Posted on 11/09/2013 1:23:58 PM PST by Innovative
Soon to be regulated, salt, sugar, eaggs, hotdogs, sausage, bacon, coffee, tea, ............
The government was started to serve and work for the people. When did it change to the government sets rules and compels us to obey or face the wrath of the bureaucrats? It turns the whole thing upside down.
It changed when the servants forgot humility and popular accountability.
Some of my favorite soups are terrible now. I used to love Campbell's Chicken & Stars. I ate some recently and it was horrible.
Salt does up the flavor.
And the dirty secret is, unless you have salt-sensitive hypertension (only a portion of the population does), a low salt diet doesn't do jack squat.
Don't get me started on the "low fat" oils in foods.
Breakfast cereals get soggy in seconds, and taco shells droop instantly after you put meat in them.
How I long for a 1986 style nacho bellgrande.
Crisp chips, real sour cream, and refried beans made with lard.
Yum!
Let us regulate breathing air with CO2 in it.
I was never a salt person; I was taught that most food had plenty of sodium and therefore I didn't need salt. For my 2nd part-time job, I buy the canned stuff (Wolf's Chili, Chef Boyardee, etc) because it's cheap food for lunch, just toss it in a bowl and heat it up, and I've been using salt like crazy.
Anywho, this will have unintended consequences, just like the subsidies that Big Sugar gets, so sugar is expensive now and manufacturers use High-fructose corn syrup as a substitute. Now HFCS is bad for people.
Well I think it is great! The FIRST move was to ban smoking in government facilities.....wow it work, the gubmint thought that was pretty cool, so let’s see what they do if we tell privately owned businesses they can’t allow smoking.......voila, magic again......the peeps thought that was wonderful. They were so obsessed with the joke of second hand smoke now they are taking our food. GOOD.
My brother-in-law, ten mile runner per day, vegan vitamin freak, never touched fat or a cigarette is dying of prostate cancer to the bone. They are building a new home. While we were visiting, one of the subs was smoking in the garage.......my BIL went nuts screaming at the sub about second hand smoke and how dare he foul the air in their future home..............duh!
If they can ban trans fats how come they don’t ban tobacco and alcohol ? Oh yes the governments get taxes from them.
Well, you all remember the last time there was Prohibition...Get ready for beef tallow speakeasies.
With all their nanny pickin’ one asks what are they trying to do? Are they trying to get everyone to live to 100? What’s the good that will do if you create a larger population of people that does nothing but drool and poop their pants?
Didn’t we get trans fats because the government said saturated fats were bad for us?
Now apparently saturated fats are OK.
Yep - new screening under Obama-Could Care-Less: Do you smoke? Do you use salt or sugar? Did you bring your weapons and ammo to turn in?
Yeah, because fatback and Bacon grease will be the VSOPR of animal fats...
Nanny State PING!
They’ll take the jar of bacon grease in my refrigerator from my cold, dead hands . . .
Thanks for the ping!
With all their nanny pickin’ one asks what are they trying to do? Are they trying to get everyone to live to 100? What’s the good that will do if you create a larger population of people that does nothing but drool and poop their pants?
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That’s a good question to ask the central planners. Unintended consequences are a bitch.
“Be careful what you wish for...you just might get it.”
-—Chinese proverb
Everyone quits smoking and eats healthy. Now people are living longer and collecting SS benefits and Medicare for more years. It’s costing taxpayers money.
Should we have a social engineering experiment to encourage people to be unhealthy and die earlier and save their collective society tax money?
On no, the start was the ban on smoking cigarettes in privately owned businesses. All the smoke haters loved it, not caring that it was more about a dangerous precedent set by the government than about cigarettes.
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