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Trump’s FDA just took another swipe at Michelle Obama’s food legacy
Washington Post ^ | June 13, 2017 | By Caitlin Dewey

Posted on 06/13/2017 10:19:23 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

After sustained lobbying from the packaged food and beverage industry, the Food and Drug Administration announced Tuesday an indefinite delay in the launch of Nutrition Fact labels that were intended to help Americans eat more healthfully.

The labels, championed by former First Lady Michelle Obama, were supposed to add a special line for “added sugars” and emphasize calorie content in large, bold text. They had been scheduled for rollout in July 2018, with a one-year extension for smaller manufacturers.

The delay is the latest reversal of the Obama administration’s nutrition reforms under Trump. On April 27, the FDA also delayed rules that would have required calorie counts on restaurant menus. A week later, the Department of Agriculture loosened the minimum requirements for the amount of whole grain in school lunches and delayed future sodium reductions.

Consumer groups are already slamming the Nutrition Facts delay as an attack on public health. The largest groups in the food industry, meanwhile, is celebrating what it calls a win for "common-sense" regulation.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: flotusmichelle; foodpolice; gottlieb; lunchlady; mooch; schoollunch; trumpfda
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1 posted on 06/13/2017 10:19:23 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What is good for wookies is not necessarily good for humans.


2 posted on 06/13/2017 10:20:53 AM PDT by Mr. Douglas (Best. Election. EVER!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The labels are fine just as they are. And when I go to a Restaurant, the last thing I want to see is the calories. I’m there for good tasting food....not rabbit food.


3 posted on 06/13/2017 10:23:46 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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4 posted on 06/13/2017 10:24:16 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Fourth estate? Ha! Our media has become the KCOTUS, the Kangaroo Court of the United States.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“healthfully” Is that a real word?


5 posted on 06/13/2017 10:24:20 AM PDT by Mercat (Everytime an old man farts, a butterfly dies.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I’ve been scouring the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, trying to find where it says that among the Federal Government’s “enumerated powers” it lists telling us what we can eat.


6 posted on 06/13/2017 10:24:59 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: Mr. Douglas

And what’s pushed as “good” by the wookie mom isn’t at all desired by the wookie kids, who ate in style at their posh private school.


7 posted on 06/13/2017 10:26:15 AM PDT by samtheman (Trump++)
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To: Mercat

“healthfully” Is that a real word?


It is politically correct speak for “I can impose my opinions about food on everyone else.”


8 posted on 06/13/2017 10:26:39 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: Mercat

[“healthfully” Is that a real word?]

Convfefe is a more real word than that....


9 posted on 06/13/2017 10:29:20 AM PDT by ObozoMustGo2012 ("Be quiet... you are #fakenews!")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Great. Now, do something about the restaurant menus.
On most of them now I can’t tell the calorie count from the price.


10 posted on 06/13/2017 10:30:53 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Well I guess that’s one positive of the press having their collective heads so far up Trumps rear end. The’re so consumed by their agenda and hopefully Trump is using that as cover to get stuff done.

A few of the networks even lead with a Trump story and pushed the Manchester, UK attack to second place when that event occurred.


11 posted on 06/13/2017 10:31:00 AM PDT by CodeJockey (I don't have a license to kill, but I do have a learners permit.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
So who told this parasitic cow she was a nutritionist?
12 posted on 06/13/2017 10:31:04 AM PDT by 4yearlurker (Government can make you feel so small and mean.-John Steinbeck)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Isn’t this the one that would require novel-length labels for restaurants?


13 posted on 06/13/2017 10:34:19 AM PDT by tiki
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Trump’s FDA just took another swipe at Michelle Obama’s food legacy

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Michelle carries around her food legacy as a 100 lbs of extra fat.


14 posted on 06/13/2017 10:37:23 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: Sacajaweau

I eat paleo and non processed food and I’ll still second that-if I’m in a restaurant spending my hard earned money, I’m not interested in the calorie count of the meal I’m there to enjoy as a treat-and I don’t suppose prize heifer Michelle or the other food Nazis know that all calories are not created equal nutritionally...


15 posted on 06/13/2017 10:43:16 AM PDT by Texan5 (`"You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Infinite delay. I like that. 😂😂😂😂
16 posted on 06/13/2017 10:45:24 AM PDT by jdsteel (Give me freedom not more government.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Wasn’t this the rule that meant that Domino’s would have to have 37 million different labels because that was all the possible combinations of pizzas a customer could order?


17 posted on 06/13/2017 10:45:26 AM PDT by chaosagent (Remember, no matter how you slice it, forbidden fruit still tastes the sweetest!)
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To: samtheman

Yeah, with every news story about her Commie food regulations, they should have been forced to show the posh weekly menu from the girls’ school!


18 posted on 06/13/2017 10:49:30 AM PDT by GnuThere
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The headline on this Washington Post story refers to “Trump’s FDA.”

What a farce.

Probably 90% of the people working at the FDA voted for Clinton.


19 posted on 06/13/2017 10:50:02 AM PDT by zeestephen
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Why Freepers Why?

It did not work for Chu, Chubaka.

Cut the carbs mooch.


20 posted on 06/13/2017 11:03:47 AM PDT by Uversabound (Might does not make right, but it does enforce the commonly recognized rights of each succeeding gen)
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