Read the entire post with the thought of actually trying to comprehend it before calling the poster names.
I don’t adhere to Mayor Bloomberg, and I said nothing about outlawing it, I merely made the obtuse observation that unhealthy and healthy food should compete on the same cost basis.
Bloomberg is an idiot. Those laws you infer merely cost the City of New York taxpayers money as they pay to defend something that will never hold up as constitutional.
I do however think passing the law requiring listing of the nutritional value of fast food was good and appropriate.
Or do you all think that in the name of pure libertarianism we should just allow people to sell poison to us and pass it off as food?
“I do however think passing the law requiring listing of the nutritional value of fast food was good and appropriate.”
So do I. It allows the consumer to make their own informed choices. My point was only that trying to control consumption of something by arbitrarily increasing costs doesn’t necessarily stop consumption, constitutionality and personal liberties aside. There are plenty of people who cannot afford a smoking habit, but they still smoke. In the end, it is a person’s personal responsibility to regulate what they eat.
Incidentally, even though I don’t eat fast food and don’t advocate for it, it’s not just that it’s fast food that is the problem. It’s the quantity that people eat. For example, why a ‘Big Mac’, when a single cheeseburger is cheaper and has less calories? Why a ‘big order’ of fries? Why a shake when you could drink water? The point is that it is personal choice that matters.
Now serious contender for top 3% of dumbest posts of FR. French fries, Hamburgers, etc. are NOT poison.
Healthy food and unhealthy food CAN’T compete on the same cost basis. Healthy food tends to be fresh, never frozen, and no processing. This means it expires faster, which means the stores have to throw out more, which means it costs the stores more, a cost they must pass on to consumers. You’ll never be able to charge the same for lettuce that must be thrown out at the end of the week as you do for meat patties that can stay in the freezer for 6 months. And that doesn’t even get into the size problem, fresh stuff tends to be a lot less compacted, causing it to take more space in transportation and storage.