Nanny State Food Police Update: Americans Will Have to Adjust Their Taste Buds So They Like the Kind of Food Team Obama Believes They Should Eat (video)
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on September 23, 2011
The Obama Nanny State Food Police monster is growing more tentacles — looks like we now have the Tastebud Division.
This is getting downright scary.
Few believed this could ever happen in America — the Soviet Union, yes. Cuba or Venezuela or China, of course. America — no way…
Beginning of tyranny, ladies and gentlemen — we’re still in the “soft tyranny” phase. “They came for the chocolate milk and the homemade sack lunches, and I didn’t speak up…”
Since when did FLOTUS Michelle Obama and Obama’s USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack become our “diet and tastebud overlords” — and who in the heck elected them?
Reported by CNS News, USDA Secretary: We Must ‘Create Appropriate Transition’ for What Americans Eat:
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.”
“You know, as we deal with this issue of reducing sodium and sugar, it sounds simple to do, but you all know better than I do, it’s not as simple as it sounds,” said Vilsack.
“It’s going to take time for people’s taste to adjust and they will adjust over time, but it will take some time,” he said. “So, we have to make sure that what we do is create the appropriate transition.
“Create the appropriate transition”? Why does that sound much like a line spoken by an ominous, monocle-wearing German officer in a WWII film?
And by “creating the appropriate transition,” there will, of course, likely be the obligatory footnote about how to prepare non-approved-for-the-ignorant-peasants foods should First Lady Michelle Obama ever saunter in for a plate of her beloved greasy cheeseburgers, chocolate shakes, and French fries.
Do as I mandate, not as I do, you ignorant peasants… we can’t leave it up just to the parents, after all.
Ag. Sec. Jumps on ‘Healthy Food’ Bandwagon: It Will ‘Take Time for People’s Tastes to Adjust’
From Joe Newby at Examiner, USDA Sec: Americans need to adjust tastes to like gov’t approved food
Of course, everyone should strive to eat healthier, but should government be in the business of telling private companies what food to sell, and dictating Americans tastes?
That’s the question put forward in a post at Health Impact News Daily.
According to that site, the kind of low-fat diet being pushed by the administration has been shown to be harmful and could contribute to Alzheimer’s disease.
Health Impact News Editor Brian Shilhavy wrote of a study published in the European Journal of Internal Medicine entitled “Nutrition and Alzheimer’s disease: The detrimental role of a high carbohydrate diet”:
Another result of the low-fat dietary belief was the replacement of fats in the diet with refined carbohydrates, which leads to a rise in blood glucose levels and over time to insulin resistance and diabetes. They point out that the prevalence of fructose, mostly in the form of high fructose corn syrup, is ten times more reactive than glucose in inducing glycation. This impairs serum proteins, and they hypothesize that this leads to a depletion of much needed cholesterol and fat in the brain. Strong evidence in favor of their hypothesis is the fact that studies show patients with type-2 diabetes are at two to five times increased risk to AD.
But the administration, through the First Lady’s initiative, is busy signing “legal, binding” agreements with restaurants to push the new dietary standards. Lynn Sweet, columnist for the Chicago Sun Times, wrote last week:
First Lady Michelle Obama on Thursday highlighted a move by Darden Restaurants–which operates Red Lobster, Olive Garden, LongHorn Steakhouse and Bahama Breeze–to sign a “a binding, legal agreement” to cut calories, offer healthier fruit and vegetable side dishes, reduce sodium and give free refills of one percent milk to kids.
The announcement was the latest deal signed by the Partnership for a Healthier America, the non-profit created to operate Mrs. Obama’s “Let’s Move” anti-childhood obesity drive.
Not only does Obama want us to eat our peas, he wants to force us to like them as well.
Mandatory free milk refills? Who is going to pay for that, Mrs. Obama? Surely I jest — we ALL will pay for it. No free refills on chocolate milk, of course — assuming parents of the future will even be allowed by the Nanny State to buy it for their children.
Why isn’t the National Restaurant Association objecting to this Nanny State bullying nonsense, this overstepping of government power?
When will government-mandated free food be demanded in a follow-up “binding, legal agreement” from Michelle-O and Team Obama?
Protest sign: 'Eat your own damn peas'
From Gateway Pundit, Obama Administration: All Your Taste Buds Belong to Us:
They’re not satisfied with controlling your health care, your light bulbs and your thermostat…
Now they want to control your taste buds, too.
From Moonbattery, Agriculture Secretary: We Must “Adjust” Our Taste to Please the Government:
When the amply-caboosed unofficial Diet Czar Michelle Obama barked ominously about restuarants’ duty to serve us less and worse-tasting food lest children get too chubby, corporate pansies characteristically scrambled to comply. Did they think that appeasement would keep the heavy fist of government from crashing down on their heads? If so, they’ve been proven wrong already.
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If told of a government so belligerently intrusive as to try to impose a “transition” in our taste in food, the Founding Fathers would have gasped in horror.
Some reader reponses at Moonbattery:
From Ghost of FA Hayek:
Hey folks, we are about one growing season away from Vilsack dictating what, and how much to grow.
The free market takes care of oversupply by producing less.
The government knows no such mechanism, so he is suggesting Government induced oversupply be mitigated by jamming it down your throat.
I am looking into my trusty crystal ball.
I see Soviet style shortages, and warehouses full of rotted food(at the same time)From Kevin R.:
So now we’re going to have prohibition speakeasy restaurants.
Black market underground restaurants.
Those damn collectivists are making free society a crime. Those people have got to go.From Sam Adams:
Ah how I look forward to the day when the government decides which Taco Bell I will patronize for my daily allotment.
BTW, I can’t make a better argument for the dissolution for the Department of Agriculture.
That’s right….the entire department.
Just like the EPA.
It should be obvious to the dimmest bulb that, since neither is constitutional, and both are tyrannical, then both should be disbanded.From A_Nonny_Mouse:
Mr. Vilsack-
You are not the boss of me.
None of you know-it-alls in Washington is my boss.
As a matter of fact, if one is to believe the Constitution, *I* (and millions like me) am *YOUR* boss.
So- sit down and shut up. That is an order.
You can eat whatever you think is best; you are absolutely free to do so. I and my fellow American citizens will use our God-given freedom to make OUR own choices, as well.
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Seriously? Dang. I wonder how long until I have to save up my entire years ration of sugar – if it’s even allowed – to process my homegrown fruit – if it’s even allowed – into a years worth of delicious jam and preserves – if those are even allowed.