[Diana in Wisconsin]

Hey! Since we're defending smokers and bar businesses and Wal-Mart, let's defend the "obesogenic food environment" while we're at it too, LOL!

[Just A Nobody]

I was just going to ping them! ;*)

After reading this thread, we may not have to bother fighting anything soon.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1585913/posts

[Gabz]

"obesogenic food environment"

WHERE do these people come from???????????

[bubman]

'It may take a special tax to help fight what one Canadian sociologist calls the "obesogenic food environment" - the junk food that's prominently displayed in supermarkets and schools.'

OK fine how about a tax credit for buying fruits and vegetables? Or tax credit for sneakers and gym gear? Or how about a tax credit for keeping your BMI within the prescribed boundaries?

Alarmists (almost always Lieberals) will tax you to death in order to try and save you!

Common sense cannot be legislated.

Liberals imposing tyranny one small tax at a time!

I have avery simple solution for this moron: M-O-V-E T-O C-U-B-A! Noone there has this problem.

[DakotaRed]

Actually, it's a defense of everyone's freedom to choose for themselves without some government "I know better than you" agency mandating what we may and may not do from cradle to grave.

Seems to me, if I remember history, that was one of the reasons for this nations founding, to let the people make their own choices individually.

Not even 300 years and we are rapidly returning to what our founders rebelled against. (all in the name of Public Health, of course)