As you dig into your Butterball with all the trimmings this Thanksgiving, remember that millions of famished schoolkids around America may be forced to forgo classic turkey — and chow down instead on vegan black-bean patties and organic locavore quinoa salad.
On Nov. 1, sizable cuts were gouged into the federal food-stamp program (or, as it’s now called, SNAP, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), which feeds 47.6 million people, or nearly one in six Americans. In the city, 1.9 million folks get the bulk of their Jell-O and Campbell’s Soup from stamps.
But news has spread among the poor, like leafy green vegetables, that it wasn’t heartless Republicans who triggered the cuts.
Rather, some of the food-stamp cash was snatched to pay for Michelle Obama’s pet project, Let’s Move. What?
It’s come to this. Some 76 million meals a year will vanish from this city — poof! — partly because the president diverted money from SNAP to the first lady’s signature program, part of her Let’s Move anti-obesity initiative — the bean-sprout-heavy, $4.5 billion Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act.
There’s a big revolt coming.
And the little children will lead it.
A Utah news TV station did a huge story on how these school children will NOT eat their ”fresh fruits” and veggies BUT they refuse to see it go in the trash!
They are insisting on it being recycled….
Better yet, they decided, don’t put it on their plates UNLESS they ask for it!
Then the Utah food banks can get the food and serve it to those who are both needy AND want to eat it.
Poor Michelle!
The TV station showed huge piles of fresh apples and oranges, weird rice salads, falafel and other stuff all being refused as the kids picked up their plates.
The result was a gigantic windfall to Utah (read mostly LDS) food bank.
Then the grateful smiles and thank yous from actual hungry people at the food bank.
Utah has a homeless situation of around 4,000 individuals.
That’s out of a population of 3 million.