I assume Surgeon General Regina Benjamin will be paying a lot of it.
Posted on 10/30/2011 3:07:19 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
‘Food Day’ was earlier this week, an event sponsored by The Center For Science In The Public Interest (CSPI). To celebrate the CSPI released their ‘Terrible Ten’ food list. It seems fitting that this list was released just before Halloween, as it makes ‘monsters’ out of food.
“Vending machines dispensing soft drinks and candy are the ubiquitous, mute, metallic monsters that promote unhealthy diets 24/7”, according to the list.
Even Toucan Sam is among CSPI’s list of terrors, “Kellogg’s Froot Loops, a fruit-less sugary cereal gussied up with synthetic dyes, is one of a host of junk foods marketed heavily to kids.”
While these items and other foodstuffs make the ‘terrible’ list, one thing the CSPI does not find terrifying during Halloween or any other season is more government regulation and taxation.
“Taxing soft drinks is an effective approach for cash-strapped federal and state governments looking for ways to fund health care and disease-prevention programs,” the CSPI website claims.
There are many calls to action on the CSPI website, from efforts to eliminate transfats to urging the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction to up taxes on alcohol related beverages.
“The committee's deliberations represent a timely opportunity for you to urge Congress to consider imposing a tax on sugary drinks and increasing the tax rates on alcoholic beverages. Such action would generate substantial new revenue and help reduce the economic and social costs of obesity and alcohol-related problems in the U.S.,” the CSPI website says.
All of this begs the question; which is more terrible - vending machines we can avoid? Or higher taxes and a larger government that we can’t?
Nanny State PING!
Food NAZIs can go you know where!!!!
Never fails, taxes the all mighty cure all while spending less is considered a crime to humanity.
Hades on a one way ticket!
I assume Surgeon General Regina Benjamin will be paying a lot of it.
The health of the revenue stream is all they're interested in, not the health of the public. When the Federal Government is telling fast food joints to serve apples rather than french fries and Congress Critters aren't afraid to come out of the bunkers they're hiding in the country is already only a shadow of what the Founding Fathers left us.
If CSPI is promoting it - it is against all conservative principals.
These people are EVIL. Always have been and always will be.
That would really hurt restaurants. People will just order water instead of soft drinks with their meals and cut the restaurant profits.
Whenever the title of the group has...”public interest” in its name it is evil.
I think I have figured out that the “Center for Science in Public Interest” is one old fat guy and a chick witn an ipad, both of whom have nothing to do but agitate.
Thanks for the ping!
You’re welcome!
” Food NAZIs can go you know where!!!!”
SandRat, Rush Limbaugh predicted about 8 years ago that the left would attack food next. He was right.
I predicted it about 15 years ago. Up until the last year or two, everyone I mentioned it to all said I was completely, hopelessly crazy.
I hate being vindicated.
: )
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