Good to see this user account. {{thumb up}}
Useless?
Hardly, that money bought an incredible amount of influence and paid off favors and...
Hey, the government workers, contractors, printers, and distribution companies did quite well and can show there success—income earned, profits.
The level of ignorance about nutrition is astounding even in this forum. This is largely because of all the nonsense perpetuated by the “diet” industry, but also because people like to believe in shortcuts and easy explanations.
I have no doubt that Judicial Watch is referring to genuine waste, but it would have been nice if the article would have linked to some of the nonsense that they are referring to. When the government is filing out 100s of Billions of dollars to people who are allowed to use the money to buy unhealthy processed crap, it doesn’t seem completely unreasonable that some percentage should be used to help them make better choices. But I don’t know what Judicial Watch, one of my favorite watchdog organizations is referring to because the article does not say.
While $907 million for nutritional education (something the government should NOT be in the business of doing) is ridiculous, it begs the bigger question; how much of that money makes its way into the pockets of our elected officials?
Maybe not wasted/useless for the folks involved...
Like the food pyramid that had folks gorging on “low-fat” carbs that would require hundreds of foot miles to NOT convert to fat in the body?
Like the “low fat protects against heart disease” when the only things that actually do protect folk is genetics and/or exercise.
like cholesterol is mostly genetic, and is very little affected by diet?
The winners here have been the government agencies doing the “good works,” the companies selling tailored “good” nutrition to us “ignorant losers,” and above all, the medical/insurance industries who, on the one hand can say “it’s your fault you are sick with ..... your lifestyle/diet is this and that’s bad” or, on the other hand “we don’t have to cover that because the government guidelines say it’s your fault for not living this certain way/diet”
To err is human, to really f.......oul up takes a government comittee.
.02, YMMV
KYPD
I wonder how much of my tax dollars went to this black hole?
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