The Food Police

[Martin Hash]

It's not the pretentious, self-indulgent so-called "foodies" that pose a Food Police threat, it's the sanctimonious, self-righteous paternalists that want to tell you what to put inside of your own body, most clearly demonstrated by the Soft Drink trolls who want to tax soda pop, as if that does anything but create a new bureaucracy of paternaphiles. Obesity is a problem but the solution isn't to regulate eating, not to mention the anti-Liberty ramification, it's really an indoctrination problem, like standing in line & not hitting. If you want kids to stop getting fat, discourage sugar consumption when they're young, and as they get older, encourage monitoring of sugar intake by reading the nutritional labels on food. Yes, the insanely powerful sugar industry will fight back tooth-n-nail, but Big Tobacco was muzzled, and so shall they be.

[Speaker to Animals]

Obesity in part happened because the government got involved in the American diet. It was the USDA that invented that ridiculous food pyramid idea, with bread and sugars making up like a quarter of the diet.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Obesity in part happened because the government got involved in the American diet. It was the USDA that invented that ridiculous food pyramid idea, with bread and sugars making up like a quarter of the diet.

Brought to you by Big Sugar in Florida. Those fucks have their employees out protesting another water reclamation project, because it may result in the closing of a sugar mill.

[katarn]

Obesity in part happened because the government got involved in the American diet. It was the USDA that invented that ridiculous food pyramid idea, with bread and sugars making up like a quarter of the diet.

And blaming fats.

[jbird4049]

Obesity in part happened because the government got involved in the American diet. It was the USDA that invented that ridiculous food pyramid idea, with bread and sugars making up like a quarter of the diet.

Most added sugar in processed food comes from corn syrup. Big Ag grows far too much corn to sell, and depend on Federal subsidies to profitable convert the corn to syrup and sell it for almost zilch. The food industry is happy to take the near free sugar and put it into their processed foods. That adds calories to the food, which ends up as fat on us.

[Speaker to Animals]

Obesity in part happened because the government got involved in the American diet. It was the USDA that invented that ridiculous food pyramid idea, with bread and sugars making up like a quarter of the diet.

Most added sugar in processed food comes from corn syrup. Big Ag grows far too much corn to sell, and depend on Federal subsidies to profitable convert the corn to syrup and sell it for almost zilch. The food industry is happy to take the near free sugar and put it into their processed foods. That adds calories to the food, which ends up as fat on us.

The sugars are added because they act sort of like a drug that makes you crave the food. These companies spend a lot of money on figuring out how to hijack your brain and make you crave the food.

This has been going on since before any of us were born. It's not a new thing at all.

They also pushed grains on us big time in the early 20th century, which require a lot of sugar to make them taste good. By doing that they propped up the entire agricultural industry. Before roughly the 1940s, most Americans would eat breakfasts that consisted of eggs, meat (like bacon or ham), and maybe a piece of toast. Eggs and bacon is actually not bad for you. It's only until a few years ago that the nutritional scientists even admitted it.

[katarn]

Obesity in part happened because the government got involved in the American diet. It was the USDA that invented that ridiculous food pyramid idea, with bread and sugars making up like a quarter of the diet.

Most added sugar in processed food comes from corn syrup. Big Ag grows far too much corn to sell, and depend on Federal subsidies to profitable convert the corn to syrup and sell it for almost zilch. The food industry is happy to take the near free sugar and put it into their processed foods. That adds calories to the food, which ends up as fat on us.

Also, Big Ag grows too much corn because it makes corn syrup.

[jbird4049]

Obesity in part happened because the government got involved in the American diet. It was the USDA that invented that ridiculous food pyramid idea, with bread and sugars making up like a quarter of the diet.

Most added sugar in processed food comes from corn syrup. Big Ag grows far too much corn to sell, and depend on Federal subsidies to profitable convert the corn to syrup and sell it for almost zilch. The food industry is happy to take the near free sugar and put it into their processed foods. That adds calories to the food, which ends up as fat on us.

Also, Big Ag grows too much corn because it makes corn syrup.

It started when Big Ag could not sell all their mountains of corn and went looking for anyways to do so. Preferably while making money. The growers not only flooded the market with cheap, cheap syrup they also got their Congressional Minions to help create the ethanol program with their corn as its source.

[jbird4049]

Obesity in part happened because the government got involved in the American diet. It was the USDA that invented that ridiculous food pyramid idea, with bread and sugars making up like a quarter of the diet.

Most added sugar in processed food comes from corn syrup. Big Ag grows far too much corn to sell, and depend on Federal subsidies to profitable convert the corn to syrup and sell it for almost zilch. The food industry is happy to take the near free sugar and put it into their processed foods. That adds calories to the food, which ends up as fat on us.

The sugars are added because they act sort of like a drug that makes you crave the food. These companies spend a lot of money on figuring out how to hijack your brain and make you crave the food.

This has been going on since before any of us were born. It's not a new thing at all.

They also pushed grains on us big time in the early 20th century, which require a lot of sugar to make them taste good. By doing that they propped up the entire agricultural industry. Before roughly the 1940s, most Americans would eat breakfasts that consisted of eggs, meat (like bacon or ham), and maybe a piece of toast. Eggs and bacon is actually not bad for you. It's only until a few years ago that the nutritional scientists even admitted it.

It was a conscious decision by the Federal government to ensure the perpetual availability of low cost food. Prior to the 1960s food could take up to a third of ones income especially if you were poor. Not good food, any food.

So it was, and maybe is, a good idea. But our friends greed and corruption came along. It is Congress that determines what subsidies are, and it was the wealthier parts of the food industry that had the bigger bribes, and the most Congressional minions at their service. How many states have fruit and vegetable growers compared to all the other producers' states?