[ScottiesMom]

I am really getting sick of my freedom of choice being taken away by the food police! I should be able to choose what I want to eat without artificial sweetener being snuck into all the drinks and drink mixes. All the food is becoming low fat or fat free, and nothing tastes good any more. I really resent this "do gooder food" being forced oon me and being lied to about the real reason people are obese. It's simply that most people aren't doing hard work any more or walking the way people used to do years ago. People can eat whatever they want if they burn calories. And why aren't the food police pushing for excercise instead of putting artificial sweeteners in everything? The answer is that the drug companies are making TONS of money with this false propaganda of low fat, sugar free, ( artificial sweetener) Have a anice day.

[Sam's Army]

Getting ready to smoke chicken and ribs bump

[NaughtiusMaximus]

Nietsche wrote that “Modern men are being prepared to live lives of slavery in the most exacting sense.”

And slaves don’t eat steak. They are fed approved amounts of Humble Pie, Chinese Dogfood, and of course, Victory Porridge.

[apocalypto]

I agree.

[mnehring]

It’s human nature for some to want control over others. Those who by nature, feel powerless, are more and more finding ways to fill the power need in our ever litigation controlled society. Some feel that they have superior knowledge about XX along with the need to have control over others (to fill their own inadequacies), and thus, you have a nanny state.

[Obie Wan]

Ha ha hey, the food police are bound and determined to make you and me healthy even if they have to take away every civil right we have to accomplish it.And your right about 90% of these low fat foods,THEY SUCK !!!

[acoulterfan]

Every day at lunch at work I would get a baked potato with sour cream with chives at Wendy’s. Well, they no longer have plain sour cream. They only have the low fat that tastes artificial and has 15 ingredients!

[basil]

If you eat at home, you can eat anything you like. I don’t buy anything that has ingredients I don’t want to consume in them.

[Nick5]

Um, prepare your own food from the scratch and beat the whole system? Cheaper and better and nobody to tell you what to do.

[Lil'freeper]

Oh the choices are out there - just be prepared to pay a premium (of time and money). Shop around at local farms and on the internet. Sometimes local grocery stores will stock a certain product if you ask. Gardens are a wonderful way to get good veggies. They also get you out in the sunshine which, along with the exercise, is a great mood booster.

[redhead]

"The answer is that the drug companies are making TONS of money with this false propaganda of low fat, sugar free, ( artificial sweetener) Have a anice day."

Which is NOTHING compared to what the food giants make by passing off a slurry of faked, imitation, processed, formed, flavored, adulterated, colored, artificially-"fortified" sludge on the public. Real food, containing REAL nutrition is expensive, and even that (especially in the case of meat) has been adulterated and modified. Don't get me started...

[freespirited]

We manage to find plenty of high-fat, high sugar stuff. Our problem is *not* eating it.

[GovernmentIsTheProblem]

So don’t buy it.

Next?

[The Great RJ]

The food police are just another manifestation liberalism. To the liberal mindset, the vast majority of the population are simply too ignorant to make choices about their own lives. The liberal elites must decide what we should eat, whether we should smoke, what our kids should be taught, what kind of car we should drive and generally how we should live our lives because we cannot be trusted to make the "right" choice for the good of society.

Hillary Clinton is a perfect example and her speeches positively drip with condescension and elitism. Liberal elitism is a greatest threat to our individual liberties since communism. The economists Friedrich von Hayek and Milton Friedman recognized that an assault on our economic choices is an assualt on personal freedom.

[eastforker]

You do have the freedom, it called learn to cook it the way you like it.

[abigailsmybaby]

Or like me...sitting on my ever-expanding butt in front of my computer. :(

[gcruse]

“All the food is becoming low fat or fat free’

One wonders what the average American butt-width would be WITHOUT reduced fat foods. As it is, shopping at a crowded Wal*Mart cries out for back-up beepers on some of these behemoths to protect the slow-of-foot behind them.

[Bommer]

[ApplegateRanch]

Don’t get me started!

Low-fat/no-fat chocolate “milk”...i.e. brown chalk water.

No more ‘Golden Gurnsey’/extra-rich milk.

Fat-free(?!?) half&half. How something that is supposed to be half cream (butterfat) and half milk, can be fat-free is a mystery of the universe.

Nearly all available yogurt is low/no-fat, AND pastuerized to kill the bacteria cultures!

“Buttermilk” hasn’t been buttermilk for decades.

Do NOT read the ingredients in packaged ice cream!

Decades ago, the USDA downgraded beef grades, so the top half of “Choice” became the bottom part of “Prime”, while eliminating the top half of the old “Prime” from commercial production. Top half of “Select” became the bottom half of “Choice, etc.

Chickens are both bred, and fed chemicals, to lighten the meat, so that “dark” meat is now about what “white” meat on a naturally home raised bird is like. Of course, that also makes the flavor much more bland; but, hey: we all have to make sacrifices!

Fruits & veggies bred for shippability & long term storage, rather than flavor.

[bigdcaldavis]

And the sad thing is, so many Americans elect to poison themselves with toxic foodstuff pushed by Big Food and the CCF, and then when they get sick from the toxic foodstuff, they look to the CSPI for a solution...but CSPI’s solution is to take away your liberties while poisoning you with Big Pharma’s toxic drugs. Problem, reaction, solution.