I do not think so.
I think all the talk about how the school vending machines are the source of the growing problem of america being over weight is unfairly aimed at the vending machine as the culprite.
Ones choices of what they eat is not influanced by buzz words like healthy or good for ya as consumers are catching on to these as just that buzz or marketing words.
It has come back time and time again to bite us on someone saying something is unhealthy for you only later to find out they were wrong. Now if a product is so unhealthy for you and is killing us then why is it even offered to us in the 1st place?
It is not the products that make you fat, it is the lack of excersise and higher levels of stress are major contributors to the problem also.
Why if government is so concerned with these so called bad for you products sold out of vending machines, you can go and buy the same products off the store shelves with an EBT card?
According to the USDA website artical or publication labeled
IMPLICATIONS OF RESTRICTING THE USE OF FOOD STAMP BENEFITS - SUMMARY
And I copy from them this wording:
(No clear standards exist for defining foods as good or bad, or healthy or not healthy.)
So then how are you now saying well these foods in the vending machine that meet these criteries are bad for you? I thought you ahd no way of determing or defining good from bad?
If you say you can not have standards for the EBT program then how can you now say you will have standards for vending machines?
Here is the link to the
IMPLICATIONS OF RESTRICTING THE USE OF FOOD STAMP BENEFITS - SUMMARY
It reads like the government is saying that the vending machine industry is selling products that are bad for our kids but it is allowing parents to buy the same products and use government funded funds to do so from the grocerie stores.
How is it fair that our tax dollars are being used to campain against our industry and agencies are saying that the products being sold are unhealthy and need to be taken out of the vending machines but we as an agency do not feel it is worth the cost to also monitor what products are being sold and apply the same restricions on the EBT systems as on the vending machines?
You can not say in one breath that certain products are unhealth and have to be removed from vending machines but in the print say
No clear standards exist for defining foods as good or bad, or healthy or not healthy.If it is ok for the stores to sell these same products on their shelves and even have the people tax dollars pay for these products by use of a federal government issued payment system how is it not ok to sell the same products out of a vending machine without being singled out as a bad industry?
The problem I have here is our industry being made out to look like this epidimic of overweight people in the US is the vending machines fault and it is not.
Vendweb.Com
We need to understand that it is not fair for any type of
