Posted on 08/23/2009 9:37:51 PM PDT by Bean Counter
Since the best minds of the country have concluded that health care is a basic human right, it must also be presumed that this right automatically includes the most fundamental component of all human health - food.
Leading nation's scientists have long been warning us that denying a person the nutrition from food impairs health in the most direct and injurious manner. Today the debate is over: the right to health and the right to food are pretty much one and the same - the inalienable human right to have your bodily functions regulated by the government for your own good.
It is obvious then that we must put an end to the unconscionable profits made off the hunger and stomach cramps of others by the well-connected and powerful agricultural-industrial conglomerate of selfish farmers, predatory food packers, heartless grocers, and mercenary restaurateurs.
That anyone is allowed to make billions of dollars by providing Americans with their basic health-giving nutritional needs is the shame of the nation and the cruel result of underregulated markets gone wild.
As eating is preventive health care at its most basic level, no health care reform would be complete without establishing a single-payer system of nutrition delivery called Foodicare, overseen by a super-czar level position of the Foodmaster General. An all-inclusive 2,500 page plan of this essential program is already available for immediate passage. No reading required; it is already self-evident that such an arrangement is even better than a similar plan most successfully enjoyed by North Koreans today.
*SNIP*
Coming soon, give it time.
Then, we going to need to have a “right” to toilet paper?
no. Muslims don’t use toilet paper, remember?
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