'Freedom' Is Just Another Word For 'Nothing Left To Eat'

center for consumer freedom ^ | 3.4.04 | center for consumer freedom

[freepatriot32]

When the World Health Organization (WHO) released its proposed "global strategy on diet, physical activity and health" calling for "fat taxes," the Bush administration noticed something conspicuously missing from the report -- any notion of personal responsibility. Thankfully, the former Director of Communications for WHO's European Office, Franklin Apfel, provides insight into this obvious omission. He recently told a conference in Dublin (as reported in The Irish Times):

[W]e are all influenced by 'hazard merchants' selling us a false view of things like tobacco, alcohol and high density foodstuffs -- we're given the impression that these things represent personal choice, autonomy and freedom.

And there you have it folks. Such is the mentality of the Euro-crats at the World Health Organization. According to Apfel, what folks eat and drink isn't a personal choice, nor is it a freedom. With these two misconceived notions out of the way, it's much easier for governments to police the diets of their citizens.

Food cops here at home are keen to this strategy. Margo Wootan of the Center for Science in the Public Interest has declared the need to "move beyond personal responsibility" when it comes to regulating our diets. And the father of the fat tax, Kelly Brownell, has noted that nutrition zealots should focus on children because "then you get away from these arguments about personal responsibility."

Despite their ongoing efforts, diet scolds have had little success convincing the American public that what we eat and drink is somebody else's decision and not our own. The global health police haven't fared too well either, considering a group of 77 developing nations have denounced the WHO report as unscientific and "not worthy of serious consideration." It seems that personal responsibility and freedom aren't easily swept under the rug -- or off the plate.

[freepatriot32]

[W]e are all influenced by 'hazard merchants' selling us a false view of things like tobacco, alcohol and high density foodstuffs -- we're given the impression that these things represent personal choice, autonomy and freedom.

Yeah were as if we are forced by federal law to only eat carrots peas tofu and bean curds that will give us the clearer impression of personal choice, autonomy and freedom.?

Do these morons ever think before the speak or did they all have lobotomys when they got promoted in there various liberals groups and are no longer capable of understanding even the most basic definitions of english language words ?

[jimt]

Bump for a shining example of socialist idiocy.

Nice post.

[rudypoot]

We need the Imperial government to save us from ourselves. BWahahahahahhah!!11!

[Diverdogz]

New policy: No food stamps for fat people.

[P.O.E.]

Ever notice at the market the stuff that people buy with food stamps (that is, if they don't just cash them on the black market for 50 cents on the dollar)

[freepatriot32]

ping

[Diverdogz]

I rarely see food stamps being used where I shop for groceries. But I see the junk that many very fat poor (and Wealthy) people eat. Unbelievable.

I've got this image and sound stuck in my head whenever I see big ol' fat mammas with grocery carts completely loaded down with chips, dip, Ice cream, hot dogs, and toilet paper - The image that pops in my head is a diesel semi rig. I'm imagining the fat momma driving a diesel eighteen-wheeler grocery cart (honnnnk honnnnnk :).

[litehaus]

Prefer the JJ version....freedom.....NOTHIN LEFT TO LOSE.....
Most prefer security for a 'price'............World leaders,that is used very loosely.......see the world that way mostly also...........

[Teacher317]

Yes, and all those planned economies that the Marxists have set forth have ALWAYS brought forth times of plenty!

(Even Ethiopia fed itself and part of the region - thanks in large part to Oklahoma State - until the Marxists took over in the 60's)

[Teacher317]

I gotta wonder, though... why is it the Communists are still so desperate to take over America when "the means of production" are increasingly not located here anymore?

[atomicpossum]

I did stand behind a woman a number of years ago that spent the whole time in line talking on her cell phone (in the days when they were still costly and not so ubiquitous)-- and then paid for everything with food stamps. Irritating isn't the word.

[KarlInOhio]

What type of nasty, foul taste treat would someone at the EU Bureau of Food develop? I imagine that it would be something like a Brussel Sprout.

[freepatriot32]

Q:What type of nasty, foul taste treat would someone at the EU Bureau of Food develop?

A:

[kevkrom]

No food stamps for fat people

While personal choices are a big part of weight gain, cheap foods also tend to be the worst to eat for people trying to lose or maintain weight -- they are loaded with fats and sugars. Whether you beleive in balanced diet, low-fat, or low-carb, everyone agrees that a high carb, high fat diet is a really bad idea.

[P.O.E.]

The government supplants the natural drive to work or compete to get food with a drive to petition the government for food.

The government then tries to drag people up the Maslow pyramid (e.g., "self-esteem" and "belonging" in schools), of course stopping just before the top (spirituality).

[Go Gordon]

While personal choices are a big part of weight gain, cheap foods also tend to be the worst to eat for people trying to lose or maintain weight -- they are loaded with fats and sugars. Why don't poor people grow their own vegetables and fruit? Initial seed costs are cheap. Thereafter, the seeds can come from the year one crop.