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.

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betaby 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> 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?

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reaperducer 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The 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.

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betaby 5 hours ago | parent [-]

> you may not actually have first-hand experience

Sigh ( in canadian )

	▲	reaperducer 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Thank you for proving my point. Unless Obama was also president of Canada. I may have missed that.

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shimman 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Point 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.

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reaperducer 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I'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.

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malfist 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Can you point to any examples of big food companies actually making changes for Michelle Obama's campaign?

	▲	mikkupikku 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Sisco, e.g. public school cafeterias. That's probably about it. The way in which school menus were actually changed was very misguided however.
	▲	reaperducer 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		First two results from this new-fangled thing they call a "search engine:" https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2768807?re... https://www.vox.com/2016/10/3/12866484/michelle-obama-childh...

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red-iron-pine 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

sriracha 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