Nah. It is better for people to be obese and have poor nutrition than
ANY effort to change the status quo! Right on! Oink,Oink!
"dank" <dank@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> There's an idea being promoted by nutritionists and others to
> engineer a
> healthier society by taxing unhealthy food ingredients like fat,
> sugar,
> and salt to price them out of the reach of poor people who consume
> too
> much of them and suffer poor health as a result. The fat tax
> revenues
> would be used to subsidize healthy foods, with the intent being to
> "encourage" uneducated peasants to make the correct food choices by
> pricing junk food out of their reach. The end result of this idea
> will
> be to coerce most of a nation's population to consume nutritionally-
> balanced human nutrition pellets, with perhaps an extra ration of
> canned
> nutrition glop for holidays.
>
> Though fatty, sugary foods are bad for everyone, there is no effort
> to
> actually OUTLAW these ingredients because that would deprive the
> elite
> of their capuccinos with extra whipped cream, fancy im****ted
> cheeses,
> even pizza and Cheetos when they're feeling ghetto. There is no
> problem
> with nutritionists and social engineers stuffing their faces with
> these
> particular foods, all they are asking is that these things be made
> prohibitively expensive for everyone making less money than
> themselves.
>
> Sweden has a law that sets traffic fines based on the driver's
> income.
> It was seen as unfair to set a fine for speeding that the wealthy
> could afford to pay repeatedly, so it was decided that the fine
> should
> be a percentage of one's annual income. A poor person would pay
> $100
> for speeding while a rich person would pay $10,000 because he earns
> so
> much more. To be fair, a fat tax should also be levied according to
> income. If the intent is to discourage unhealthy dietary choices by
> making those choices too expensive to regularly consume, then
> nutritionists, social engineers, and government officials who
> promote
> this idea should be willing to apply it to themselves and pay a
> pro****tionately higher tax to be fair, so that fatty junk food is
> just
> as unaffordable for the elite as it is for the proles.
>
>
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> "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than
> others."
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