@2, I don't think they're telling anyone how to live. I think they're trying to end a subsidy for unhealthy foods (which should be a no-brainer).
While I agree with you that, should I decide to do so, I have the right to eat myself to death (channeling inner Ron Swanson here). However, as a tax payer, and assuming this article is factual, I'd prefer not to subsidize twinkies.
Always hilarious when people who purport to believe in some sort of "free market" cry foul at efforts to end public subsidies for corporations to artificially lower the prices of unsustainable products that make us unhealthy.
And then people criticize vegetarianism and healthy eating as somehow elitist because fresh produce is expensive for poor families relative to processed crap. Hmm, could there be a connection?
This is a good thing. This country has like 300 million people, a large number of whom are fat, stupid idiots who will eat modified plastic if you shape it like food. Bummer about their fat, stupid kids, but this is just natural selection doing its thing. If you're dumb enough to eat that shit and feed it to your kids, I'm willing to pay a little bit of tax money to help get you off the planet quicker. That way I won't have to hear as many assholes saying "hipster."
@DieSalty, they don't get off the planet quicker, they develop diabetes and hypertension and then you have to spend even more money giving them lifelong health care so they can manage their chronic disorders while continuing to breed.
And those who don't.
While I agree with you that, should I decide to do so, I have the right to eat myself to death (channeling inner Ron Swanson here). However, as a tax payer, and assuming this article is factual, I'd prefer not to subsidize twinkies.
And then people criticize vegetarianism and healthy eating as somehow elitist because fresh produce is expensive for poor families relative to processed crap. Hmm, could there be a connection?
There is nothing natural about that kind of selection.
They should also get ride of the subsidies for bio-fuel since all this "corn sugar" is a byproduct.