Posted on 02/28/2007 8:25:04 AM PST by Reagan Fellow
Prince Charles is publicly advocating a ban on Big Macs. While touring a diabetes center, he asked a local official, “Have you got anywhere with McDonald’s, have you tried getting it banned? That’s the key.”
It’s no secret that Big Macs and fries aren’t good for you (incidentally, neither are fish ‘n’ chips, chap).
But what’s even worse is government regulation of what you put on your plate. Such bans replace individual judgment with politically favored notions of nutrition. Had the government been setting our tables in the 1980s, we would have been eating a lot of trans fats, which nutrition advocates claimed were the healthy alternative to butter.
Certainly, educating the public about nutrition is laudable, and numerous private organizations, such as the American Dietetic Association and the American Diabetes Association, not to mention hundreds of thousands of doctors, undertake that task every day.
So it comes down to this: Should we let government officials decide what we eat? Or is that a personal decision that free individuals should make for themselves?
In this case, Prince Charles’ beef with McDonald’s is best left in Britain.
Well, I personally don't believe big macs contain beef.
But keep the government out of it.
While I hate this kind of thing, I have to say, if America ever adopts a health system like NHS, I'll be calling for the banning of McDonalds and all other fast food places - as well as sports of all kinds, children's parks, speed limits above 10 miles per hour, etc.
Anything that jeopardizes health should be eliminated if I have to pay for someone else when they become obese or get hurt via perfectly avoidable means.
If the government really wants to protect us, let's really do it man! Let's get them in a state of such control that we can't do a push-up without a license.
Charles can say and do what he pleases in Britain, but leave good old American businesses alone. The war was over a VERY long time ago...
Prince Charles is a socialist idiot that is the direct result of generations of Royal inbreeding. I certainly am not going to accept un-offered advice from a man who is Muzzie-friendly, who can't keep his Business in his own pants, and who couldn't manage a monogomous marraige with a beautiful, intelligant woman who for some reason was driven into the arms of another.
Ban food. Problem solved.
PETA should be all over McDonald's with the billions of burgers they have sold over the years. Why, that's probably 4 or 5 cows slaughtered right there.
"It’s no secret that Big Macs and fries aren’t good for you..."
Define "good for you".
For some reason when I eat Bic Macs and fries, I'm no longer hungry, I don't die and I manage to stand 6 feet and weigh 165. I's it the meat that's bad for me? The bread? The cheese? The lettuce? Thousand Island dressing? God knows those things aren't available anywhere but on a freakin' McDonald's hamburger!
This has gotten beyond retarded.
> So it comes down to this: Should we let government
> officials decide what we eat?
Absolutely not.
Oh, wait, that was a rhetorical question, wasn't it?
OTOH, I see nothing wrong with regulations that require prominent display of the nutritional information of prepared food (even though, arguably, McDonalds and most other "fast food" products don't really qualify as food, not being fit for human consumption).
If someone is intent on poisoning themselves slowly with that rot, they at least shouldn't have the excuse of ignorance.
You are correct. Did you know that 100% of people who eat food will DIE!?! That after a certain point, the bodies of every child who eats food will rot and decay away into the soil? That 100% of the people who eat food can be expected to be inflicted at some point in their lives with the common cold or flu? This has got to be stopped, preferably by a flanx of lawyers who are REALLY CONCERNED about our health, provided they get at least 55% of any and all settlements.
Ban food. Problem solved.
The smokers were the proverbial canary in the coal mine, but nobody listened. They all jumped on the bandwagon and cheered it on saying it doesn't concern me or something along the lines: "if I have to pay for increased health costs" blah, blah, blah.
Now emboldened; government is going after other things.
You people were warned.
"(even though, arguably, McDonalds and most other "fast food" products don't really qualify as food, not being fit for human consumption)"
Aren't you the snotty elitist.
Al Capone did exactly what PETA and the Center for Science in the Public Interest does, and called it "protection money ."
Continued ignorance by not reading the nutritional information on the label that you contend would end their ignorance. Try again.
>> "(even though, arguably, McDonalds and most other "fast
>> food" products don't really qualify as food, not being
>> fit for human consumption)"
>
> Aren't you the snotty elitist.
Not at all. I just know enough about nutrition to know that unless you are trapped on a desert island with a choice between eating Big Macs and eating sand, it is barely conceivable that there isn't a better choice for something to eat.
That's setting aside the fact that McDonalds maliciously LIES about the value of their so-called food, claiming that nutritionists consider it to be part of a healthy diet when well over 90% of nutritionists would either turn green with nausea or purple with rage at the very thought of putting that fat laden, nutrition free glop into a human body.
It isn't food if it rapidly disintegrates upon contact with air.
:)
> Continued ignorance by not reading the nutritional
> information on the label that you contend would end their
> ignorance. Try again.
At least at that point it would be willful ignorance, and one could consider the lamentable but inevitable result to be the workings of natural selection rather than Madison Avenue deceit.
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