[Labyrinthos]

First and foremost, I am against the Bloomberg food Nazis and their desire to mico-manage our lives. People have the right to make their own stupid choices and suffer the consequences as long as their stupid decisions don't have a material effect upon other people. With that said, way too many Americans are fat, lazy, and stupid, and quick to blame their fatness on their genes and slow metabolism. Follow a fat person around for a few hours and the reason they are fat should become obvious — and it has nothing to do with genetics unless there is a yet to be discovered gene than causes fat people to eat a double whopper with bacon and cheese for lunch every day or inhale a a large bag of chips and a biggie soda as they waddle through the grocery store shopping for crap food.

Government's role should not be coercive and punitive, but rather, instructive. Rather than teaching fifth graders how to put a condom on a banana and the virtues of gay sex, the government run school system should be teaching kids about nutrition, including how to read a food label, the importance of serving size, and the health implications of obesity. Schools should also resurrect the home economics curriculum, which seems to have disappeared over the last few years thanks to the leftist complaints that “home ec” is sexist. Both girls and boys should be required to take the class and the emphasis should be on healthy food choices and basic cooking skills. Indeed, I know fat people who eat at McWendyKing every evening because they don't know how to cook a simple meal.

[Tammy8]

the government run school system should be teaching kids about nutrition, including how to read a food label, the importance of serving size, and the health implications of obesity.

Have you seen the typical school breakfast or lunch? Loaded with starch/carbs/fats. Hot dogs, chicken nuggets, pizza, fries, mac & cheese...

I don't think the government should be involved at all, every problem they try to fix ends up worse.

[DallasBiff]

First and foremost, I am against the Bloomberg food Nazis and their desire to mico-manage our lives. People have the right to make their own stupid choices and suffer the consequences as long as their stupid decisions don't have a material effect upon other people. With that said, way too many Americans are fat, lazy, and stupid, and quick to blame their fatness on their genes and slow metabolism. Follow a fat person around for a few hours and the reason they are fat should become obvious — and it has nothing to do with genetics unless there is a yet to be discovered gene than causes fat people to eat a double whopper with bacon and cheese for lunch every day or inhale a a large bag of chips and a biggie soda as they waddle through the grocery store shopping for crap food.

Government's role should not be coercive and punitive, but rather, instructive

Welcome Mayor Bloomberg(or his spokesperson). I guess I should click my heels and say "heil".

[holden]

These bans make oh-so much sense in a time when the gay mafia expends so much time, money and political capital coercing its viewpoint that it's normal and good to jam one's private parts into another's sewer system. (/s)

It's nothing more subtle than naked (!) political advantage skewing our moral worldview and common sense.

HF