Thread: Michelle Obama: Food Bully

In keeping with her quest to build a perfect society, First Lady Michelle Obama has embarked on a new campaign to encourage kids to eat more vegetables. Here's a rather humorous look at the issue. Made me chuckle.

Tuesday, May 8, 2012
GenVeg: WTF?

Have you heard about the GenVeg campaign? No, it’s not a new youth-vote drive. It’s a collaboration between Birdseye and Lady M to promote their frozen vegetables and her No Child’s Fat Behind program.

The Partnership for a Healthier America (PHA), which works with the private sector and its honorary chair First Lady Michelle Obama to end the childhood obesity crisis, today announced that Birds Eye, America's leading vegetable company, is launching a three-year effort to encourage kids to look at vegetables in a whole new way.



Carrots are people too

It’s probably just me, butt I’m not sure “GenVeg” is exactly what I’d call a campaign aimed at making kids “healthier.”

Seriously: there are so many ways for kids to “veg out” these days that encouraging more of it doesn’t seem to be such a good idea. Look at all the ways there are for kids to waste time, just hanging out:



So like I said, it’s probably just me butt I don’t think GenVeg is the most inspired name for the effort intended to support Lady M’s Let’s Move! campaign.

Anyway, I guess the operative term in this latest Government-Private Sector partnership is “America’s leading vegetable company” – and looking to stay that way. So I guess you could say that Birdseye knows which side of the plate it’s bread is buttered on.



Birds Eye will invest a minimum of $6 million over three years and is launching a campaign that celebrates and engages GenVeg —a generation of kids who want to eat and enjoy their vegetables. This marketing and advertising effort will encourage children to eat more vegetables by going straight to the source, kids, through a partnership with Nickelodeon's hit live-action series iCarly in 2012 and one of America's most well-known young stars who will serve as campaign ambassador, reaching kids where they are, on their level and in their own voice. [ed: their iPhones and iPods]

Birdseye credits the idea for their new campaign entirely to Lady M’s inspiration: it’s called propaganda! Big Guy’s reelection campaign is using it too. And it’s perfect for getting people to change their behavior. In other words, eat more frozen vegetables! Or in the case of Big Guy’s campaign, vote for four more years of eating your vegetables.

With the proper toolkit of carrots and sticks, you too can get people to do things that are good for them, butt they may not necessarily want to do on their own. Like buy an electric car made by Big Guy’s General Motors in order to save the world.

"Birds Eye understands that talking to kids differently about eating their vegetables is an important part of helping to change their eating habits.

And so, apparently, does the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, who wants the Wonce and Only to stop chowing down on unhealthy food in public. So that’s that: more veggies...

and no more dogs. At least not in public.

(I’ll stop when they stop)

So, we march on: with the Partnership for a Healthier America that was founded in 2010 in conjunction with Lady M to eliminate childhood obesity in one generation – and/or eliminate childhood hunger by 2016. I always get confused.

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So all I can say is “kudos Birdseye!” It looks like you too have learned how to play Obama-nopoly! Go past Go without stopping, get out of jail free – all while helping Lady M create the nanny state mindset required to abolish childhood obesity/hunger in one generation. You, Birdseye, are yet another in a long line of real American Heros!





Making children cry, one vegetable at a time. I hope you’re happy.

Now go to your room.

"S/He who controls the food, controls the people."

"A campaign that celebrates and engages GenVeg —a generation of kids who want to eat and enjoy their vegetables. This marketing and advertising effort will encourage children to eat more vegetables by going straight to the source, kids, through a partnership with Nickelodeon's hit live-action series iCarly in 2012 and one of America's most well-known young stars who will serve as campaign ambassador, reaching kids where they are, on their level and in their own voice. "

Trying to get kids to eat healthier foods through collaboration?

That (*)(*)(*)(*)(*)!!!

By the way, where was that scandal that your source was going to break... what was it, a year and 1/2 ago?

Originally Posted by toddwv

"A campaign that celebrates and engages GenVeg —a generation of kids who want to eat and enjoy their vegetables. This marketing and advertising effort will encourage children to eat more vegetables by going straight to the source, kids, through a partnership with Nickelodeon's hit live-action series iCarly in 2012 and one of America's most well-known young stars who will serve as campaign ambassador, reaching kids where they are, on their level and in their own voice. "

Trying to get kids to eat healthier foods through collaboration?

That's un-American! Kids need to be able to eat garbage. Health is for wimps.What kind of crazy non-sense are you trying lay on our poor youth?

In keeping with their quest to get even more corporate campaign contributions, the GOP has embarked on a new campaign to encourage kids to eat more junk food.

Originally Posted by junius, fils

In keeping with their quest to get even more corporate campaign contributions, the GOP has embarked on a new campaign to encourage kids to eat more junk food.

This is so much fun to watch ... I've never had more fun watching Conservatives make complete idiots out of themselves in my entire life.

The anti-vegetable bullies...

The new Republican ideal:

Are you going to eat that?