Posted on 05/17/2003 11:29:39 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
The government - ever eager to control every aspect of your life - has now launched a campaign to determine what and how much you eat.
Having taken over much of the health system via Medicare, the government is now concerned about the cost of illnesses resulting from obesity, the same way it worried about the cost of illnesses associated with smoking. As such, the government has embarked on an effort to control individuals' personal lifestyle choices, as well as accusing the fast-food industry of causing obesity.
The lessons of Prohibition, the outlawing of alcoholic beverages in the 1920s, have not been learned and the result is the virtual criminalization of the tobacco industry and now, it would seem, the fast-food industry.
In her book, "Dependent on D.C.: The Rise of Federal Control Over the Lives of Ordinary Americans," author Charlotte A. Twight says, "Few things are more personal than health care, nor more alien to the legitimate functions of limited government. Yet few things are higher on the U.S. government's agenda at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Step by step, the federal government is usurping power to substitute its medical judgments and therapeutic choices for those of individual patients and their physicians." Most Americans are unaware that the newly proclaimed US policy comes right out of the United Nations.
The UN's World Health Organization and its Food and Agricultural Organization issued a draft report making the case that various restrictions must be imposed on everything from soda to snack foods in order to save the world from fat people. The UN report manages to ignore the estimated 815 million undernourished people in the world.
It is a plan to create an Orwellian world in which everyone is compelled to do what Big Brother tells him or her to do. The US campaign, though couched in terms of obesity's financial costs, is a subterfuge for even greater control over our personal lives.
Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy G. Thompson was on television recently, pointing a finger at the fast-food industry and urging it to "do what is right for Americans."
What is right is the right of every American to determine what and how much they eat, and to be responsible for whatever consequences they encounter. This is not a public issue. It is a private one. It is one in which the government should have no role nor say.
The absurdity of the new war on fat people is the assertion, soon to be a nationwide environmental campaign, that housing developments actually cause Americans to exercise less, thus contributing to obesity, diabetes and other disorders.
This is pure junk science that defies common sense, but watch as Americans are told that suburban life is the new enemy that is killing them.
It is a hop, skip and a jump from telling Americans they are too fat to issuing regulations to ensure they do not exceed daily food intake rules set by the government. It's an extension of the same government control that now includes smoking restrictions.
Getting fat or staying slim is a personal lifestyle decision. It is not the government's right, nor role, to determine, and the new campaign, initiated by the UN, can lead to still further loss of freedom in America.
Are you kidding me? Steak is my middle name ;)
Cheaper at Walgreens, do you have one near you?
Freepers said Government was Fat first.
Once again, for those in the back of the class... If you have that many problems, or allergies that are that serious, you simply cannot think that anything is "unrelated" and you have absolutely no business eating anything for which you haven't personally verified the contents of each and every ingredient or preferably made for yourself. Processed food is just not meant for you.
The same thing happened to me and I don't have any allergies. Do you even know what Hydrogenated oil is if you weren't told? Until that article about the Oreo cookies was printed, I'll bet, unless you were a chemist or doctor, you never heard of it.
By the name and an application of reasoning, I could deduce that "hydrogenated oil" was most likely oil in which hydrogen gas had somehow been injected or blended for some reason. However, that is beside the point. Like I said before - if you are so afraid that something may harm you in processed food, go do the research and find out what the ingredients are. If you are too stupid or lazy to go do all the required research to determine what each and every ingredient consists of in processed food before you eat it, then it just isn't for you. Make your own food and quit your damn whining. But let the rest of us eat what we want!
Col Sanders
and between their ears!
Now you got my head spinning....You mean water goes in the toilet?
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