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Will Michelle Obama Take On Big Ag?

First Posted: 03/21/10 06:12 AM ET Updated: 05/25/11 04:15 PM ET

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Reducing childhood obesity is a goal that few could argue with. But really it's an appealing way to frame a massive problem with powerful vested interests behind it: a food system that churns out low-quality, environmentally ruinous food and robust profits for a few companies.

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Reducing childhood obesity is a goal that few could argue with. But really it's an appealing way to frame a massive problem with powerful vested interests behind it: a food system that churns out low-...
Reducing childhood obesity is a goal that few could argue with. But really it's an appealing way to frame a massive problem with powerful vested interests behind it: a food system that churns out low-...
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OneConservative
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12:11 AM on 01/21/2010
LOL.... Sure, having someone else plant and take care of your garden makes you competent to take on "big ag".
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deepintheheartoftejas
Middle o/t Road = Yellow stripes & dead armadillos
232 Fans
10:10 PM on 01/20/2010
Ok, I read the whole story at grist, and there's nothing about Ms. Obama taking on big ag. What's with the headline?
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totaldisbelief
390 Fans
12:00 PM on 01/20/2010
? Like her husband took on Big Insurance and Big Banking ?
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peewii
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06:36 AM on 01/20/2010
So far she is as useless as her husband.
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peowlemeow
Democrat,non-military,undereducated,overworked
192 Fans
11:59 PM on 01/19/2010
She can do it ! She's scary and she's the First Lady.
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Javani
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10:52 PM on 01/19/2010
Obama is a corn belt politician. He wins elections with Big Ag.
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roseau
241 Fans
08:53 PM on 01/19/2010
Go for it MO! If you can transform the diets of today's children (thank you, I've taken care of mine already) then the future of America's food will be in the hands of people, not corporations.
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MicheleCA
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06:34 PM on 01/19/2010
No!
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Cucaracha
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06:07 PM on 01/19/2010
LOL Ya right. I'm sure she's perfectly at ease tending her little garden and posing for photo ops.
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The Meek
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05:38 PM on 01/19/2010
Be a radical. Plant a garden if you can.
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totaldisbelief
390 Fans
12:01 PM on 01/20/2010
it's only a little bit harder than growing and maintaining that perfect lawn.
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RoloTomassi
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04:42 PM on 01/19/2010
What's she gonna do...brow-beat them into playing nice?

Besides, judging by her hubby's pro-corporate stances in other areas, I think even such symbolic actions on her part might promote marital disharmony....
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BannedNBoston
Is hemp legal yet?
112 Fans
04:04 PM on 01/19/2010
Think she will ever really get on Tom MONSANTO SEED LAW Vilsack's case ???
NEVER KING KORN OWNS DEMS!!!
The bottom 1/3 can only afford corn chips and 2 gallon mountain dews from sams club.
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jerrypl
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03:52 PM on 01/19/2010
If she takes on big Ag, and what they stand for, then she would have accomplished more than her husband while in the White House!!!

http://eye-on-washington.blogspot.com
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