Diet Laws
I am all for improving America’s diet. I just don’t think the government needs to be so heavily involved. As a physician, it should be us giving the advice but I admit that I don’t think we have all the right answers yet. Are grains the problem? Has fat been maligned for the wrong reason? I agree that that trans fatty acids are bad but will saturated fats make a comeback? Processed food is a major culprit but how do we get it out of the common person’s diet? The WSJ did a nice piece entitled the Tax Code Diet. Check it out. The editors have issues with a government-led diet transformation “across all levels and sectors of society” where we turn over a large part of fiscal policy to a scientific committee. The panelists want to expand farm subsidies—entitlements for plants and animals—to include fruits and vegetables. As the article says, they would have done “far better to endorse an end to subsidies for row crops like corn, which become low-quality calories via refined starches and high-fructose corn syrup.” I really can’t see how the government can eat for us and when politics and new diet regulations come together only bad things can happen. That scares me.
The problem is simple, make veggies taste like French fries! If real food tasted like junk food, there would not be a obesity problem.
Here is an opportunity for Monsanto to genetically modify vegetables and fruits to taste like hamburgers,fries, ding dongs and fuzzy drinks.
In stead these jerks are putting bug poisons and herbicides INSIDE our food!
Looking at how the government handles the budget, I don’t want them telling me what to eat!
IF one subscribes to the notion that gov’t should provide routine health care (along with all levels of education, retirement planning, child care, “fair” housing, ad nauseum) then it logically follows that the entity which provides for our care also tells us what to eat. In fact, this is what the vast majority of the electorate deserves, for buying into such bad ideas.