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November 22, 2008 at 10:44:58
The Fanatical Food Fascists Are At It Again by Sandy Sand Page 1 of 2 page(s) |
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You want to control what people eat and stop so many from becoming the unsightly fatties of the world? Start teaching home-ec classes in kindergarten for both boys and girls and hang pictures of Twiggy on all the walls, but don’t ban fast food ads. Fast food is the staple of a huge number of Americans’ diets. If it weren’t, all the fast food places would have gone in the garbage disposal long ago. Speeding up to the drive-thru is a way of life for many parents, both of whom might be holding down more than one job just to keep body and soul together. If the fanatical we-know-what’s-good-for-you-but-you-don’t fast food fascists get their way fast food ads will be banned from television.
Isn’t that more or less the bottom line?
It’s not the fast food ads that are driving them through the drive-thru that’s making them fat, it’s parents whose means to the end of feeding them is fast food. It‘s the fault of those same parents who allow their children to sit on their asses watching Thee TV all day instead of going outside to play, and who drive them up to fast food take-out windows.
First, I always want to know who paid for this or any study.
In this case, was it the lean meat chicken people? Vegans? The leaner other white meat people? Self-loathing fatties? Or a bunch of freakin’ busy body control freaks, who have nothing better to do with their time than tell us how we should eat?
Second, I was never a fast food freak, and rarely zipped through the drive-thru on my way home from work so I could throw any kind of food at my kids.
Either I made dinner before leaving the house or when I got home, or called them from my desk and told them how to start preparing dinner.
It wasn’t that hard to do, nor did it make me a saint for doing it. It was just the way it was, and I didn’t feel particularly burdened by the task of providing them with a reasonably wholesome meal at the end of the day.
Banning advertising by legal, legitimate enterprises is not the way to get people to become svelte, or to live a lifetime of healthful eating.
Education from an early age is part of the answer. Getting McDonald’s, Carl’s Jr, Taco Bell and the hundreds of other fast food chains to voluntarily co-operate and reduce the calories in their meals is another way.
Of course, that would also make their food more expensive, because they’d be forced to stop using fillers and to use higher grade, lower fat content meat in their burgers, or switch to turkey burgers, which are totally disgusting and unpalatable unless they’re drowned in an ocean of condiments.
For all practical purposes, during our current economic crisis this is not the time to be talking about banning advertising for multi-million-billion dollar businesses that employ hundreds of thousands of unskilled workers.
Being out of a job would be far more unhealthful for them and the economy in general than eating the food at their work places.
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Might I suggest
you read Naomi Klein's book "No Logos"? Particularly that parts the involve McD's And please note that recent reports out of Austria and Germany have indicated that modified corns that give us high fructose have been implicated seriously in childhood obesity and Type II diabetes. I am not a food cop. I think informed choice is the way to go. But, apparently, unlike you, I have no problem standing up to corporations that jerk us around and give us bad products. by Jack Harrington (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 676 comments [70 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Saturday, Nov 22, 2008 at 1:35:15 PM  (0+)
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Reply: Well Said
I thought I was reading Ann Coulter by sliphoch (0 articles, 1 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 110 comments [2 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Saturday, Nov 22, 2008 at 3:53:18 PM (0+)
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We got rid of cigarett ads didn't we?
Fast food unfortunately is still junk food and as such is poison that will end your life prematurely. It doesn't have to be that way, but more sugar, especially cheaper fructose corn syrup, salt, and saturated fat, (but not preservatives), as well as overcooking and scorched carbohydrates, vegtables and meat seems to taste better and therefore will sell more. Perhaps more warnings and a ban on sales to minors would be appropriate, but advertising poison on the public airwaves? No. We need better standards for food that is healthy. by Richard Lee (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 178 comments [40 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Saturday, Nov 22, 2008 at 7:23:48 PM (0+)
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40 years I ate Junk food
And then I was diagnosed with Colon Cancer. I spent 4 miserable years trying to get my health back. I figured out it was all the junk food I ate and when I went back to nature, and stopped eating anything that was processed. It is all the additives that you get in the processed food that is causing all the obesity and cancer in this country. This is the problem, the people are not informed about all those additives in our food supply and they think the food is alright to eat. One of the main problems is there are not enough minerals in the food and the nutrient level is nill as the plant source don't get the minerals they need so they can nourish our bodies as we need. People need to get the information about food and whats good for our system. I just gave up on trying to get good food from any where except what nature provides, that way I know it is good to eat and now I am healthier then I have been for years. What we really need to do is stop all the advertising on TV about prescription Drugs, that you can only get from a doctors written prescription. The horrible side effects from those drugs are causing over 100,000 deaths a year in the USA alone. Most drugs are uneffective in curing any disease anyway. It all starts by eating the right food and excercising, to get your health back. The people need to be educated in nutrition. by Mel Smith (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 60 comments [21 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Saturday, Nov 22, 2008 at 10:01:04 PM (0+)
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No guarantee
" And then I was diagnosed with Colon Cancer. I spent 4 miserable years trying to get my health back. I figured out it was all the junk food I ate" One of my close friends has colo-rectal cancer phase IV, and she is a vegan. She has been depriving herself of lots of goodies because she was always so concerned with eating right, no meat, no animal products, no cheese, very little fat, no smoking, no drinking, meditation, etc. She is angry now because she has the feeling of having been ripped off: many nutritionists advertise this type of diet as a guarantee against heart disease and cancer. Well, it's not. by francine (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 385 comments) on Sunday, Nov 23, 2008 at 10:53:28 AM (0+)
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advertising
Its far more important to ban advertising for prescription and over-the-counter drugs and dangerous vaccines. Also any business that engages in false advertising should be shut down by the government for fraud. by Ty (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 888 comments [2 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Tuesday, Nov 25, 2008 at 7:42:45 PM (0+)
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Food fascist
A real food fascist would make it illegal to buy food not just ban the advertising of it. Banning advertising just reduces demand for a product causing the reduction of business profit. Banning the sale and possession of a product is what causes a black market to exist which also drives prices up. Thats what happened during the "Prohibition Era" when alcohol was banned. Thats also whats happened as a result of banning the possession and sale of certain drugs like marijuana and other deadlier drugs. by Ty (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 888 comments [2 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Tuesday, Nov 25, 2008 at 7:57:59 PM (0+)
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It is simple sandy sand.
If we didn't make that fast food trash, we wouldn't need to have this conversation. by politivegan (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 3 diaries, 13 comments) on Friday, Nov 28, 2008 at 12:56:27 PM (0+)
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