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To: Bill who wrote (409903)	2/10/2011 9:40:57 AM
From: J.B.C.	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793970

Grub Here’s a letter to the Baltimore Sun: Applauding government-issued dietary recommendations, Peggy Yen insists that “people need simple guidelines for choosing the food they eat” (Letters, Feb. 9). If people are too dimwitted to choose on their own the foods they eat, how can they possibly be trusted to choose on their own the persons who represent them in government? The evidence does indeed suggest that Americans too often choose as their elected representatives greasy, pork-laden, and processed hot dogs who offer only empty calories as they clog the arteries of commerce. Sincerely, Donald J. Boudreaux

To: Bill who wrote (409903)	2/10/2011 9:48:06 AM
From: MulhollandDrive	1 Recommendation Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793970

she's has a bit of quandary there, if she wants kids to eat healthy food, she would be encouraging parents to prepare healthy meals at home (avoid gov't frankenfoods) preferably from products grown in their own garden <gg> Message 27148147

To: Bill who wrote (409903)	2/10/2011 10:14:36 AM
From: goldworldnet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793970

Another benefit I see there is that it would go a long way curbing finicky eaters that don't like to eat their vegetables. * * *

To: Bill who wrote (409903)	2/10/2011 10:22:47 AM
From: Murrey Walker	4 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793970

If the government stopped serving pizza, french fries and coke to the majority of kids every day at school, this country would meet the nutrition goals years sooner. As many of you know, I'm in advertising/marketing. What you probably don't know, is that I've spent the last twenty years in a very vertical segment -- Foodservice. Schools is a very important group of what we call non-commercial, i.e., schools, colleges, corporate feeding, prisons, etc. The industry has been/will be, extremely sensitive to what it feeds children; to the extent that manufactures process foods under guidelines that fall under U.S. Childhood Nutrition. IOW foods delivered to that segment fall under governmental regulatory guidelines (and have been for as long as I can remember). Michelle is NOT breaking new ground either in the restaurant (commercial) or early childhood (non-commercial) feeding. She's merely found a soapbox on which she can stand, until she decides to go on another spending binge (with her fawning entourage) in Europe.