Ahahaha! Everyone else is as scarred as me.

OK, the product placement for a movie is ANNOYING AS FUCK.

Yeah, I added that additional money for fresh produce would be good for producers and comsumers too.

And it IS wider variety. When you have more money for food you can get a wider variety of food. When you have more money for meat, you can get less fatty meat. It's more money for poor people to eat better. That's a good thing.

This doesn't surprise me - the original purpose of the food stamps program was to help the agriculture industry, nsm to feed poor people. This is just government cheese with a new logo.

Yeah, same with a lot of the foreign food aid, which has totally screwed up the agriculture (particularly dairy) industries in a lot of developing countries -- we produce too much dairy, give it to those countries as food aid, and the price of the milk reconstituted from American milk powder is so much cheaper than local milk that the local dairies end up going out of business, so that there's no chance of rebuilding the local agriculture to the point where they don't need food aid anymore.

OK, the product placement for a movie is ANNOYING AS FUCK.

Yeah, that was blatant and gross.

I enjoyed the product placement for the car on White Collar a couple of weeks ago. It was blatant, but amusing to me.

Yeah, it sounds more like government largesse to meat producers -- which is an industry whose costs are already incredibly distorted -- rather than nutritional aid. Protein is available through lots of sources other than meat.

This doesn't surprise me - the original purpose of the food stamps program was to help the agriculture industry, nsm to feed poor people.

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Looks like the first one had a split: some stamps could be used for any food, some only for surplus.

When you've got too much food and hugry people you can address both those problems at once. Its pretty win-win, like cash for clunkers.

Half of U.S. children are going to be on foodstamps soon. Anyone who wants to lobby for further supplements should go for it.

The article isn't exactly without an agenda of its own. "Dumping food nobody wants" isn't exactly the only interpretation possible of what appears to be a combination of health concerns and people in a recession cutting back on more expensive foods. Not everybody considers all meat, dairy, eggs, and cheese akin to cigarettes as they are at the end of the article.

It's a little freaky when the first kid you babysat to teach you all about projectile vomiting friends you on fb and holy shit, he's a very attractive man. Like, seriously. It's just...weird. I changed his goddamned diaper. He barfed on me. Yet, seriously cut now. I can't reconcile the two.

Ugh - disappointing apple. And it's huge. I hate that!

Honey crisps from TJs. I've gone through 4 bags, and nary a bad one in there.