Posted on 03/20/2012 6:46:41 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
I really did think it was too dumb to check. I saw this column in the Post yesterday and passed on blogging it because I figured it’d turn out to be an exaggeration. Nope. That’s what I get for giving the benefit of the doubt to a guy who worries about people on food stamps buying sugary drinks.
You might die cold and hungry on the streets of New York, my friends, but at least you won’t have to worry about high salt intake.
In conjunction with a mayoral task force and the Health Department, the Department of Homeless Services recently started enforcing new nutritional rules for food served at city shelters. Since DHS can’t assess the nutritional content of donated food, shelters have to turn away good Samaritans…
DHS Commissioner Seth Diamond says the ban on food donations is consistent with Mayor Bloomberg’s emphasis on improving nutrition for all New Yorkers. A new interagency document controls what can be served at facilities — dictating serving sizes as well as salt, fat and calorie contents, plus fiber minimums and condiment recommendations.
The city also cites food-safety issues with donations, but it’s clear that the real driver behind the ban is the Bloomberg dietary diktats.
What is with this guy running his little nutritional experiments on the city’s poorest people? Are they simply targets of opportunity, dependent upon NYC’s government for survival and therefore forced to follow whatever pleasure-stifling nannyism Bloomberg can cook up for them? Or does he focus on the poor because in America cheap eats tend to be bad eats, which leads (paradoxically) to more obese poor people? Or maybe it’s a preventive measure aimed at minimizing health-care costs for the poor by improving their diets before they get sick? Or maybe Bloomberg just has deep psychological issues about salt? All theories are welcome.
I think I saw an arugula back in the swamp one day, a gator got it! It screamed like Medea Benjamin as it died, lots of tonsil rattle!
Now, when the homeless die of starvation, they can thank Bloomberg that their trans-fats are low.
New York voted for him. New York DESERVES him.
Also keeps those pesky Christians out of the charity racket ... “sorry, have to shut you down for health code violations”
Bloomberg should import some NORKs to teach the homeless how to live off twigs and bark.
He is the epitome of "in name only" because he has never been and will never be a Republican. He only switched his party affiliation because there were so many in the dem Mayor primary in NY. Once he one the Rep nomination he basically bought his way into the seat and has continued to pay to stay there.
He has a Napoleonic complex, plain and simple.
Imagine what President Mitt will be like.
The city also provides food consumption supervisors who make sure that those who receive the donated food chew it properly before swallowing.
Liberals not only act like they just got to Earth and don’t know the common sense rules, they also act like they are smarter than everybody else. They act like they are a ruling class, endowed by our Creator with a divine right to rule over us.
isn’t it nice that Bloomberg wants the homeless to get their daily intake of fiber?
No.
I think he is crazy like a fox...less donations from the public means... well the ‘government’ has to step in and provide more...and where does the ‘government’ get more from... why you of course, now everyone gets to ‘share their wealth’.
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