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It's not just crap, it's poison. It slowly kills you from the inside out. I can't believe people feed it to their kids with all the hormones, chemicals, and antibiotics, not to mention the sugar, salt and saturated fat in that stuff. It's not food.
I really have to put my blinders on about all that stuff.... I'm reasonably healthy for my age, and have consumed the stuff all my life. I enjoy certain things, and I have no intention of changing my habits to any great extent. Yes, I'm trying to watch portions, and try to buy low-fat, high-fiber versions of things at the grocery store & have started moderate exercise recently, but I'm not going to get up on any soapbox about it!
It's all about the market in the good ol' U.S. of A..... At least until Those Currently in Power change that part..
If there's a market for that, let them have it. As long as the establishments themselves are aesthetically pleasing, I have no problem with them at all.
The so-called "market" for food isn't anything remotely close to a free market. If the government would get out of agribusiness, the price of this crap would skyrocket. If we as tax payers are going to all pay for not only this crap, but for the dire health consequences it wreaks on our society, "Those Currently in Power" should be regulating the quality of this, uh, "food." We require warning labels on the poisons under our sink, we should also warn people about the poisons in our food supply. There should at least be a big fat warning label on your whopper, if not an outright ban on serving it to people under 18.
The so-called "market" for food isn't anything remotely close to a free market. If the government would get out of agribusiness, the price of this crap would skyrocket. If we as tax payers are going to all pay for not only this crap, but for the dire health consequences it wreaks on our society, "Those Currently in Power" should be regulating the quality of this, uh, "food." We require warning labels on the poisons under our sink, we should also warn people about the poisons in our food supply. There should at least be a big fat warning label on your whopper, if not an outright ban on serving it to people under 18.
There should at least be a big fat warning label on your whopper, if not an outright ban on serving it to people under 18.
More government regulation to spend more of our tax dollars? Ummm, don;t think so.
If people eating a Whopper are too dumb to know that it is unhealthy, then maybe their lives deserve to be shortened. Weed out the dumb!! Sort of joking, of course, but really.....this isn't brain surgery.....most any kid over the age of five knows that a Granny Smith Apple is healthy and a Whopper is unhealthy.
More government regulation to spend more of our tax dollars? Ummm, don;t think so.
If people eating a Whopper are too dumb to know that it is unhealthy, then maybe their lives deserve to be shortened. Weed out the dumb!! Sort of joking, of course, but really.....this isn't brain surgery.....most any kid over the age of five knows that a Granny Smith Apple is healthy and a Whopper is unhealthy.
Agreed. If people are dumb enough to eat this stuff then they deserve the consequences without my tax dollars going towards it. Our government already regulates things and taxes us to death enough. Pretty soon they'll start regulating how much oxygen we breathe and tax us for how much of it we use. However, there are obese people who have to go to the hospital from eating too much junk food and can't afford the bill. Guess who pays for it then?
It's not just crap, it's poison. It slowly kills you from the inside out. I can't believe people feed it to their kids with all the hormones, chemicals, and antibiotics, not to mention the sugar, salt and saturated fat in that stuff. It's not food.
Like with the Reedy River thread, I wouldn't feed this stuff to my dog if I had one.
Let people eat what they want to. We need less government intervention, not more. The risks and benefits of eating certain things are readily available for people who have the interest in obtaining the information. And for those who choose to eat crappy food a majority of the time, they can be free to pay for any health consequences that result. This is not complicated.
Let people eat what they want to. We need less government intervention, not more. The risks and benefits of eating certain things are readily available for people who have the interest in obtaining the information. And for those who choose to eat crappy food a majority of the time, they can be free to pay for any health consequences that result. This is not complicated.
I agree. Education, not regulation, is what's needed.
However, folks seem to be de-sensitized to the real, direct health consequences of smoking, despite decades of campaigning by the government against it. For better or worse, the most you can do in a truly free society is to make sure people know the risks and costs of certain actions.
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Sort of joking, of course, but really.....this isn't brain surgery.....most any kid over the age of five knows that a Granny Smith Apple is healthy and a Whopper is unhealthy.
