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2005-06-13 Home Front: Culture Wars

AFP propaganda: More babies, young kids going hungry in US

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Posted by Spot 2005-06-13 10:48|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Bullshit. Pure Bullshit. Americans are the biggest and tallest people on the planet because we get more food at a young age. Our average height is near 5'10 for men, 5'8" for women. Other countries (non-first world) the average is 5'7" for men, 5'4" for women. Also, our IQs are increasing (see rantburg archives) because of better food and education.
Green veggies are not THAT expensive. We have to have all of ours shipped in and you can still buy a head of lettuce for $1.20. That and a 1lb bag of carrots for $1.50 will make you salads for several days.

Posted by mmurray821 2005-06-13 11:24|| 2005-06-13 11:24|| Front Page Top

#2 First we're too fat....now the kids look like Ethiopian refugees?

I wonder what's next from the AFP. Maybe an update of Swift's "A Modest Proposal"?

Posted by Desert Blondie 2005-06-13 12:42|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]">[http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com] 2005-06-13 12:42|| Front Page Top

#3 If we grind up all the baby ducks and kittens we can find into a nice, tasty gruel, that will help Save the Children™!

Posted by Dar">Dar 2005-06-13 13:02|| 2005-06-13 13:02|| Front Page Top

#4 Whatta load of BS!

IMHO, if any children are malnourished in this country, the parents of said kids (virtually all moms, I'd guess) belong in jail or, at least, to lose custody.

Posted by Xbalanke 2005-06-13 13:09|| 2005-06-13 13:09|| Front Page Top

#5 "A baby's brain increases 2.5 times in size in the first year of life"
As this AFP reporter proves, even a full-sized brain can be useless, especially if it is programmed in French.

Posted by Tom 2005-06-13 13:19|| 2005-06-13 13:19|| Front Page Top

#6 You know, my wife is from the Philippines and she is amazed by our welfare and 'the government will take care of you' systems. Where she comes from they simply don't have such concepts as 'Welfare' - if you are out of work you depend on your family and friends to help you out until you can find something.

She could not beleve that people would be paid money (and a lot of it by Philippine standards) for not doing anything. She also could not beleve that people would accept (much less expect as a right) such without remorse or any shame at all. But here people (and politicians) feel that it is a right that the lazy and slothful (I am not talking about the truely disabled here) get a free meal at the expense of the hard-working.

But then the left (this story is form Boston isn't it?) feels that the State is the 'family' - the state is 'all'.

Posted by CrazyFool 2005-06-13 13:46|| 2005-06-13 13:46|| Front Page Top

#7 Fact is if you take a poll in the US and ask if you've ever gone to bed hungry you'll get a lot of yes responses. Sent to bed without dinner, hungry. On a diet, hungry. Didn't get the second slice of cake, hungry. Puked up your dinner along with the dozen tequla shots, hungry.

Hunger is a relative term and I think they are misusing the term here through confusion or deception. I'm guessing deception.

Posted by rjschwarz">rjschwarz 2005-06-13 14:13|| rjschwarz.com]">[rjschwarz.com] 2005-06-13 14:13|| Front Page Top

#8 In some areas, green vegetables and fruit are impossible to buy -- even in a can, because there may be no supermarket.

It's true. There are areas in my city where the supermarkets, such as they are, don't even have a produce department. They had a big write-up about it in the local indy rag, moaning about what a tragedy it was. For me, the crucial quote came from the manager of one store who pointed out that they stopped carrying produce because NOBODY WAS BUYING IT.

Posted by BH 2005-06-13 14:22|| 2005-06-13 14:22|| Front Page Top

#9 Puked up your dinner along with the dozen tequla shots, hungry Lol rj! Been there, done that.
BH - that's right, lots of produce is wasted in any supermarket. Besides, they could still buy frozen or canned.
Those evil right-wingers forced me to eat the big mac and supersized fries!

Posted by Spot">Spot 2005-06-13 15:09|| 2005-06-13 15:09|| Front Page Top

#10 It takes a lot of work to make progress on social issues like this.... Let's just blame it on ~~Satan~~ Bush and move on to the next subject.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2005-06-13 15:33|| 2005-06-13 15:33|| Front Page Top

#11 mm821 yur being robbed produce wise. Never pay more than 80 cents for lettuce

Posted by Shipman 2005-06-13 16:18|| 2005-06-13 16:18|| Front Page Top

#12 I read about a "survey" a number of years ago (sorry, no link - too lazy to look for one) that had a quarter or some such of American children going to bed hungry every night.

Then somebody got hold of the questions.

Seems "hungry" meant the kids didn't get what they wanted to eat.

It wasn't that they didn't have food - they did. It was just that they wanted pizza and had to settle for hot dogs.

So you can understand why I have such a hard time even bothering with these kinds of stories.

Bullshit stinks. But then so does the Phrench AFP. For the same reason.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2005-06-13 16:21|| 2005-06-13 16:21|| Front Page Top

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