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The Campaign for Junk Food
Michelle Obama on Attempts to Roll Back
Healthy Reforms
by
Moochelle Antoinette
rebuttal
by UV |
WHEN we began our Let’s Move! initiative four years ago, we set one simple but ambitious goal: to end the epidemic of childhood obesity in a generation so that kids born today will grow up healthy.
And
since I'm an unelected and unemployed lawyer, I have nothing
better to do than to tell parents that I know better than they do
about how to raise their children. Right now I can't
send the food police into their homes, but I can get their snotty
brats to eat what I tell them to eat while in Government Schools.
To achieve this goal, we have adhered to one clear standard: what works. The initiatives we undertake are evidence-based, and we rely on the most current science. Research indicated that kids needed less sugar, salt and fat in their diets, so we revamped school lunch menus accordingly. When data showed that the lack of nearby grocery stores negatively affected people’s eating habits, we worked to get more fresh-food retailers into underserved areas. Studies on habit formation in young children drove our efforts to get healthier food and more physical activity into child care centers.
Evidence-based?
Where? At no time has the Federal Government mandated
a school lunch menu predicated only on the assertions of a power
hungry first lady who thinks she knows better than the other 100
million mothers in the country!
Today, we are seeing glimmers of progress. Tens of millions of kids are getting better nutrition in school; families are thinking more carefully about food they eat, cook and buy; companies are rushing to create healthier products to meet the growing demand; and the obesity rate is finally beginning to fall from its peak among our youngest children.
Today
we have children refusing to eat Government Meals and going home
starving and eating what their mothers have been feeding
them. Perhaps in the land of polyester water
buffalo mothers there is no sense of nutrition, but in the world
outside of Obama voters, there is common sense.
So we know that when we rely on sound science, we can actually begin to turn the tide on childhood obesity.
When
a leftist says they are relying on science, you know they
pulled the methodology out of their asses and it is based on
emotion, not facts and certainly not based on science!
But unfortunately, we’re now seeing attempts in Congress to undo so much of what we’ve accomplished on behalf of our children. Take, for example, what’s going on now with the Women, Infants and Children program, known as WIC. This is a federal program designed to provide supplemental nutrition to low-income women and their babies and toddlers. The idea is to fill in the gaps in their diets — to help them buy items like fresh produce that they can’t afford on their own — and give them the nutrition they’re missing.
How
dare Congress think they know more about your kids than I do!
Right now, the House of Representatives is considering a bill to override science by mandating that white potatoes be included on the list of foods that women can purchase using WIC dollars. Now, there is nothing wrong with potatoes. The problem is that many women and children already consume enough potatoes and not enough of the nutrient-dense fruits and vegetables they need. That’s why the Institute of Medicine — the nonpartisan, scientific body that advises on the standards for WIC — has said that potatoes should not be part of the WIC program.
It
is kinda funny to think that the common potato has now become
public enemy number 1.3 after white men and guns.
Unfortunately, this isn’t an isolated occurrence. We’re seeing the same kind of scenario unfold with our school lunch program. Back in 2010, Congress passed the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, which set higher nutritional standards for school lunches, also based on recommendations from the Institute of Medicine. Today, 90 percent of schools report that they are meeting these new standards. As a result, kids are now getting more fruits, vegetables, whole grains and other foods they need to be healthy.
Understand
that "getting" is not
"eating". Today's children are taking
Moochie's vegetables and are dumping them uneaten in the trash
can. Moochie's program has increased wasted food
by tens of percentage points while their are hungry children
around the world without a hashtag moment.
This is a big win for parents who are working hard to serve their kids balanced meals at home and don’t want their efforts undermined during the day at school. And it’s a big win for all of us since we spend more than $10 billion a year on school lunches and should not be spending those hard-earned taxpayer dollars on junk food for our children.
Parents
know ahead of time what the menu is - and my mother would pack a
lunch for me when she didn't want me to eat the stuff or I didn't
like it. How is it that you have the audacity,
you cunt, to presuppose you know better and that other parents
don't have common sense, you focking cow!
Yet some members of the House of Representatives are now threatening to roll back these new standards and lower the quality of food our kids get in school. They want to make it optional, not mandatory, for schools to serve fruits and vegetables to our kids. They also want to allow more sodium and fewer whole grains than recommended into school lunches. These issues will be considered when the House Appropriations Committee takes up the annual spending bill for the Agriculture Department on Thursday.
In
other words, Congress is trying to show me up!
Remember a few years ago when Congress declared that the sauce on a slice of pizza should count as a vegetable in school lunches? You don’t have to be a nutritionist to know that this doesn’t make much sense. Yet we’re seeing the same thing happening again with these new efforts to lower nutrition standards in our schools.
And
remember when your husband blamed the invasion of law-abiding
citizens' tax returns as actions by a few rogue agents?
Our children deserve so much better than this. Even with the progress we have made, one in three children in this country is still overweight or obese. One in three is expected to develop diabetes in his or her lifetime. And this isn’t just about our children’s health; it’s about the health of our economy as well. We already spend an estimated $190 billion a year treating obesity-related conditions. Just think about what those numbers will look like in a decade or two if we don’t start solving this problem now.
Our
children need you to shut the hell up, tend to your garden and
your own brood of twiggie children and to get out of the school
lunch program - you have no training and no competence in
nutrition; but then again, when you have the last name
"Obama" competence is not something you would know
about.
The bottom line is very simple: As parents, we always put our children’s interests first. We wake up every morning and go to bed every night worrying about their well-being and their futures. And when we make decisions about our kids’ health, we rely on doctors and experts who can give us accurate information based on sound science. Our leaders in Washington should do the same.
Obama
propaganda was published in the Obama Times
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