Michelle Obama's Obesity Initiative

http://www.futureofcapitalism.com/2010/02/michelle-obamas-obesity-initiative

Michelle Obama's campaign against childhood obesity was the subject of a post here last week. Now Christopher Caldwell has a take in the Financial Times that is worth a read:

An intriguing possibility that Mrs Obama brings up, surely unintentionally, is that the root cause of poor child nutrition is feminism – or at least the two-earner family. Mrs Obama said that, before she came to the White House, "juggling a full-time job with the round-the clock role of being a mom" left her "unable to cook a good meal for my kids, going to fast food a little more than I'd like, [and] ordering pizza, and I started to see the effects on my family, particularly my kids"

Mr. Caldwell concludes: "the budget is the place for such programmes, not some pseudo-democratic 'initiative' that relies for its effectiveness on exhortation and scapegoating."

by Ira Stoll  |  Feb 15, 2010 at 11:32 am Related Topics:  President Obama, Press receive the latest by email: subscribe to the free futureofcapitalism.com mailing list