Pay to play. It's Obama's way and the Chicago Way: Obama ‘presidential ambassador’ scores major USDA school lunch contract

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – “There’s a lot of money involved in feeding our kids at school,” Michelle Obama recently toldchildren at the White House. Just ask Hamdi Ulukaya.

Ulukaya’s company, Chobani Greek yogurt, was the beneficiary of a “very fast” decision from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in 2013 to use Greek yogurt on a trial basis in four states’ school lunch programs.

The USDA normally takes years to consider a new product for the lunch program, but not this time. The feds approved Greek yogurt in just eight months, and awarded the contract to Chobani, New York Daily News reports.

Things just keep getting better for Ulukaya and his company.