Michelle Obama profited from the same food industry she claims to be against

More proof that the “anti-obesity” movement is a fake movement funded by the food industry. And notice the connection to Kellogg. Read my blog to find the truth about CSPI’s “attack” on Kellogg – a corporate funder of NANA steering committee member American Dietetic Association.

Big Momma Michelle Obama: Food profiteer-turned-food cop
Michelle Malkin
May 12, 2010

Let me summarize first lady Michelle Obama’s anti-obesity agenda: Shed as I say, not as I gain. While she crusades for organic foods and puts government pressure on corporations to stop marketing fast food and junk food to children, Mrs. Obama herself profited from the very same processed food industry she now demonizes.

In June 2005, a few months after her husband was elected to the U.S. Senate, Mrs. Obama hustled a seat on the corporate Board of Directors of TreeHouse Foods, Inc. Despite zero experience, the food-processing company put her on its audit and nominating and corporate governance committees. For her on-the-job training and the privilege of putting her name and face on their literature, the company forked over $45,000 in 2005 and $51,200 in 2006 to Mrs. Obama — as well as 7,500 TreeHouse stock options worth more than $72,000 for each year.

The chairman of the TreeHouse Foods board, Sam K. Reed, was a top executive at Kellogg’s and Keebler Foods, home of that great menace to children, the Keebler Elf. Before that, he headed up Mother’s Cake and Cookie Company. The conglomerate sells cheese sauces, Cremora non-dairy creamer, instant soup, puddings and powdered soft drink mixes. Hardly the stuff of Mrs. Obama’s new vision of nutritional paradise. TreeHouse is also a leading supplier of pickles used in the burgers of evil fast food chain McDonald’s — exactly the kind of corporate restaurants Mrs. Obama is now targeting in her war on urban “food deserts.”

The corporation-bashing Mrs. Obama would have continued raking in her TreeHouse cash if it hadn’t been for her husband’s pesky pledge to pander to Big Labor and swear off Wal-Mart. The retail giant, you see, happened to be TreeHouse’s biggest customer. And Wal-Mart is to Big Labor as sunshine is to Dracula.

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“Fast Food Nation” author Eric Schlosser: Corporate shill posing as phony nutritional advocate

Comment: So I guess Eric Schlosser is fine and dandy with Monsanto having complete control over farming. Eric Schlosser is yet another corporate shill posing as a phony nutritional advocate.

Rush Limbaugh shills for McDonald’s and actually thinks CSPI “got rid of MSG”

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_070910/content/01125109.guest.html

Excerpt:

RUSH: I want to shout out big time today to McDonald’s.  McDonald’s, I love you.  I remember back in the days of the global warming craze when the wackos were suggesting don’t eat McDonald’s, don’t eat beef because it leads to cow methane causing global warming.  Remember I sent one of the Snerdleys over to McDonald’s in Times Square and picked up 240 Quarter Pounders with cheese and Big Macs and brought ‘em back to the studio and had the whole transaction take place on the phone, on the air, just to stand up and support McDonald’s.  And listen to this.  You know, the Center for Science in the Public Interest, this wacko bunch of leftist kooks, statists, nannies, these are the people that banned coconut oil from your popcorn in movie theaters, have gotten rid of MSG, the flavoring in Chinese food, they wanted to ban Chinese food.  These people want to get in your life and tell you what to eat.  If you look at these people you wonder if they’re barely alive, they’re skeletal, they’re miserable, they are unhappy, and they want to spread that misery to everybody else by having you eat basically nothing but tofu and cardboard, run around eating miniature rocks and berries as you traverse the deserts of the world.

Rush, I don’t think CSPI got rid of MSG. In fact, not even public pressure from TRUE, HONEST medical researchers has gotten rid of MSG. MSG is still in all the processed foods and the fast food…including Subway. You actually think CSPI got rid of MSG? If so, then why has CSPI shown itself to be an apologist organization for MSG? Rush is still trying to keep people in the phony left-right paradigm. He is counting on conservative dupes to fall for his “beware of the evil leftists” propaganda. Obesity is not about “left vs right”. The obesity epidemic transcends all phony sides of the fake left-right paradigm. “Liberal” foundation-funded organizations are just as much to blame for the obesity epidemic as industry-funded “conservative” organizations. CSPI and the Center for Consumer Freedom are two wings of the same Rockefeller bird.

Corporate shill Obama calls for bailout of corporate media to stifle rise of alternative media

Comment: Once again, Bushbama exposes himself as a corporate shill just like his predecessor George W. Bush. Let’s face it. The corporate media SUCKS. The problem is not the alternative media. The problem is that the corporate media product is SHIT. It’s just like how Microsoft puts out a shoddy operating system and drives people towards rival operating systems such as Mac OS X and Ubuntu. If the bailout of corporate media comes to pass, then mark my words: the next corporate bailout will be a bailout of Microsoft in order to stifle the rise of the free software movement.

Obama: We Need To Bailout Newspapers To Stop New Media Taking Over
President says preserving “mutual understanding” is critical to democracy

Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Monday, Sept 21, 2009

President Obama has stated that he is happy to consider bailing out the corporate media, expressing concerns that alternative internet based news outlets will grow in popularity as a result of the downfall of newspapers.

Obama told editors of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Toledo Blade that preserving the print media is “critical to the health of our democracy”.

“I am concerned that if the direction of the news is all blogosphere, all opinions, with no serious fact-checking, no serious attempts to put stories in context, that what you will end up getting is people shouting at each other across the void but not a lot of mutual understanding,” Obama said.

He also indicated that readers should be made to pay for online news content in the near future:

“What I hope is that people start understanding if you’re getting your newspaper over the Internet, that’s not free and there’s got to be a way to find a business model that supports that.” he said.

Over the past year, scores of newspapers have gone out of business or shifted to online only output, due to the rise of the alternative media and the resulting loss of ad revenue. Several large newspaper corporations have filed for bankruptcy, including the Tribune Co., owner of the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times.

Obama said he “would be happy to look at” legislation aimed at providing newspapers tax-breaks if they were to restructure as 50 (c) (3) educational corporations. Democratic Senator Ben Cardin has introduced a bill in this vain titled “The Newspaper Revitalization Act.”

Critics may point out that, far from being “critical” to democracy, a bailed out government subsidized media is the very antithesis of a “free press”.

Government Banking and Government Motors would effectively be joined by the Government Press if bailouts were to be granted.

Bailing out the corporate media would once again constitute rewarding outdated and failing monopolies with more taxpayer dollars, thus punishing innovative forward thinking competition.

Furthermore, there is absolutely no basis for bailing out the newspapers, given that they employ less than one percent of the labor force in the United States.

The dinosaur corporate media is dying because it has proven itself to be almost wholly untrustworthy, acting as an unquestioning mouthpiece for the establishment.

Denouncing all blog based media as unreliable or without context is laughable in the face of the mainstream media’s recent track record.

Obama: We Need To Bailout Newspapers To Stop New Media Taking Over President says preserving “mutual understanding” is critical to democracy

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Steve Watson Infowars.net Monday, Sept 21, 2009

From 2008: Monsanto and Cancer Milk: FOX News Kills Story and Fires Reporters

Comment: Funny how a “right-wing” news organization prevents an anti-Monsanto story from making it on the air, only for a “left-wing” President to make a Monsanto shill/lobbyist one of his first Cabinet appointees. Could it be that the “right-wing” and the “left-wing” are actually ONE AND THE SAME?!

FOX NEWS Reporters (Reporters Steve Wilson & Jane Akre) uncover that most of the Milk in the USA and across some parts of the world is unfit to drink due to Monsanto Corporation’s POSILAC®, which has been proven to be a cancer-causing growth hormone.(known in short as “BGH” “BST” or “rBGH” ), but they were fired for trying to tell people the truth.

(Important note: After a long court battle, the Court dismissed the whistle blowers protection for the reporters because the Court stated that there was no law to force that the NEWS state the truth! Fact! Going on to say the NEWS was no different than other TV shows/reality shows!!)

But the FDA has turned a blind eye once again!

If you consumed or fed regular milk to your family today (8/21/08), there is more than a 90% chance that it was from a cow injected with BGH

(Bovine somatotropin developed by using recombinant DNA technology).

You could be killing or harming your child every time you pour them a glass of milk, the same as pouring them a glass of slow acting poison.

Please take action to ensure our children’s safety, for they can not protect themselves.

What first alarmed farmers was the massive amount of PUS in the milk but Monsanto and the FDA still had no concerns by stating that the PUS was not harmful to be ingested by consumers!

If you have little children, at least feed them certified BGH free Milk, Organic Milk or Organic/BGM free milk equivalent like Organic soy milk.

Corporate hate radio: Air America’s resident Big Pharma shill Montel Williams tells GOP Rep. Michele Bachman to commit suicide

Comment: This is the kind of behavior I would expect from classless West Virginia hillbilly TroyFromWV who used to post YouTube videos of him calling up members of the 9/11 Truth Movement and calling them “America haters” and telling them to “kill themselves”. (I blogged about this on my old DC: Infowarrior blog and posted some videos of him calling up AE911Truth member Rose Aasen-Rojas and calling her a “spic”, even though she wasn’t of Hispanic descent, as well as a video of him calling up homosexual 9/11 Truth activist Carlos Milan in Florida and calling him a “faggot”.) I would expect a national radio host to be better than that, but I guess I was wrong. Montel Williams, you are a black TroyFromWV.

Montel Williams Urges Rep Bachmann to ‘Slit Her Wrist’ on Air America (Audio)

Related:

Big Pharma shill Montel Williams’ hiring by Air America exposes Air America’s corporate fake-progressivism

Obama’s Surgeon General nominee is a Burger King shill!

Comment: I guess it is now racist to be against fast food and claim fast food is killing people, even if you present evidence to prove the dangers of fast food.

“You say Burger King is killing its customers with aspartame and MSG? THAT’S RACIST! BURGER KING HIRES POOR-DOWN-ON-THEIR-LUCK BLACK PEOPLE ON WELFARE WITH CRACK ADDICTED BABIES! YOU AGAINST BLACK PEOPLE ON WELFARE WITH CRACK ADDICTED BABIES? THEN YOU BETTER SHUT UP ABOUT BURGER KING KILLING ITS CUSTOMERS WITH ASPARTAME AND MSG!”

And guess who owns the most stock in Burger King? Goldman Sachs. You can’t make this shit up.

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Obama’s surgeon general nominee advises Burger King
Helps fast-food giant put healthier options on menu

http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/aug/13/health-nominee-an-adviser-to-burger-king/

By Jim McElhatton (Contact)

Originally published 04:45 a.m., August 13, 2009, updated 01:14 p.m., August 13, 2009

President Obama’s nominee for surgeon general, whose job it is to help encourage Americans to get thinner and healthier, has been working part time as a scientific adviser to the fast-food giant that sells sandwiches like the Whopper and BK Triple Stacker.

Dr. Regina Benjamin, hailed by Mr. Obama for her efforts in running a health clinic in hurricane-ravaged rural Alabama, has been paid $10,000 since last year for serving on a scientific advisory board for Burger King, according to newly filed public financial disclosures.

The documents do not specify the scientific issues on which Dr. Benjamin advised the fast-food company, and her medical office in Bayou La Batre, Ala., declined a request for an interview. Burger King officials said Dr. Benjamin served on the company’s nutritional advisory panel, formed last summer as part of “ongoing efforts to promote balanced diets and active lifestyle choices.”

The Edelman public relations firm, hired by Burger King, recommended Dr. Benjamin and other specialists to serve on the panel, an Edelman spokeswoman said Wednesday.

Vicki Rivas-Vazquez, a spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Human Services, said Dr. Benjamin would resign her position from Burger King upon confirmation by the Senate. She also said Dr. Benjamin would recuse herself from any specific party matters involving Burger King for the next two years as part of the Obama administration’s ethics pledge.

“As the nation’s leading spokesperson on public health, she will continue to promote healthy eating and exercise,” she said.

“As third-party counselor bringing her expertise on public health on an advisory panel, she was advocating for food options that were lower in sodium and recommending that nutritional information appear on food packaging,” Ms. Rivas-Vazquez said of the nominee’s work on the Burger King panel.

Still, the existence of a financial relationship between a big fast-food company and a surgeon general nominee troubles Dr. Marion Nestle, a professor of nutrition, food studies and public health at New York University and author of “What to Eat.”

“Fast-food companies are not public health agencies; their job is to sell fast food – and the more, the better,” Dr. Nestle said. “For me, this would represent an impossible conflict of interest.

“I can’t speak for anyone else and I am aware of the counterargument that if you want companies to become more health conscious, you need to work from the inside. But in my experience, that argument does not hold.”

Dr. Stephen Cook, a child obesity specialist and assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Rochester, said he’s pleased that Dr. Benjamin disclosed the financial arrangement because “like any scientist, we should disclose our relationships.”

He also said it is difficult to draw any conclusions about Dr. Benjamin’s involvement with Burger King without knowing what she discussed with the company.

“We don’t know the content of those discussions,” he said. “Perhaps she was pushing them to make water or low-fat milk the default drink and lower the price of that compared to soda.”

Burger King, like McDonald’s and other big fast-food chains, has been under pressure to offer healthier fare in recent years amid concerns about the role of fast food in America’s obesity crisis. Public health advocates have long said fast food, while not the only factor, contributes to the nation’s obesity problem.

A recent study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, a private nonprofit research organization, found that having a fast-food restaurant within a tenth of a mile of schools was associated with at least a 5.2 percent increase in obesity rates among ninth-graders.

In 2007, the Center for Science in the Public Interest sued Burger King in Washington, D.C., over its use of trans fats, but the company stopped using the product and a judge eventually threw out the lawsuit. The case is under appeal. Doctors say trans fats raise bad cholesterol levels and can increase the risk of heart problems. Many big fast-food chains have stopped using trans fats.

Among other moves in recent years, Burger King has been offering fresh-cut, skinless apple slices made to look like french fries at its locations across the country. The company in 2007 also said it was restricting ads for unhealthy food aimed at children.

Since her nomination, Dr. Benjamin has won support from both sides of the political aisle. Rep. Jo Bonner, Alabama Republican, said Mr. Obama “did himself and his administration proud” in picking Dr. Benjamin. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, called her “an excellent choice.”

Like Mr. Obama, members of Congress praised Dr. Benjamin for running a small rural clinic and rebuilding it after fire and hurricanes.

“When people couldn’t pay, she didn’t charge them,” Mr. Obama told reporters last month. “When the clinic wasn’t making money, she didn’t take a salary for herself.

“When Hurricane Georges destroyed the clinic in 1998, she made house calls to all her patients while it was rebuilt,” Mr. Obama said. “When Hurricane Katrina destroyed it again and left most of the town homeless, she mortgaged her house and maxed out her credit cards to rebuild that clinic for a second time.”

The Burger King advisory position is one of several outside jobs that Dr. Benjamin has held since last year, according to her disclosure form.

She also reported receiving more than $20,000 for serving on another advisory board at Nebraska-based ConAgra Foods, one of the country’s largest food producers with products such as David Sunflower Seeds, Crunch ‘n Munch, Healthy Choice and Chef Boyardee.

Dr. Benjamin reported more than $90,000 in earnings from her former role as chairman of the Federation of State Medical Boards and $8,000 for being an expert witness for the American Medical Association.

In addition, she received meeting and speaking fees ranging from a few hundred dollars to $7,000 for appearances with groups such as the California Hospital Association and Kaiser Family Foundation.

http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/aug/13/health-nominee-an-adviser-to-burger-king/