Who ever says the government can't do anything, are the people who weren't educated. The government can tax certain products. So that means they can tax the hell out of Unhealthy food.
Just for fun I think I'm gonna make Michele mad and become obese. Not like she can make me become healthy
No. All food should be treated equally under the law. If the government decides that you can't have a cake with chocolate syrup and sugar-coated cherries on top, and they can't ban it, but they don't want anyone to have it, they'll tax it. It's basically using their power to indirectly ban it. And the healthy foods shouldn't be subsidized. The government needs to quit worrying about what people eat and get out of the market in general. I should have the right to choose to eat whatever in the whole wide world. The mayor of New York had no right to ban large soda. If people don't want a big coke with their hamburgers, then they should have the right to do that. I understand that they want to help. Making America more healthy is an admiral pursuit. But taxing and subsidizing is not the answer. Education about healthy and unhealthy foods would be better and less expensive. I've noticed something as well. At schools in my area,at least, and I can only talk for those schools, recess stops at 6th grade. And you get a thing called courtyard. You go out there after lunch, it's a concrete open-air area with some benches and other things, and you talk to your friends. That's it. No running, playing, etc.. In fact, a few of my buddies invented walk-tag, because we couldn't run. I speed-walked in front of a teacher, and I got put on the wall for 5 minutes. Courtyard is 8 minutes or so long, so that's a lot more than it sounds. Kids don't seem to get much exercise. I think we need to educate in science class about healthy eating habits, an we need more time for kids to excercise (that word doesn't want to be spelled right. Can someone spell that right in a post?). Aside from the excersise, studies show that if kids get a designated time of the school day where they can blow of steam, standardized test scores are higher. Also, exercise can improve attention spans.
When u prove its not possible it must therefore leave only the impossible... - Excerpt from the Memoirs of Dr Watson
Healthy food isn't actually healthy in the way you think of it. Almost all are a marketing scam made so big companies can get richer. Typical scams you'll find: Reduction in fat % These food are true to their sense of being 30% less fat. But here's the kicker, they are also 30% less of everything else. What they have done removed 30% of the food item. Vitamins, now it is good to be taking vitamins, but only if you're lacking in a particular vitamin, you body can only take so much in before it effectively becomes some expensive poo. Adding water to products are another form of scam, basically water is added to beef up the food and make it seen to have a low fat than other similar food items that are the same weight as it. Diet cola and other diet forms are actually even more unhealthy as the original, due to using sugars to replace fats, or adding a artificial food colouring / flavours to maintain the same flavour. Some cases if you compare the the normal food deemed "unhealthy" and you compare them with the "healthy" food you can see the foods are completely the opposite.
Op the government doesn't need to waste their time on something so petty and simplistic as that. Everyone needs to take care of themselves and not need to be told what to do. If the government raises taxes on " junk food " then they 1) waste time that they could be using to fix other crap they've gotten the country into 2) how would they even be able to delineate between " healthy food " and "junk food?" 3) they would be pissing everyone off and encouraging a black market for junk food which would cost the economy.
@Vagabondian I'm with you. And it's a liberty thing. No one should be able to take away my right to make my own economic choices, whether it's healthy or bacon-wrapped pizza with Big Macs on top.
yeah the big bad gov should keep their hands out of our food cause theyve got no right to regulating for peeps health or safety (grin) how dare they tell us how much mercury or lead may be used in foods (giggle)