Time for breakfast:
"Government still stocks vending machines with junk food" Washington Post October 04, 2014
WASHINGTON — The health food movement might have taken over public school lunches, but it hasn’t trickled down enough to alter the contents of the country’s vending machines.
School lunchroom still smells the same.
A new analysis of nearly 1,000 vending machines on state and local government-owned properties by the Center for Science in the Public Interest found that food dispensers at parks, courthouses, city and town halls, libraries, public hospitals, state university campuses, and highway rest stops around the nation are filled with, well, junk.
Same at bu$ine$$es, too.
Indeed, more than 75 percent of all items found in the vending machines containing food were candy, chips, and cookies, according to the findings.
Looks like a healthy mix to me. You got your sugars, your salts, and your grains. Now get back to work and get moving.
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‘‘It doesn’t make much sense to have a big obesity prevention effort and then sell soda and candy out of their own vending machines to their employees, program participants, and visitors,’’ said Katherine Bishop, a nutrition policy associate at the center.
Because the agenda is not about health and obesity; it is about getting the rabble to accept less while the political cla$$ and its ma$ters grab more, more, more!!!
Federal, state, and local governments don’t stock the vending machines themselves — vending machine retailers do. But altering the contents of food and beverage dispensers at city halls and public parks around the country is within government’s power.
And just watch the fresh food spoil. That'll help the stocking companies profits (usually stocked by Coke or Pepsi).
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(Warning: do not shake machine if item is stuck: please deposit more money and purchase same item to hopefully free both. Thank you).
