Obama's Food Police in Staggering Crackdown on Market to Kids

Human Events ^ | June 21, 2011 | Audrey Hudson, congressional correspondent

[Netizen]

I recently noticed that a local brand of kidney beans started adding HFCS to their product. So I switched to another brand. Why must they put it in things where sugar doesn’t normally occur?

I noticed that you have to watch the all beef angus hot dogs for trans fats. Some have 5 grams per hot dog. Some have it some don’t, which means they are adding it. WHY?

Fortunately, I don’t care for the all beef, so I don’t buy them. You have to really read the ingredients lists.

I also recently read that the producers of HFCS want to rename it corn sugar. I guess they think if they change the name people will fall for it.

[SIDENET]

Seems that good old (bad old?) palm and coconut oils are undergoing a renaissance. That these naturally solid fats aren’t nearly as bad for people as had been feared. And they certainly taste decent. Like the margarine commercial said, it’s not nice to fool Mother Nature.

I remember Taco Bell being trashed in the news over using coconut oil back in the early 90s.

[mountn man]

It might be important to note that sugar in sodas, pre HFCS was virtually all cane sugar. Today, sugar can be either cane or beet sugar, and be called sugar. What needs to be used for the authentic taste, is pure cane sugar alone.

[Netizen]

I don’t drink much pop anymore, but Root Beer is the best. yum

[Netizen]

Some bags of sugar don’t even tell you the source. I refuse to buy those.

[Vendome]

Hmmm....

When I was working there, 30 years ago, it was explained to me why we couldn’t do it.

Still makes sense to uphold their own IP but, hey, if you are getting a Mac with no pickles and that’s the way you like it....

About the only thing I order from them anymore is the $1 chicken sandwich and through away the bun. Can’t stand white bread.

[tet68]

You’re missing the point. It’s not about food,
it’s about CONTROL. Look at the effect this stupidity
is having on the food industry,suppliers and every one
else. More confusion in the market place, more rules,
more transfer of power to government.

Folks, the communists aren’t trying to collectivize peasant
farmers this time they are quietly doing it to us
while we sleep. WAKE UP!

[mountn man]

Don't know if it was made with coconut oil, but I REALLY LIKED Taco Bells Taco Light.

I'd put on 5# in a week if they brought that back.

[mountn man]

I liked their original McChicken sandwich years ago. Not all the spice to it.

[The Cajun]

What needs to be used for the authentic taste, is pure cane sugar alone.

Got about 200 acres of it to be harvested for you in the fall :^)

[steveab]

“It’s not just the food industry that will be impacted. Hundreds of television shows that depend on the advertising revenue, such as the Nickelodeon Channel, ESPN, and programs including “American Idol” will be affected, critics of the proposal say—at a cost of $5.8 trillion in marketing expenditures that support up to 20 million American jobs.”

If I owned a company such, as Micky D’s, I would say “OK, I’m not advertise any more. Just think if all the companies stuck together on this issue.

Hay Congress, Do you feel irrelevant yet?

[steveab]

Good question.
And this: Supreme Court decision in Bond v. U.S.: The Court unanimously held that not just states but individuals have standing to challenge federal laws as violations of state sovereignty under the 10th Amendment.

[rlmorel]

Exactly. Exactly. Exactly.

People talk about this subject as if there were no obesity or heart disease before HFCS. There was.

I see two major issues here:

1.) Constitutionally, the federal government HAS NO LEGAL RIGHT TO TELL US WHAT WE CAN AND CANNOT EAT.

2.) No amount of banning food is going to keep people from becoming obese if their food intake is unlimited and they are not forced to exercise. This is yet another example of a liberal nanny-state endeavor which will spend our tax dollars, put people out of work, put people in jail, increase the government payroll, and have ZERO effect on obesity.

For much of my life, I believed in a strong federal government. No more. It has gone mad and is out of control.

[rlmorel]

What I find disturbing is even many Freepers will say “Yes...we should ban this or that because (INSERT REASON HERE)”

It all goes back to WHERE DOES THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAVE THE POWER TO BAN ANYTHING NOT MENTIONED IN THE CONSTITUTION?

[steveab]

‘No amount of banning food is going to keep people from becoming obese if their food intake is unlimited and they are not forced to exercise.’

Think the “twinkie diet”.

[tet68]

The communists learned long ago that Americans will
fight to preserve their rights, at least the ones
they think about. This sort of thing just passes
by like leaves on a stream, and suddenly you have
a huge government structure in place that has no
basis in the constitution and is controlling what
where and when you and your children are being fed.

Frightening.

[punditwannabe]

I grew up in the sixties, as a latch key kid, mind you. My mom left a snack drawer for after school. It was full of ding dongs, twinkies, doritos, fritos, etc. Believe it or not, I ate that food but was not a “foodie” and never was fat! Even now I weigh 120 lbs, only five more than high school and I’m 56yrs old now. If we say food (or McDonalds or whatever) is responsible for making one fat, wouldn’t that be the same as saying guns kill people, not people shooting guns? People eat the food that makes them fat! Bad food choices, as you’ve said. Leave us alone already!!

[aruanan]

People talk about this subject as if there were no obesity or heart disease before HFCS. There was.

Ah, the myth of HFCS and obesity. I wonder how many people know that the average ratio of glucose to fructose of the HFCS in food is about the same as the ratio of glucose to fructose in sucrose. I wonder if they realize that the increase in use of HFCS tracks almost directly with the decrease in the amount daily energy expenditure required to carry out the tasks of everyday life. This ignorance of basic nutrition and post hoc ergo propter hoc "thinking" is what makes them prey to the manipulation of nutrition nazis on the one hand and food faddists on the other.

The only way that government can reduce obesity is to impose starvation either by restricting food intake or by diluting energy density or both. In the same way that making certain that there are no guns at all in the hands of the populace would destroy our society, the kind of policing and coercion necessary to reduce everyone to an "acceptable" level of body fat would require an imposition of control over the choices and activities of citizens that would make post-war East Berlin look like a libertarian paradise.

These people are the ones the Founding Fathers warned us about. The weak and relatively impotent forerunners of these folks, like King George, are the ones the Founding Fathers fought a revolution against and the ones many of our fathers waged a world war to defeat. It's time for us to step up and to secure our liberty once again. What happens in 2012 will determine what will have to happen in the years to follow.

[Rashputin]

What a wonderful example of hope and change. Just what the majority wanted.

[rlmorel]

Well said. I see very difficult times ahead. God help us all.