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If a pretzel were dipped in yogurt, would the pretzel also be considered a state snack?
Would lactose intolerant New York residents feel left out, or even insulted?
Would the Senate be “offending other foods that are produced and popular in the state of New York”?
What about the carrot cookie?
Would this dim the spotlight on the state’s official muffin, the apple muffin? Was Mr. Ranzenhofer maybe being a little too hasty about all this?
Did the senate know enough about its constituents’ snacking preferences? Should there be a statewide poll?
... the New York Senate is also still mulling over, among other things, a bill introduced four months ago that would require all police departments in the state to videotape interrogations in full. The state has had 23 wrongful convictions overturned through DNA evidence, according to the bill; in 10 of them, the innocent person falsely confessed to the alleged crime.
Guess who's behind that?
originally posted by: Maluhia
a reply to: intrptr
Guess who's behind that?
On this forum - no guessing necessary!
Unfortunately, that freight train is full speed ahead. I just wish stories like this would at least get some attention so that even if people don't "get" what's behind it, they might still get outraged at the colossal waste of time and money government is. Might be a start.
originally posted by: intrptr
a reply to: Maluhia
It takes forever for them to do stupid stuff like this. However when the need for billions in the name of "Defense" arises, you watch how quick they all agree and sign the bill.
Chuck Schumer Engineers USDA Greek Yogurt Subsidy
The New York senator helps land a sweetheart deal for a politically-connect yogurt company.
Abby Wisse Schachter | July 31, 2013
The answer is because a Democratic senator (Schumer) working with a successful and politically-correct business (Chobani) exerted as much pressure as they could on a willing USDA. Chobani spent at least $80,000 on lobbyists and that was after Schumer had started his Greek-yogurt campaign with the USDA. And remember too that Greek-style yogurt has already been touted as “one of the best private sector market opportunities upstate New York has seen in 30, 40 years,” declared Gov. Andrew Cuomo last year. So of course he was happy about the USDA announcement. “It is a win-win for the state, exposing our students to a nutritional product and expanding the marketplace for Greek yogurt producers and suppliers in New York State,” Cuomo said. About other private sector opportunities in New York, like say, extracting natural gas from the Southern Tier, well, he’s been quite a bit more recalcitrant, with the moratorium on drilling remaining in place for more than half a decade.
The straining process used to make Greek yogurt products creates a natural byproduct called acid whey, which contains lactose, lactic acid from the fermentation and a small amount of dairy proteins and milk salts like calcium. If you’ve ever opened up the product, you will notice some of the whey still topping the cup. That’s because it’s healthy to eat within certain amounts. The rest is removed, and particular care must be taken with its disposal.
McWilliams is a food and agriculture writer as well as a history professor at Texas State University. He argues that, “Anything is potentially toxic. But the acid whey that's a byproduct of the Greek yogurt industry is, at the level at which it's produced and disposed, toxic enough to rob aquatic ecosystems of enough oxygen to harm fish and other species.”
The Safe Act? Just less than 30 minutes
Greek yogurt may be high in protein, but so are a lot of other, less expensive and less politically-connected food products. Adding Chobani to the school lunch program is just a fat-lot of government cronyism
Chobani spent at least $80,000 on lobbyists and that was after Schumer had started his Greek-yogurt campaign with the USDA. - See more at: www.abovetopsecret.com...
originally posted by: Maluhia
After intense debate, New York Senate chooses yogurt as state snack
Yep, one hour on what the official "snack" of the state should be. But, alas, many intelligent questions were put forth, such as -
Makes me proud to pay taxes to cover the salaries of these folks.
Ummm, our only hope is to convince someone that yogurt is clearly racist because it's white, and by someone I mean Al Sharpton.