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Food should be regulated like tobacco, say campaigners
BBC News ^ | May 18, 2014 | By Pippa Stephens

Posted on 05/18/2014 9:19:26 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

The food industry should be regulated like the tobacco industry as obesity poses a greater global health risk than cigarettes, say international groups.

Consumers International and the World Obesity Federation are calling for the adoption of more stringent rules.

These could include pictures on food packaging of damage caused by obesity, similar to those on cigarette packets.

The new rules could include reducing the levels of salt, saturated fat and sugar in food, improving food served in hospitals and schools, imposing stricter advertising controls, and educating the public about healthy eating.

Artificial trans-fats should be removed from all food and drink products within five years, said the recommendations.

Advertising to children, during television programmes such as the X-Factor, must be restricted, said the organisations.

Governments could review food prices, introduce taxes, change licensing controls and start new research to make this happen, the report said.

Luke Upchurch at Consumers International said they were asking for the "same level of global treaty" as the tobacco industry faced.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 1984; asswipes; foodnazis; marxism; nannystate; tyranny
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Wake up people! These statists are crazy.
1 posted on 05/18/2014 9:19:26 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Where do these groups get their funding? Follow the money..


2 posted on 05/18/2014 9:24:27 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob (They are called "Liberals" because the word "parasite" was already taken.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
People just can't get enough of the idea of a World Dictatorship. They'll get their self-opposing wish for misery and oppression soon enough. But as the line in the movie, Gladiator, goes, "But not yet."
3 posted on 05/18/2014 9:26:53 PM PDT by PapaNew
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Salt does not cause obesity OR heart disease.

Fat (saturated or unsaturated) does not cause heart disease.

Like Michelle Soetoro, these Fascists are trying to make all of us live by totally exploded dietary theories.


4 posted on 05/18/2014 9:27:10 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Ve vill control everyzing in your lives, including how long you live. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA


5 posted on 05/18/2014 9:27:55 PM PDT by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
What better way to control the masses than to control food production
and food transportation
another " An Gorta Mor " ??
Statisits = Slavery, subjugation , and SUBMISSION !!
6 posted on 05/18/2014 9:28:15 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt (Political Correctness is Tyranny .. with manners ! Charlton Heston)
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Food should be regulated like tobacco, say campaigners

I agree! Deregulate tobacco!

7 posted on 05/18/2014 9:30:21 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Though this is a BBC story, in a related piece, Ann Barnhardt just posted on Twitter that the USDA got 40 cal sub machine guns with 30 round clips. Guess they will get serious with enforcement of the food laws.


8 posted on 05/18/2014 9:31:16 PM PDT by rey
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Amen


9 posted on 05/18/2014 9:32:12 PM PDT by Nifster
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It was only a matter of time.

You can not compromise with socialists EVER. Your capitulation is their power.

Never give up. Never. Never. Never.


10 posted on 05/18/2014 9:32:58 PM PDT by Ray76 (True change requires true change - A Second Party)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

control the production of food
control the distribution of food
control everything


11 posted on 05/18/2014 9:33:10 PM PDT by svcw (Not 'hope and change' but 'dopes in chains')
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Good news, Comrades!

The weekly chocolate ration has been increased from 25 to 20 grams!


12 posted on 05/18/2014 9:34:10 PM PDT by seowulf (Cogito cogito, ergo cogito sum. Cogito.---Ambrose Bierce)
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WE DON'T NEED ANY MORE (EXPLETIVE DELETED) GOVERNMENT REGULATION AND CONTROL! THESE (EXPLETIVE DELETED) PEOPLE ARE (EXPLETIVE DELETED) CRAZY!
13 posted on 05/18/2014 9:34:54 PM PDT by Sen Jack S. Fogbound
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God almighty. First let us start regulating these abject fools. Is there nothing these poltroons do not want regulated? If these buffoons get their way, we will all be in internment camps soon.
14 posted on 05/18/2014 9:35:39 PM PDT by Fungi
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only if you pay for it with your own money, if you are on welfare, eat all the junk food you want...
15 posted on 05/18/2014 9:36:29 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: PapaNew

“But as the line in the movie, Gladiator, goes, “But not yet.” “

another line from that movie is also appropriate for these people:

“the time for honoring yourself will soon be at an end”


16 posted on 05/18/2014 9:51:28 PM PDT by willywill
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“the time for honoring yourself will soon be at an end”

"...But not yet..."

:-)

17 posted on 05/18/2014 9:54:44 PM PDT by PapaNew
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Dr. Tim Lobstein at the World Obesity Federation said: “If obesity was an infectious disease, we would have seen billions of dollars being invested in bringing it under control, but because obesity is largely caused by the overconsumption of fatty and sugary foods, we have seen policy-makers unwilling to take on the corporate interests who promote these foods.” He said governments needed to take “collective action”.
That jumps far past merely “crazy” to openly evil. Never mind openly mendacious.
18 posted on 05/18/2014 10:02:16 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; Tolerance Sucks Rocks; Eric Blair 2084; Mears; metesky; Madame Dufarge; ...

Oh good grief...............

Nanny State Pinging needed here!


19 posted on 05/18/2014 10:06:00 PM PDT by Gabz (Democrats for Voldemort.)
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reducing the levels of salt, saturated fat and sugar in food

I'm in favor of education so that we can all voluntarily reduce our intake of these harmful substances. The government should not compel us to do so, however.

The issue is not whether sodium, saturated fat and various sugars are harmful; they are. The issue is the proper role of government, in this case none.

20 posted on 05/18/2014 10:09:38 PM PDT by Praxeologue
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