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The issue for conservatives about sugar is not whether the science tells us that it is harmful in the degree described, the issue for us as conservatives is the same as it is for global warming, evolution, string theory, etc.

In other words, conservatism has no opinion on the validity of science but it does have a very practical principle to apply to what we learned from science. I do not know whether sugar is as harmful as they say, although I believe that it is. However, my opinion in determining scientific validity is of no worth whatsoever but my opinion as a citizen demanding the freedom to enjoy sugar or abstain from it as I please is inviolate under conservatism.

I think the same should apply to tobacco and alcohol which have been mentioned on these threads and I even think it should even apply to drugs. We tried it the other way with alcohol but failed to learn completely a very obvious lesson.

Even without the harmful implications from the ingestion of sugar, I oppose sugar subsidies just as I oppose ethanol.

I feel the same way Nathan. I don’t smoke, don’t like it but will defend it. If not the they will come for my golf clubs next because 5 hours in the sun can’t be good for anyone.

Too many judges golf, bad example. Booze and golf will always be around bc of judges. But you know what I mean.

The problem as I see it (as others have stated) is that this is simply another avenue for legislation, taxation, litigation and bureaucratic overhead.

That is one of the aspects rarely discussed about government run health care. Once they do that, they can, by various mechanisms and laws, drill down into other aspects of life beyond immediate health care to attempt to control it via taxation (both individual and corporate) and legislation. Even as I write this, I still cannot believe it, but we have seen enough to know that it will happen.

In his book “Ameritopia” which I just finished reading, Mark Levin states something that made my jaw drop: according to him, the US spends more on legislating, monitoring and enforcing food laws than all monies earned by agriculture in this country.

I don’t have verification that is true, but if it is, it is things like THIS that make it so.