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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So. Mobama is concerned about so called “food deserts” in the low income neighborhoods.
Well, howzabout she pillow talk her husband into cutting out the welfare and food stamps that allows Holder’s people to buy soda and junk food at the local corner store?
Now THAT would be a step in the right direction.
I thought demoRATs & unions hated the mega-stores like Wal-Mart, and I am sure that Walgreens & SuperValu draw the same heaping scorn from the marxist lefties. But all of a sudden phat ass mabelle-michelle promotes an idea and the slobbering, fawning marxist media fall all over themselves slobbering what a great idea it is. For two reasons -- she's black & she's a socialist. Any white conservative woman who would have suggested it, would have been savagely attacked for going against unions.
On a side note, it looks like phat-ass mabelle-michelle is already packing extra watermelons in her bloated thighs & big butt.
This the new “Wookiie war cry”?
Reading between the lines here makes me wonder if there are going to be government subsidies for these retailers to do this.
“The Obama administration is committing $35 million to the effort this year and is proposing $330 million from the budget next year.”
Sooooo...these stores aren’t exactly ‘volunteering’, are they?
do as i say not as I do...........
This is particularly amusing coming from the First Grease trap.
This is an example of how government give an advantage to big business over small ones. A small company couldn’t afford to do this.
Every time a Food Lion etal tries to move into an Urban area, there is community opposition. They don’t want “those jobs”.
So CNN can’t spell “dessert”.
So Michelle doesn’t like “food desserts”, preferring “turd desserts” instead, I reckon.
Oy!
mabelle-michelle’s open palm clap... to make herself appear more dainty. Guess what phat ass mabelle-michelle? It’s not working!
That first quote,about taking three city buses to get some lettuce is mind-bobblingly as dishonest and ludicrous as anything her hubby’s said, or any part of his own agenda.
But they do have a knack for coming up with these catchy
conceits that will get parroted back by the faithful for as long as the Zeros are in power. Sure, force retailers to participate, and stick them with all that spoiled produce:
another way to undermine capitalism and break the system.
Hmmmm, I missed that twist. Good thing we have plenty of money.
Soon all these pronouncements will just be a bad memory, if even that.
They may think they get good publicity. They want to do charity work, go ahead be my guest, but I won’t be shopping at these stores.
My money and my feet go elsewhere.
A company struggling to survive that had to lay off
employees is now going to open ten stores is blighted
areas....how exactly are they going to afford to do
that? I thought so.
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