Food-Nazi wants to tax vegetable fat...

[Mister Superstar]

This current issue of Scientific American is devoted to the problems
of world hunger and obesity. The articles were very informative,
with a detailed analysis of why the modern human diet makes us fat,
and also why so many people suffer from starvation as well as
malnutrition despite being overweight.

Anyway, one article discussed the crackpot idea that many nutritional
experts have, of taxing fatty food in an attempt to discourage the
ignorant and impoverished proles from stuffing their faces with
macaroni and cheese, pizza, and potato chips. Naturally, the tax
revenues would be used to pay nutritional researchers to do more
research, and also to subsidize healthy foods like carrot juice and
tofu chips that are approved for proletariat consumption.

One scientist was working with authoritarian governments like China
and Mexico to implement an experimental fat tax. I'm not quite sure
whether to describe her as a Food Nazi or a Food Marxist; the social
engineering angle has Marxist overtones, but her methodology creates
a privileged wealthy elite who can afford to stuff their faces with
heavily-taxed macaroni and cheese and pizza. I'm sure she will be
fair and set the tax at a reasonable level of affordability for
nutritional researchers who earn $250,000 or more per year.

[Frank Arthur]

Nah! It's better to see an obese America!
Fatter is better!

Post by Mister Superstar
This current issue of Scientific American is devoted to the problems
of world hunger and obesity. The articles were very informative,
with a detailed analysis of why the modern human diet makes us fat,
and also why so many people suffer from starvation as well as
malnutrition despite being overweight.
Anyway, one article discussed the crackpot idea that many
nutritional
experts have, of taxing fatty food in an attempt to discourage the
ignorant and impoverished proles from stuffing their faces with
macaroni and cheese, pizza, and potato chips. Naturally, the tax
revenues would be used to pay nutritional researchers to do more
research, and also to subsidize healthy foods like carrot juice and
tofu chips that are approved for proletariat consumption.
One scientist was working with authoritarian governments like China
and Mexico to implement an experimental fat tax. I'm not quite sure
whether to describe her as a Food Nazi or a Food Marxist; the social
engineering angle has Marxist overtones, but her methodology creates
a privileged wealthy elite who can afford to stuff their faces with
heavily-taxed macaroni and cheese and pizza. I'm sure she will be
fair and set the tax at a reasonable level of affordability for
nutritional researchers who earn $250,000 or more per year.

[Mister Superstar]

Frank Arthur wrote...

Post by Frank Arthur
Nah! It's better to see an obese America!
Fatter is better!

But America stands for personal freedom. Forced skinniness isn't
American, it's communist.

I suppose a similar situation can be found in North Korea. Food
isn't actually illegal, it is simply priced beyond the reach of
most DPRK citizens, and only the Dear Leader and the privileged
elite Inner Party members who lick his ass are able to afford
such an unhealthy luxury like food. The DPRK fat tax hasn't kept
Kim Jong Il from packing on the kilograms in recent photos.

[Frank Arthur]

Post by Mister Superstar
Frank Arthur wrote...

Post by Frank Arthur
Nah! It's better to see an obese America!
Fatter is better!

But America stands for personal freedom. Forced skinniness isn't
American, it's communist.

Ah! It is better to see obese people, sickly with poor diets affecting
men ,women, children even heavily obese babies destined to illness,
edformity and desease so food purveyors can push slogans by "Upsizing,
eat huge portions, make more profits by giving less nutrition and to
hell with America as long as profit is king. I suppose that the Food
and Drug administration is there because if it wasn't purveyors would
literally selling poisons.
Go back to China and your Commie friends so you are FREE to sell lead
painted toys to tots and put anti-freeze in your toothpaste.!

Post by Mister Superstar
I suppose a similar situation can be found in North Korea. Food
isn't actually illegal, it is simply priced beyond the reach of
most DPRK citizens, and only the Dear Leader and the privileged
elite Inner Party members who lick his ass are able to afford
such an unhealthy luxury like food. The DPRK fat tax hasn't kept
Kim Jong Il from packing on the kilograms in recent photos.

[Mister Superstar]

Frank Arthur wrote...

Post by Frank Arthur
Go back to China and your Commie friends so you are FREE to sell lead
painted toys to tots and put anti-freeze in your toothpaste.!

How am I communist for wanting to prevent the government from telling me
what to eat? And I despise China, though it is impossible to buy some
products that aren't made there. I believe in truth in labeling, and
I've discovered that labels on imported food items at Asian markets in
the U.S. are false. The nutrition labels often list impossible figures
given the listed ingredients, and there is no reason to believe that
is correct either.

The only problem comes from unlabeled or mislabeled food. Trans fat is
not outlawed, and I always look for it on the label and its presence and
how much is a factor in my decision to purchase it. You are the one who
is the communist, because you believe people are so stupid and ignorant
that they must be protected from their poor judgments and of course your
judgment on what they should eat is always correct.

BTW, you aren't posting from the UK, are you? I won't cheat and check
your headers, but your name and attitude seem British. I'm so glad
America declared independence, and one day I hope to invent a time machine
to go back to 1776 and give nuclear weapons to the Yankees.

[t***@spamgourmet.com]

x-no-archive: Yes

some of us lead lives full of despair and rage.

who else knows how it feels?

who else yearns for the sweet release of death, the release of
oblivion? Does anybody else understand the despair?