Posted on 12/09/2011 10:51:59 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Sesame Street Muppet Pitches Government Dependence: Free Food at School By Eric Scheiner December 9, 2011 Subscribe to Eric Scheiner's posts
(CNSNews.com) – A “food insecure” Muppet is helping to promote a national “Food for Thought” campaign that teaches poor families to seek out nutritious food and to eat on the taxpayers’ tab.
At the National Press Club on Thursday, Lily the Muppet – who worries about her family not having enough money to feed her properly -- pitched free food at school:
“Sometimes we can't always afford to buy all the food that we need,” Lily said. “I mean, but we've been finding lots of ways that we can get help...Yeah, for example, at school I get a free breakfast and a lunch...part of the meal plan."
Lily’s message is being circulated through schools, hospitals and food assistance programs as part of Sesame Street’s “Food for Thought” multi-media campaign, which includes DVDs and a booklet listing “services that can assist your family” as well as “referrals to social service agencies.”
Organizers say they have produced a million of the kits.
At the National Press Club on Thursday, the Rev. Douglas Greenaway of the National WIC (Women, Infants and Children) Association lauded Sesame Street’s ‘Food For Thought’ campaign – even linking it to federal deficit-reduction.
“What ‘Food For Thought’ does is remind people that eating healthy now gives them a good health outcome in the long term. So the folks you’re looking at up here, the programs that they represent, what ‘Food For Thought’ does is really a deficit reduction strategy, and we hope policymakers will take notice of that,” Greenaway said.
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In my day, students with free/reduced lunch tickets tried to hide them because they were embarrassed.
That is about right....
Even as a 5 year old growing up in early 70’s, there was something I really disliked about Sesame Street. I just couldn’t put my finger on it. Too preachy? Too soft? Too politically-correct? Too BORING!
““Sometimes we can’t always afford to buy all the food that we need,” “
Since the Chump In Chief took control, neither can I.
Where do I sign up?
Can I claim my dogs as dependents?
Since I always make sure they have food before I buy my own, I should get a ‘eco friendly’ credit or something.
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Nope ---- too gay.
Too psychedelic.
It scared the hell outta me.
http://www.ifap.ed.gov/efcformulaguide/attachments/101310EFCFormulaGuide1112.pdf
I,also, watched Sesame Street in the early 70’s.
However, once I entered kindergarten, became a latch key kid and had free access to the TV without adult supervision, I discovered the world of TV reruns,especially the one with James West and Artemus Gordon who could never tame that evil dwarf.
And is Lily obese?
It would be interesting to know how many of those classified as food insecure are also overweight.
Interesting, if biased: http://maps.ers.usda.gov/FoodAtlas/
I too watched it as a young tike in the early 70’s.
It was not nearly as corrosive as it is today.
Of course it could not match the attraction to me of more adult fare like Star Trek, Green Acres and Hogan’s Heroes.
It scared the hell outta me.
If that's the case, Gumby probably had you hiding under the bed.
Cool blog! I look forward to more cheap meal ideas!
I notice a lot of them are pasta. We grew up around a lot of Sicilian immigrants and their first generation kids. Despite the romantic imagery, life there was intensely poverty-stricken for most people. Hence the heavy reliance on herbs and pasta.
Now I hear many complaints that the local supermarkets jack up the price of pasta sauce every time the economy goes into recession. They know what people will be eating.
I hope they parody this on Pumpernickel Boulevard...
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