Posted on 06/05/2012 6:40:10 AM PDT by iceskater
I am not fat and I don't drink sugared soda. If the Mayor of New York decided to regulate portion sizes for sugared drinks tomorrow it wouldn't affect my life in the least -the idea is typical of the Mandatory Betterment class, and I expect nothing less. It's all the people who are so gosh-darned impressed with the Bold Initiative who rankle up the humours.
Let's get one thing clear: when the TV talk-show people lavish praise on the idea, it has nothing to do with some abstract notion of the costs of obesity. They just don’t like fat people. Fat people, at best, are a rebuke their own finicky vanity - I look good, why can’t you? - and at the worst, aesthetically unpleasant. If they all went away, the trim pert types woudl miss them after a while, and realize that people no longer came pre-packaged in a style that made them easy to dismiss.
A thin woman with three children by three men who can't get by is an object of concern. A fat women with two kids who can't get by is a toad, and probably a smoker.
A culture that redefines food choices as moral issues will demonize the people who don’t share the tastes of the priest class. A culture that elevates eating to some holistic act of ethical self-definition - localvore, low-carbon-impact food, fair trade, artisanal cheese - will find the casual carefree choices of the less-enlightened as an affront to their belief system. Leave it to Americans to invent a Puritan strain of Epicurianism.
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Nailed it.
You got that right, and i am not fat either and i eat what ever i dam please, i don,t drink soda but i drink coffee with sugar, the reason i am not fat is because i am about a hundred miles from any MacDonald or equivalent, :yeah right:
I just wish those what ever they are would just go back and crawl back into the rocks or what ever they came out of.
Many people really goes for all of that B.S though since if the government can tell them what to eat then it is also expected that it should feed them.
Isn’t Nanny Bloomberg more than a tad overweight himself??? Was he stalked and mugged by a 64 ounce sugary cola???
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