A world-wide famine!
Think of all the obese people whose lives would be saved... for a little while.
Personally I think the rising cost of food will help with that. I went to the market today bought a loaf of wheat bread, a loaf of sour dough a dozen eggs and 8 oz of cheese. The cost was $9.32.
When did 7 blade roast start costing $7.99 a lb, can’t even make a pot roast. (enough rant)
Keep using food a fuel and they mey get the famine they want.
The UK doesn’t get it. When you start making food..any food... too expensive by TAXES..the food riots will make the thug party look like a picnic.
How about fines for being too obese. Have them report to weigh stations every other day.Make them were ankle weights. There are not enough big government controls already. What we need is more. NOT.
These regulators of all in the kingdom, are like fat cows, grazing on one regulations issue until it is worked to death, and moving on to the next. All the while, they are throwing out massive cow pies to gum up the system.
> Harvard prof, medical journal: Food taxes, regs solution to
> global ‘obesity epidemic’
Which of us is surprised that a Harvard publication would advocate more taxes and bigger government?
You know, when I was a kid growing up in the 50s and 60s, fatties were rare. There was usually some kind of glandular or metabolic problem that caused kids to be fat.
Because *ALL* of us were outside PLAYING HARD all day long in the Summer, after school in the winter, and on Saturdays. We played baseball, basketball, hockey, ice skating and sledding just for the thrill of it. You know, when you sled down a big hill, you have to walk back up towing your sled behind you.
We had no cell phones. Many of our homes did not even have telephones or TV. Nobody worried about where we were or what we were doing. There were no perverts to bother us, because we usually gathered in groups, were pretty tough, and the authorities electrocuted and hanged perverts or put them in jail for life.
I would leave after breakfast and my mom wouldn’t see me until supper. If she wanted me for something, she would send one of my uncles or siblings to find me. I could usually be located at the park, or at the swamp (skating) or at a friend’s house.
As teens, we WORKED HARD at mostly physical labor in factories or construction. That’s how a lot of us paid for college. I worked at one of the family businesses after school, and on Saturdays, and on Sundays, I worked at the car wash.
I never had any trouble with weight, except that I was a bit skinny, even though my Italian mama cooked the world’s best meatballs and we STUFFED ourselves indiscriminately.
We ate large, played hard, worked hard, and never, ever got fat.
We don’t need any more government regulations or taxes. What we need is for the government to burn the perverts and get out of the way so the kids can work and play and eat the way God intended.
If we’re so damn unhealthy (aka fat), how come we’re living so long. The majority of the elderly people (over 80) that I know are overweight and have eaten meat, potatoes, bread, butter, eggs and chocolate cake or apple pie all their lives. And they’re not on meds.
...the world has seen “four decades” of a “rising obesity epidemic...
Four decades ago the left was telling us how in 4 decades there would be world-wide famine. Wish they’d be a little more consistent in their fear-mongering.
Harvard professors are the problem
Tax my raisin cookies, and it’s war!
Nanny State PING!
Peer reviewed = your fellow Researchers/grant junkies skimmed your report and liked the pre determined conclusion.
As long as the taxpayer money keeps flowing who cares? Except those people who like their freedom and value honesty.
Peer reviewed = your fellow Researchers/grant junkies skimmed your report and liked the pre determined conclusion.
As long as the taxpayer money keeps flowing who cares? Except those people who like their freedom and value honesty.
That said, once one gives Government the authority to ban harmful substances from user discretion, one also grants Government (or government will usurp) the authority to regulate any substance one consumes, including food.
Now there is just one more excuse to kick down the front door, stomp the kitties and shoot the dog.
It has been a boon to the nanny industry via Toboacco, why not expand it for further cash influxes....