| | What bothers me most about the article is that it makes no mention of the grotesque violation of individual rights this law entails.
Ah, well. Thank god we have the State to keep us healthy.
Just look at what a good job they've done so far:
http://reason.com/archives/2012/05/29/drop-and-give-uncle-sam-20
According to the Harvard Gazette, “Our ancient ancestors’ diet was heavy on tubers, fruits, and vegetables, and lean meat from game animals. In fact, Lieberman said, if you look at what our ancient ancestors likely ate, you’d wind up with something like the dietary advice coming out of [the Harvard School for Public Health].” You certainly would not wind up with a recommendation that you carbo-load by eating, oh, six to 11 servings of bread, cereal, rice, and pasta every day. Yet that is precisely what the federal government’s food pyramid advised from 1992 to 2005. By remarkable coincidence, that time frame happens to overlap the period of the greatest growth in obesity rates. This policy of using government to persecute some businesses and favor others is one of the most pernicious features of crony capitalism. Where's the Occupy movement against this?
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