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USDA Secretary: We Must ‘Create Appropriate Transition’ for What Americans Eat
CNS News ^ | 9/20/11 | Penny Starr

Posted on 09/20/2011 5:28:49 PM PDT by Freedom56v2

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told members of the National Restaurant Association on Monday that Americans need to “adjust” their tastes so that they like the kind of food the government believes they should eat—and “we have to make sure that what we do is create the appropriate transition.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: biggovernment; corporates; dementalillness; diet; foodcontrol; foodpolice; foodsupply; genocide; gloriesofsocialism; letsmove; nannystate; obamunism; populationcontrol; regulation; socialism; tomvilsack; tyranny; vegetarian; vilsack
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Quit yer complaining, and eat your tree-bark and twigs.

21 posted on 09/20/2011 5:41:55 PM PDT by LucyT
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To: ronnie raygun

You are so right on, you have NO idea! Thanks for being a voice of reason.


22 posted on 09/20/2011 5:42:07 PM PDT by acapesket
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To: ronnie raygun

I don’t think it is their doing...we can think our o wn first fashion diva, Moochelle and her progressive cronies!


23 posted on 09/20/2011 5:43:00 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 ("If you think healthcare is expensive now, wait till it is free"--PJ O'rourke)
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To: bushwon

thank our own...sorry for lack of proofing.


24 posted on 09/20/2011 5:43:42 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 ("If you think healthcare is expensive now, wait till it is free"--PJ O'rourke)
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To: hometoroost

create an appropriate transition for the Secretary in 2013 so he can get on with his life’s work.


Maybe North Korea has an opening?


25 posted on 09/20/2011 5:44:55 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 ("If you think healthcare is expensive now, wait till it is free"--PJ O'rourke)
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To: bushwon

Brownies made with black beans. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I had to eat far too many beans as a kid because it was all we had. I hate dried beans of any kind and I will not eat them because I’m 70 and no one can tell me what to eat.


26 posted on 09/20/2011 5:45:29 PM PDT by Coldwater Creek (He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty Psalm 91:)
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To: bushwon

Sieg Heil!


27 posted on 09/20/2011 5:46:08 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: bushwon

The only thing we’re going to transition is our government.


28 posted on 09/20/2011 5:46:28 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: bushwon
Americans need to “adjust” their tastes so that they like the kind of food the government believes they should eat—

.....and this will necessarily cause the cost of food to skyrocket

29 posted on 09/20/2011 5:46:32 PM PDT by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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To: bushwon
This is exactly the kind of thing we should be shooting people over...

This is about as anti-freedom as it gets and has NO place in our Country.

30 posted on 09/20/2011 5:46:40 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (For those who fight for it, life has a flavor the sheltered will never know.)
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To: Cloverfarm

This is kind of weird. I decide what to feed the livestock and pets because I own them ... so ... does the government think it owns the people?


Good question!!!!


31 posted on 09/20/2011 5:46:40 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 ("If you think healthcare is expensive now, wait till it is free"--PJ O'rourke)
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To: bushwon

They are already bullying food producers of all stripes.

Have you noticed the lack of taste and quality in some products.

Once companies start taking losses for products no one wants to buy anymore, Obama will blame them for poor quality.


32 posted on 09/20/2011 5:47:06 PM PDT by dforest
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To: bushwon

Or Harvard, not much ideological difference either way.


33 posted on 09/20/2011 5:47:46 PM PDT by hometoroost (Frodo lives!)
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To: bushwon

Now that their footing my medical bills (with my money) I guess it’s only fair they tell me what to eat. Excuse me, I have to go jog to my compulsory calisthenics class, comrade


34 posted on 09/20/2011 5:47:57 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Somewhere in Kenya, a village is missing an idiot)
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To: tpmintx

“They are trying to “save the planet” and eventually will seek to ban read meat.”

Article from Feb 2011:

Sebelius, Vilsack Announce Feds’ Plan to Subsidize Fruits and Veggies at Unveiling of New Dietary Guidelines
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/sebelius-vilsack-announce-feds-plan-subsidize-fruits-and-veggies-unveiling-new-dietary

“The guidelines, which are required by Congress and are updated, as needed, every five years, also set a 300 milligram limit of cholesterol and encourage people to eat more chicken and fish and to avoid beef, which is defined as a “solid fat.””
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Beef is now defined as a solid fat?


35 posted on 09/20/2011 5:50:22 PM PDT by thouworm (.)
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To: Jim Robinson

Got constitution? Obviously, not.


Hit nail on the head!!
Wish I had said that ;)


36 posted on 09/20/2011 5:52:08 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 ("If you think healthcare is expensive now, wait till it is free"--PJ O'rourke)
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To: bushwon

Since they own our bodies now via ObamaCare, this is the next logical step. We need to stop messing up their actuarial tables.


37 posted on 09/20/2011 5:53:31 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: indylindy

Yes, I have noticed...I believe there were threads denoting changes in Campbell Soups, etc. They are using different salts? etc.

What I find very troubling is that these government “initiatives” started with helpful suggestions to children, then government mandated to schools re: vending machines and meals.

Now government has begun to nudge restaurants and change adults menus...

I see incremental steps of government control...socialism on the move!!!


38 posted on 09/20/2011 5:57:18 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 ("If you think healthcare is expensive now, wait till it is free"--PJ O'rourke)
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To: bushwon

Just leave my grub alone.


39 posted on 09/20/2011 5:57:30 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: LucyT

Death by hamburger?The starvation death of Barak Obama at the hands of the 1st lawdee?Why does he have coke with everything?


40 posted on 09/20/2011 5:58:47 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascist info..http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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