First, they came for the Cheerios
The Obama FDA doesn’t like the font size of the cholesterol claims on Cheerios boxes.
Next, they’ll complain about the lack of leprechaun diversity on Lucky Charms boxes.
Washington raised ciggie taxes to pay for SCHIP expansion and are gearing up to raise soda taxes to pay for Obamacare.
No vice is safe from the health police.
Dijon mustard and arugula exempted, of course.
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Commenter WarEagle82: ” I wonder if Obama will tell General Mills they have to cut their advertising budget? Do you think he knows that General Mills is not the same as the OTHER GM?”
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As long as they don’t come for the Elephant on Cocoa Krispies!
I wonder if Obama will tell General Mills they have to cut their advertising budget?
Do you think he knows that General Mills is not the same as the OTHER GM?
But filling your house with mercury filled light bulbs is a virtue.
Welcome to Salem. It is 1692 all over again.
So basically, foods will need government approval, since they improve your health over – say – no food.
Michelle, did you wash your hands after cutting and pasting WarEagle’s comment?
Sounds like the same thought process into determining the definition of a right wing extremist.
I said “cutting and pasting”. Am I now on a list?
Oh man! Does this mean I have to like Cheerios again because Obama hates it? I stopped eating it when I read they had a commercial of another episode of “Dad’s a doofus and Mom knows best”.
Oh no….I’ll look for your picture at the post office!
Knowing this bunch they will tax sugar through the roof, which allow the Cubams to make millions when they set up a sugar cartel to smuggle it into the country.
We will have bootleg sugar. It’s getting to be that bizarre.
That gives me flashbacks to Eddie Murphy, 1982…
It’s amazing what a little authority will do to the mind of a fool…an advertising claim makes Cheerios a “drug”…huh? The libturds are entrenched everywhere…our only hope is to make it thru the 2010 elections…and I’ll be eating Cheerios all the way to the voting booth.
On May 12th, 2009 at 11:25 pm, WarEagle82 said:
Washington raised ciggie taxes to pay for SCHIP
That sounds more like a dispute over who controls advertising speech rather than just a dispute over the font size. It’s not about whether a claim is true anymore; it’s about whether you jumped through all the necessary hoops to get permission from the government before making the claim.
Soon we will need a prescription to buy an apple because someone once claimed that “an apple a day keeps the doctor away.” A claim that food can “cure” starving people would get all food classified as a drug. And don’t let anyone claim that water can cure dehydration and prevent people from dying of thirst. That would result in the FDA ordering months of double-blind studies on the safety of water before anyone would be allowed to take another drink.
I know that sounds silly. But when the FDA called CO2 a “pollutant”, I thought that was silly, too. A pollutant is something you try to get rid of because it is harmful. If we suceeded in getting rid of all CO2 from our atmosphere, it would kill off everything we use for food on the planet.
The manufacturer should immediatly do an all out PR campaign: “General Mills, the ‘GM’ that is too big to fail.”
In this month’s ‘Imprimus’, Mark Steyn mentions the
This is a glimpse at the future of ObamaCare.
Will elected conservatives tell the truth to Americans, or mumble our freedoms away?
There is nothing about this guy that doesn’t scare me!
I knew something was up when brainwashed seminar callers began harassing Rush today about “Big Sugar” and the need to tax refined sugar out of existance.
Maybe these intellectuals will be happy with Domino Sugar’s “Carbon Free” sugar. (I’m guessing that the C in the chemical makeup of sucrose, C12H22O11, stands for “Cookies”)
It’s simple. The cereal is “O” shaped, and The One can’t stand the competition. Chicago politics, eliminate anything that keeps the attention off of you.
The way the term “drug” is defined in the Federal Food Drug and Cosmetic Act (FDCA), the statute that the FDA is in charge of regulating, whether a product is a “food” or a “drug” (or both) very much depends on whether the manufacturer makes any claims about the substance’s ability to cure or prevent any disease – a drug is defined (in part) as a substance that is “intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease in man or other animals,” and this intent is almost always determined by what, if any, claims are made by the substance’s manufacturer.
This is just a bunch of legal mumbo-jumbo that will lead to nothing more than General Mills having to change a couple of words on the box. This type of stuff is nothing new, and disputes over these label claims happen many times every single year; the only thing that is unusual about this time is that it has gotten some press attention.
Will they be taxing wagyu beef?
I suppose it won’t be long before I see Obama on each tv commerical or food box, saying, “I’m Obama and I approve this commerical.”
I think its time the FDA became extinct. Think about it. Anyone recall the last time they were right about something? Recall any time they acted in the public good?
Me neither.
No I think advertisers and manufacturers will just be required to obtain the ‘Obama Seal of Approval’ from your local office of Obama
fordoes America. Fee’s to be determined on an individual basis.The Chicago Thug’s Imperial Presidency has taken root. May God help us all.
Zorro, God is done helping America. As a nation we’ve rejected Him and will now be given over to the destruction we deserve.
I could have spent a month working on a list of threats to this great country and nothing even related to the “oat” family would have made the list. Ok, maybe “Hall & Oates” but that would be it.
Osama bin Cheerio: http://thelcabroadside.wordpress.com/2009/05/12/osama-bin-cheerio-obama-vs-cereal/
Odopey is a Cereal killer.
Gee, when I read the front of a Cheerios box it says that it MAY lower cholesterol, not WIll.
Do you think this fiasco will wake up a few more people from their worship stupor?
In the course of your day, find some Obama voters, and thank them for having the foresight to understand the importance of electing a President who will, at long last, save the United States of America from Cheerios.
I agree, but they’ve brainwashed most of us into thinking that they keep us safe from germs. There’s some bill out there that would give them control over your personal vegetable garden! It is very frightening stuff for those of us who have seen historical accounts of socialists starving the people in other countries.
*gasp* To think I’ve been doping up my kids with cheerios all these years. I feel like such a failure as a parent. Thank goodness the government is there to watch out for my children and protect them from me.
Fox is carrying a story this morning saying Obama and the traitor Democrats who have taken control of our country will ram nationalized, socialized medicine down our collective throats by the end of the year whether we like it or not. Is there ANYTHING we can do to stop this idiocy? Can we REQUIRE any Republican running for office to SWEAR he or she will vote to REVERSE this nonsense if elected? I have personal experience with Canada’s health care, and it is truly scary. Why in heaven’s name we would throw away the world’s best health care system in order to socialize everything is beyond me. What in heaven’s name were people thinking when they voted for this Marxist? And returned a bunch of corrupt influence peddlers to power in the House and Senate? Man, I’m discouraged!
Always new there was a conspirancy behind Quisp being pulled off the market. Gonna keep wearing my armodillo hat.
There was a time when Americans voted with their wallet. Now we are forced to “vote” for one product over another through these taxes. I will be forced to pay because some one else has no self control over what they put into their mouths?
“Michael Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, told the Journal the tax would be fair because such drinks drive up health costs for everyone by contributing to obesity, diabetes and other illnesses.”
No, turd ball, these taxes will not be fair because i don’t overconsume these products. To be fair, there should be a tax on fat people in order to pay for their health problems. My health costs are not driven up because of obesity, because i pay for my own health care.
Ban buckwheat…it ain’t good for anybody.
It’s all a clever way of inventing government jobs for worthless people.
Michael Jacobson is a moron and hasn’t the first clue about the body’s need for sugar and what diabetes really is.
Is there no part of our lives Obama doesn’t think he can control or regulate?
Honestly. This is insane.
you won’t be finding pictures in the post office for people on that list…the obama youth will have them in hand when they come for you…lol
No. Next question…
Obama thinks General Mills is one of the guys leading the troops in Afghanistan and now he wants to be in charge.
Maybe if they changed the name to Changeos?
Lucky for ME, I don’t eat Cheerios, so in this instance I’m safe from Obama intrusion. I’d just as soon eat the box they came in.
I think I need to change my nick to WarEagle65, being as I also went to Auburn but graduated back when the world was a saner place. WAY saner. Or maybe I was. Now, not so much.
Now, next I want them to investigate all those gizmos that say they’ll give me really ripped abs in only 15 minutes a day. After all, they didn’t tell me I had to quit eating chocolate Zingers, too!
Then, I want them to investigate all those brands of beer that say if I drink them then all of those drop-dead gorgeous babes will just throw themselves at me.
Then, I have a few more suggestions.
Next: Cocoa Puffs are racist!
and I thought all those little “O’s” stood for “Obama”…
I would say, Put a big honkin’ tax on Kobe Beef…but since the Adolph Obama admin seems to serve it by the truckloads at their weekly Block Parties.. we hard working real tax payers, would fit that extra bill too.
No, Count Chocula is coo coo for Cocoa Puffs!
It’s not about font size or anything like that…
The Administration is in a snit over the use of the ‘O’ as the dot over the ‘i’ in the name. He’s the only one that can use that O!
Will someone tell the communist “commander in chief” that “General Mills” is NOT a member of the military and does NOT have to salute him or listen to him.
I quit smoking in April because they raised the taxes. I began drinking diet soda more than a year ago to keep my weight down……. so I will not pay any new tax on that. I am sure that the new messiah will institute a breathing tax before he is done. Then, I am screwed.
This (and everything else in government) is all about taxing us into oblivion…to the point where we have no money of our own and are forced into holding our hands out for gubmint to fill them with what they see we have need of.
Complete control…the Obama way.
See, Bogtrotter, they don’t actually want you to quit smoking–otherwise how will they collect those taxes?
I will not quit smoking. But I am seriously thinking about going to work for one of the big tobacco companies so I can get a reduced price on cigs… I don’t think they give them away any more.
I have mixed feelings on this issue. On the one hand I am opposed to seeing false claims on vitamins, magnets,… From my perspective this is medical fraud, and the public should be made aware of it. On the other hand, I agree with some of the posters in this thread that it is not about the claim, but more about some government agency being paid to make such claims. I expect the folks at General Mills will pay off these thugs, and in the end we will have to pay more money for the box of cherios. In the end, this is just another scheme to separate us from our earnings.
The Dems have been Pi**ing in our Cheerios for a long time.
BTW, I don’t have any problems with a cereal that provides soluble fiber making claims about the benefit of that fiber. If anyone wants to read more about this claim see this link:
http://healthpsych.psy.vanderbilt.edu/2008/Cheerios.htm
Should have known the government was going to get into your kitchen. They’ve been in your bedrooms and bathrooms for years.Always remember these words “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help”.
With childhood obesity and diabetes rates climbing higher each year, shouldn’t the FDA go after the cereals that are loaded with hidden sugars and fats while encouraging kids to make healthy food choices like eating Cheerios?
Where are the Obama administrations’ priorities -
Gee, I just got a letter from the government, signed by Obama. . .it says that I have to switch from briefs to boxers.
I started eating Honey Nut Cheerios everyday when my cholesterol tested borderline high. Six months later it is perfect and my cardiologist wants to recommend my diet to her patients.
I always suspected Cheerios were a drug, based just on their ability to immediately quiet a screaming toddler!!
Fixed.
Wow! That is outstanding! I’ll bet that you are a happy person!
When they pry them from my cold dead hands. Not that I’m all that crazy about Cheerios, but it’s the principle of the thing.
Same here! Plus Cheerios are so versatile: they can be roasted in a skillet with peanuts and a pat of margarine for one of the healthiest, best tasting snacks imaginable.
I wonder how many Americans would be alive or healthy if there had been no FDA.
If any of you answer by thinking that is silly, you believe in free goods. You would have to believe that the FDA has not cost anything in lives and health.
I think the net costs and benefits would be very interesting to see. I am not at all sure the net costs would prove too high.
Obama doesn’t like the font size of the cholesterol claims, GEITHNER EYES SMALL BANKS, Diversity as a means of re instituting the Fairness Doctrine, Federalization of medical records, Obama control of college loans and Pell Grants, ACORN in charge of the census and away we go.
I do not know how many Americans would be alive or healthy if there had been no FDA. I believe in clean water too. And neither one of those issues is reason to give rise to a fascist state which is exactly what Obama and Comrades are proposing/doing.
The FDA was given a mandate from Congress which it has tried to expand since it’s creation as has every other entity created by man. Yes Ragspierre the net cost of unbridled power is too great to pay.
These statist thugs are taking power not their’s to take; the time WILL come they will imprison and then kill the Resisters, the Counter Revolutionaries. Then they will turn on their own as did Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great, Lenin, Stain, Mao and Castro. And even the weakling and coward will see the error of his way–years too late. And how bitterly we will miss that Bill Of Negative Rights Reich’s Furhur Obama scorns.
Yes Ragspierre there is a whole lot here more than a box of cereal or font size and someday you WILL know it.Now with Obama’s boot firmly on the American neck the European statist can take off the velvet glove and rule as they have always ruled. Hail Ceaser Ragspierre ?
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The Patriotic Resistance
Geez, Arizona…
When did I appear to you to be a capitulator????
I’m the guy calling for a tax boycott, remember?
STARVE THE BEAST.
Ring a bell…?
More moves toward a fascist economy…
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124215896684211987.html
BIG BRO is now considering ways to cap the compensation of people in the financial sector who are NOT TARP recipients.
For those of you who know anything about economics, what happens when you put a price ceiling on anything, like rent controlled apartments?
Every company, every business and every person who makes money and even a profit these days is a target of the Obamanation Cummunist party. Marxism will snuff out any hopes of making money unless its for the state. Now their fingers are prying into foodstuffs. I have always said when Obama gets control over groceries and food makers we are in too deep. Hungry people will sell their soles to Obama for a piece of bread. Just like he wants it. A hungy, poor, non-religious, slaving populace for the state.. Sounds like Hope and Change to me.
Back up a minute… since WHEN was cholesterol itself considered a disease? The FDA has no ground here at all! If GM said that Cheerios prevents heart attacks then fine – that’s a drug claim but GM does not claim to cure any disease.
It is no different than claims on a milk carton for calcium or vitamin D – “builds strong bones”, etc.
Looks like the FDA is now becoming Obamafied and gauging the reach of their power. And that is REALLY what Obama is all about isn’t he? ELITE POWER.
Yeah, well I’m sure its a potential target with all those nasty, unhealthful, sugary marshmallow charms!
The left just can’t help itself – they thrive on more power. Only they can dictate what is good for us – we simply are incapable of thinking or acting for ourselves. They must do it for us….for our own good.
Pretty much everything that exists, as well as some things that only exist in the taxaholic minds of the left, if they can get away with it.
You beat me to it, aj!
Ironic. This from an administration of fruits, nuts and flakes.
It’s because if we eat Cheerios, we’ll live longer and be burdens to the State.
If they (the bureaucrats) are not stopped now, they will continue to try walking all over you unless you speak up.
Although the silver lining here is that these are the jokers with the sexist ad campaign that proclaimed the health benefits. You know the one, with the bitchy, sour-pussed wife and the wimpy husband who says “maybe it (Cheerios) should called “shut up, Steve.” To think that the audience of American women respond positively to that campaign. Put the ad agency and the executives who approved the campaign in Gitmo ASAP.
I think you’re on to something. Also may explain the FDA’s complete foulups on many related issues.
I think you’re on to something. Also may explain the FDA’s complete foulups on many related issues.
Best headline Evah.
First, they came for the Cheerios. But I said nothing, because I’m not a Cheerio.
And, clearly, the simple Cherrio discriminates against all three. So it’s a bigoted cereal to boot!
Rings a bell.
Am I OK, then…?
FIFY
Always, and always be on guard against ANY compromise with evil-sometimes these Servants of State Power wrap their garbage in shiny paper.
I kind of have a reputation for looking underneath the shiny paint.
In women or cars…!!!
But ESPECIALLY politicians…!!!
ooo, I like shiny things…can we talk about jewelry now?
See…???
I works with bass the same way…
Well, at least you didn’t call me a carp. LOL
Never…!!! I love, and understand, both bass and women…
I was talking to my husband & not paying attention to the TV at all, and then there was a report about that 7 ct blue diamond that was sold by Sotheby’s & I stopped talking (which is rare).
Mr spaceycakes laughed.