Calories on Menus

[barfo]

They should stop putting the calories on canned food, and the ingredients too. That's just government control.

And labeling drugs. If people wanted to know what was in the pills they were taking, they'd force the market to tell them.

After all, ignorance is bliss, and there is certainly a better chance of getting a placebo effect if you take "magic pills".

barfo

 

[MARIS61]

The only ill effects on society for obesity are to the individual. The ill effects for illegal drug use are borne by everyone, from increased crime to the damage impaired individuals do to others.

Obesity causes low self-esteem, one of the main gateways to criminal behavior. I've toured the Federal Prison at Sheridan. Lotta tubbies in there.

Fat people are less productive workers, use more sick leave, make more errors, and sweat like pigs when you share a plane seat (or 2) with them. God help you if he farts.

Fat people are an increased strain on our nation's infrastructure! Their extra body weight, sometimes as much as 3 normal people, is the main reason our bridges are cracking and our roads crumbling.

Fat people aren't green! The world's resources would last eons longer if there weren't so many blimpos who need shirts the size of tents, who need to replace the shocks in their cars every 3 months, who eat more for lunch than the average Somali village eats in a month.

Now, the fat person is a burden to society because they create excess health care costs. Before, that burden was borne specifically by the private insurance companies that chose to take them...

...who then immediately passed the entire cost on to ALL their customers.

Don't pretend it works any other way.

 

[MARIS61]

And labeling drugs. If people wanted to know what was in the pills they were taking, they'd force the market to tell them.

After all, ignorance is bliss, and there is certainly a better chance of getting a placebo effect if you take "magic pills".

barfo

Got any snake oil?

 

[MARIS61]

If you stop treating adults like children, then they'll perhaps behave like adults.

Some ARE acting like adults, that's the problem.

Children are hungry for knowledge, especially if the knowledge could help them be healthy and live a long, active life.

Some adults fear knowledge, as there is a certain amount of personal responsibility that comes with it. Denial suits a lazy coward far better.

 

[MARIS61]

I think the government should also force car manufacturers to post information about the rubber in their tires--what country it came from, how many acres of forest had to be cleared to produce it, how many indigenous peoples were removed from their homelands because of it, how much wildlife was destroyed . . .

How else can I make an "informed" decision when I purchase my car?

Best idea you ever posted.

All the cheap brands, the "house" brands like Les Schwab's tires, come from China who is the world's largest polluter and operates slave labor camps. Good place to start.

 

[MARIS61]

http://pagingdrgupta.blogs.cnn.com/2010/03/30/group-tells-ronald-mcdonald-to-take-a-hike/?hpt=T2

I'm old enough to have formed the opinion that McDonalds was the origin of everything that's lame, disappointing, and woeful about modern America.

We were really something before that shit started, but look at us now.

 

[MARIS61]

Sure it's bad, but it's not the business of the government to make that judgment.

What if someone is cutting themselves, or banging their head against the wall?
Should the government step in and do something?

What if the government knows children are dying from lead poisoning in paint? Do nothing?

If info scares you that much, just think of it as one of my posts.

Nobody is forcing you to read it.