firsthand that helps customers immediately spot healthy items on the shelf -- so they don’t have to spend hours poring over those fine-print labels that you can barely understand to figure out which foods are healthy and which ones aren’t.”
Walmart’s “Great for You” seal is a front-of-package icon that will appear on more than 1,300 Great Value and Marketside food and beverages sold in Walmart’s U.S. stores.
Walmart also has committed itself to improve the nutritional quality of Walmart’s Great Value brand and national food brands by reducing sodium by 25 percent, added sugars by 10 percent and removing all industrially produced trans fats by the end of 2015.
It has promised to increase Americans’ access to fresh, healthier and affordable food by opening between 275 and 300 new stores in urban and rural food deserts by the end of 2016.
And the retailer plans to help Americans better understand nutrition and healthier eating options by increasing its charitable support for nutrition programs.
A) Who elected or appointed this woman to any political office? (B) Who is she to determine where a company places a store of any kind? (C) When did we become a monarchy?
Maybe limes and green olives but that’s about it.
Walmart has been doing a fine job providing inexpensive healthy food to people without government help.
Enough so the government now feels a need to commandeer that success.
She needs to butt out.
What a crock....Our Walmart sells same old food that they’ve been selling for years. There is no healthy section.
Everybody? Certainly not the Obamas and friends. The White Hut grifters must not consider themselves in America or even remotely associated with America. But we knew that. Budgets are for little people. It's the Obamas who need to be sequestered.
The left has protected liberal stores by forbidding Walmart from entering their major cities.
Tens of millions of Americas are denied the right to shop at a Walmart grocery store.
Nanny State PING!
Nanny State PING!
The Obama’s support homosexual sex, homosexual marriage, killing babies, killing babies that didn’t die during the killing process... and on and on.
“Moral Obligations” is not something that cow should even be talking about.
“Mrs. Obama has made fighting obesity, particularly childhood obesity, her top cause as first lady.”
LOL!
Increasing enrollment in EBT to buy more junk food.
She’s the junk food queen LOL!
Nanny State PING!
What the hell is she doing at a Springfield Missourri Walmart and how much did this trip cost me?
Has she no idea how much we are spending to send her around the country? Thank God we aren’t paying by the pound, he ass alone would break the bank.
By the way Walmart sells the same stuff every other store does including candy and snack foods.
Walmart was IMHO one of the first to request a waiver of Obamacare. There's a reason for those "people of Walmart" emails.
Not a surprise: SEIU & Walmart unite behind Obamacare
Snip: June 30, 2009 Wal-Mart announced today that it was backing Obama’s government health care plan. The discount retail giant was joined by the Service Employees International Union and the left-wing Center for American Progress.
Walmart dials back health care benefits for scores of workers
did Walmart stop selling ice cream, soda, chips, candy, pizza, beer and many other products? i generally do not shop at Walmart only as the last resort. Lets face it the nearest Walmart is 62 miles away. Locally, there are approximately 3 grocery stores within 15 miles. If I plan ahead i drive 62 miles go to Aldis and keep within a budget I can purchase more there than the 3 local grocery stores. I also stop at Menards, Shopko, and Home depot, see plan ahead. Aldis even sells the lactose free milk (lasts 30 days in refrigerator). I can never find any gluten free items at Walmart.
Likewise.
I drive 20 miles further, once a month just to avoid the attitude, general dumbassedness, and “never have what I want” anyway, that seems to prevail at the nearest Wal-mart superstore.
Not worth ruining MY attitude for the day.
A man walked into a bar and ordered martini after martini, each time removing the olives and placing them in a jar. When the jar was filled with olives and all the drinks consumed, the guy started to leave. "Excuse me", said a customer, who was puzzled over what the guy had done. "What was that all about?" "Nothing", said the guy, "My wife just sent me out for a jar of olives."
If this two faced bytch was serious she’d make them change food stamps so that only “healthy foods” can be bought.
walmart is sucking up to them because they make millions on food stamp transactions.
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