Donald Trump is taking on Michelle Obama's healthy food legacy

[DonViejo]

3 battlefronts in Trump's effort to make American food unhealthy again

Updated by Julia [e-mail]@voxmedia.com Apr 29, 2017, 12:48pm EDT

Trump brags about eating fast food. Michelle Obama planted a vegetable garden at the White House. Now it seems the President is quietly trying to overtake the former First Lady’s vision for the future of food in America.

Michelle Obama had a strikingly successful record of fighting the obesity epidemic and improving nutrition — both symbolically and through advocacy for legislation. But many Obama-era efforts to push the food industry in a healthier direction are now under threat.

Over the last couple of weeks, a number of reports have surfaced suggesting that the food industry is trying to capitalize on Trump’s anti-regulation agenda and push back on reforms aimed at making our food supply healthier. The food lobbyists, emboldened by the current White House, are reportedly pushing back on recent healthy food and transparency mandates that would hurt their bottom line.

Some of the key battlegrounds — school lunches, food and menu labels — are familiar terrain for anybody who has been watching the efforts to clean up the US food supply. Here’s a quick rundown of what’s been happening, and the top three areas to watch.

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[samnsara]

1. lets hope trump continues to eat all that fatty fast food!!!!

[Cha]

2. Yeah, let them all look unhealthy like trump instead

of glowingly healthy like Michelle.

[safeinOhio]

3. A cardiac event, soon, may

change all of that.

[Cattledog]

4. Healthiest President ever!

[WePurrsevere]

5. Dear Lobbyists, Here's how to hurt your companies bottom line...

Piss off consumers who are increasingly interested in and educated about healthy food choices and in knowing what has been added to what they, their children and furkids ingest.

Consumers have no problem pushing back against companies who they think deliver CRAP that's mislabeled 'food'. They will use their voice with their friends/family, on the internet, social media and where they spend their $$$.

[greymattermom]

6. And food companies can always tell you what's not in the food, right on the label

no added sugar, no high fructose corn syrup, no GMOs, no gluten. The government will have a hard time telling them they can't do that. Look at how well no gluten sells. Cheerios have no gluten (duh).

[WePurrsevere]

7. Right, and if food companies are smart they will or

Consumers will find a company that will.

One of the few things I have in common with some of the Republicans I've met up here is food safety and labeling so I'm pretty sure it's a non partisan thing to want to feed our kids, our critters and ourselves food that's not going to give us a deadly disease.

[smirkymonkey]

8. Just keep gobbling down that KFC Donny.

Sooner or later it will catch up with you.

[DrDan]

9. have another BigMac on me . . . with a large bucket of KFC . . .