The Obama administration keeps pouring huge sums of taxpayer money
into the First Lady’s beloved child obesity campaign, this month
allocating $10.5 million for the initiative which is part of a
broader—and costly—law to revolutionize the inner-city diet.
It’s all part of an Obama family goal of eradicating obesity among
children (as well as adults) in poor and minority neighborhoods and the
administration has committed an astounding $4.5 billion to accomplish
it. Most of the money has flowed through the U.S. Department of
Agriculture (USDA), the agency largely responsible for executing the
First Lady’s Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010. Since Congress passed the measure, the government has doled out tens of millions of dollars to a number of dubious projects.
Among them is a $25 million initiative to tackle child obesity in
“hard-to-reach, limited English proficiency and minority communities”
and $2 million to monitor what minority public school children eat for
lunch in one Texas district. Late last year the administration awarded $11 million so
public schools can buy kitchen equipment to prepare healthier meals for
low-income students and a $1.2 million grant to help middle school
students create fitness video games known as “exergames.” American
taxpayers even financed the nation’s first-ever obesity map to support
the president’s ongoing effort to single out health disparities between
ethnic minorities and Caucasians.
And, of course, there’s the First Lady’s scandal-plagued “Let’s Move”
initiative that strives to ensure that every family has access to
healthy, affordable food. In November Judicial Watch obtained government documents that
show a marketing firm with close ties to the president got a plum
no-bid contract of $100,000 to design the “Let’s Move” logo for Michelle
Obama’s campaign. The arrangement violates federal contracting rules
and is even acknowledged by federal officials as an “unauthorized
commitment,” the records obtained by JW show.
As if all this weren’t bad enough, the USDA just doled out a chunk of
change to conquer more childhood obesity in low-income communities. The
first chunk, $5 million,
is funding university research that will supposedly create childhood
prevention programs. This includes $4,887,083 to a public university in
Tennessee to devise a social marketing intervention to increase fruit
and vegetable intake and prevent childhood obesity and $149,988 to
develop a “kids-only” retail coupon study to promote healthy snack
options among adolescents in convenience stores.
“USDA is at the forefront of the Obama Administration’s efforts to
combat childhood obesity, which poses a threat to the health and future
productivity of our entire nation,” said Agriculture Secretary Tom
Vilsack. “These grants fund critical research that will help USDA and
our partners implement effective strategies to support America’s next
generation so they can have a healthy childhood and develop healthy
habits for life.”
On the same day, the USDA dedicated $5.5 million to provide public schools with healthy foods such as whole grains, fruits, vegetables, lean protein and low-fat dairy.
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Tuesday, March 25, 2014
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