First they came for the lightbulbs...
Feds Consider Limiting Potatoes Offered to Kids
^...the Institute of Medicine, the health arm of the National Academy of Sciences, recommended that the U.S. Department of Agriculture stop participants of the federal Women, Infants and Children program, known as WIC, from buying potatoes with federal dollars. The institute also called for the USDA-backed school lunch program to limit use of potatoes.^
^Under an interim rule, the USDA agreed to bar WIC participants from buying potatoes with their federal dollars. Potatoes are the only vegetable not allowed. ^
So far, this is limited to those dependent on the government for their needs, a group the government dearly wants to make much larger.