food sermons from a lard-assed marxist hump
here's an idea .. STFUMoo
Posted on 07/20/2011 1:52:48 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
First lady takes on ‘food deserts’
Posted by: CNN White House Producer Alexander Mooney
Michelle Obama unveiled the latest push in her healthy-eating campaign Wednesday, announcing several national and regional food retailers have pledged to expand into a string of low-income markets where finding nutritious food options is nearly impossible.
“If a parent wants to pack a piece of fruit in a child’s lunch, if a parent wants to add some lettuce to a salad at dinner, they shouldn’t have to take three city busses…to go to another community to make that possible,” the first lady said at during a White House event marking the new effort.
National chains participating in the partnership include Wal-Mart, Walgreens and SuperValu, which have agreed to open or expand more than 1,000 locations as part of the effort to eliminate what the Department of Agriculture calls “food deserts” throughout the country.
A handful of regional retailers are also involved, including Calhoun foods, an Alabama-based chain that currently serves low-income communities with six stores. The minority-owned company, which in the depths of the recession two years ago was forced to cut back workers’ hours to avoid layoffs, said they plan to open 10 additional stores in the coming years in currently under-served communities. CEO Greg Calhoun as well as Jimmie Coleman, a manger at the chain, were on hand for the event.
The White House says the collective effort will result in serving nearly 10 million Americans who currently have little affordable food alternatives to convenience stores and fast food chains.
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I have never had warm donuts. I can only imagine that they are “heavenly”. Okay... if people were in front of me, I’d eat two. If I was alone... it would be scary!! We’re talking “line backer eating”!!
I looked at that map and the “food desert” next to me is almost all farms and a river for crying out loud!
Fat ugly Pig stay out of our food! That fat azz of yours needs hooked to a plow!
She’s gonna need 11 cream pies on the double to get to the bottom of this series problem. Research, you see?
food sermons from a lard-assed marxist hump
here's an idea .. STFUMoo
“announcing several national and regional food retailers have pledged to expand into a string of low-income markets where finding nutritious food options is nearly impossible. “
Must be convenience stores adding moochelles delicacies. Almpst all the major grocery chains have or plan on moving out of the “desert” areas because of theft and/looting.
Olympic National Park
Everglades National Park
George Washington National Forest
I think if we look deeper, we'd find that there are some sorts of guarantees incvolved, be they tax breaks, subsidizies, grants, or just the attraction of being able to overcharge on the EBT cards.
Why can’t these people just go away. Enough already.
Not to mention Federal funding, I’ll bet.
Not money; EBT cards.
And probably not an entire head of lettuce, but perhaps one of those packages of shredded salad or sliced up fruit that was going bad, so it had to be recycled.
Uncle is paying. Profits will be high.
Shrink in inner-city stores is terrible.
Every item is a potential "grab n go" or a "pocket-item"
Maybe because those black people have to take buses for anything is because they keep looting and burning whatever stores are near to them. But keep lying first commie horse.
Maybe because those black people have to take buses for anything is because they keep looting and burning whatever stores are near to them. But keep lying first com. wooky.
As I suspected, we live in a food desert. Rural, 8 miles from a supermarket, farms, everyone gardens. Small stores in some of the villages. Roadside stands available 6 months of the year. Every gas station is a convenience store with groceries, including produce.
Maybe because those non-white people have to take buses for anything is because they keep looting and burning whatever stores are near to them. But keep lying first wookii.
Rampant shop lifting and vadalism yield consequences...
I imagine she’s thinking of HER salads, Lobster, Crab, etc. the dumba$$ doesn’t realize they think of salads as lettuce, tomatoes, etc.
Whoa, that kid in the gray pants has a caboose that is going to be bigger than Wookies... but Wookie wears Spanx to hold hers in.
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