Posted on 09/28/2004 6:32:14 AM PDT by badass4bush
The Center for Consumer Freedom warns in our latest ad -- featuring the actor who played the "Soup Nazi" on Seinfeld -- that if calorie cops have their way, you could be forced into the Salad Line! (To see the ad, click here.) While this fictional food cop measures each customer's weight to determine what, if anything, restaurant-goers can enjoy, there is actually a real-world food "Czarina" taking away treats from Texas schoolchildren. She's just one of the food fascists who think you're too dumb to make your own choices. If these diet scolds have their way, we may all soon be told (as the star of our latest ad says): "No food for you! Come back when you're thinner!"
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I saw it this morning. It was good.
With the amount of overweight people that I see throughout the course of my daily life...the above statement holds some truth. Its also ironic some of the lards I see in the grocery checkout line paying with food stamp/food cards. Personal responsibility and having the discipline to take care of oneself went "out of style" years ago. Remember, liberalism works side by side with self-hate. Some people need a nanny for everything. Its disgusting.
Where were all of these articles when they took away the freedoms and rights of smokers and restaurant owners who wanted to cater to smokers?
The Double Standard should not be allowed to happen. I say let the food nazis win a few so everyone can see how it feels to have a personal choice negated by a few folks with junk science.
Social engineering at its worst. And the justifications? The socialistic entanglements that keep wrapping tighter around us. 'Medical care,' 'insurance costs,' the 'costs to society.' Since the state gets involved with many medical expenses, that provides a rationale for regulation and litigation. The mechanism that allows this kind of 'food-Nazism' (or 'tobacco-Nazism,' etc.) begins with that socialist 'safety net.' It should be pointed out that a net can hold you up or pull you down.
I persoanlly try to eat a healthy diet and choose not to drink very much soda and I love salad. I probably eat the way the crowd that is pushing for all this control says they want people to eat. But it is my choice, we all should have a choice. It was easy for so many to ignore the smoking nazis if we weren't smokers, but sooner or later the legislated control of our lives settles down to a level that will greatly effect how each of us can choose to live our lives if we don't stop it. We all vote with how we spend our money, we should have that freedom. Bars and restaurants are just dying here in Lexington, KY since the smoking ban. The great irony is that many of the Health Dept. people that scream about the need for the ban here appear on TV looking like they have had way more than one too many Big Macs themselves.
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