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You must have been a child when Michelle Obama said that children needed better food and half the country lost their collective minds. Hard to do anything when
by shimman 9mo ago
You must have been a child when Michelle Obama said that children needed better food and half the country lost their collective minds. Hard to do anything when corporations control what most legislation is passed.
- betaby 9mo ago> You must have been a child when Michelle Obama said My kids were born long before Obama took the office. What's your point again? That president can't control the quality of the food in the country under their control?
- reaperducer 9mo agoThe way I read it, he takes issue with your assertion that "nobody bats an eye" at sugar in Coke. This is quite the opposite of everything I've ever seen in my entire life in America. Or perhaps since you mention sugar, not corn syrup, and list quantities in kilograms not pounds or tons, he suspects you may not actually have first-hand experience with this.
- betaby 9mo ago> you may not actually have first-hand experience Sigh ( in canadian )
- reaperducer 9mo agoThank you for proving my point. Unless Obama was also president of Canada. I may have missed that.
- shimman 9mo agoPoint is that people do in fact try to change what you're complaining about, your dismissive comments are just sad. Go out and organize rather than shouting into the void if this is what you care about.
- reaperducer 9mo agoI've always wondered if her initiative, which caused some big food companies to reduce fat and salt in their products, and change their frying media, is the reason for the rise of Sriracha in America. My theory is that the food tasted less flavorful, so people compensated by adding their own. I don't eat a lot of junk food, but for a long time after the Obama administration, when I did partake, often my immediate reaction was "Wow. These aren't as tasty as I remember." /I'm looking at you, Cool Ranch Doritos.
- malfist 9mo agoCan you point to any examples of big food companies actually making changes for Michelle Obama's campaign?
- mikkupikku 9mo agoSisco, e.g. public school cafeterias. That's probably about it. The way in which school menus were actually changed was very misguided however.
- reaperducer 9mo agoFirst two results from this new-fangled thing they call a "search engine:" https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2768807?resultClick=1 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2768807?re... https://www.vox.com/2016/10/3/12866484/michelle-obama-childhood-obesity-lets-move https://www.vox.com/2016/10/3/12866484/michelle-obama-childh...
- malfist 9mo agoI appreciate you sharing those links, even if you had to get a jab in doing it :-)
- red-iron-pine 9mo agosriracha has a ton of sugar in it, ditto for things like ketchup. in all likelihood it's just enshittification, as those big corps make more slop for the plebs to eat in the cheapest way possible