Pay Attention, Fatty
The state of Massachusetts (it would be Massachusetts, wouldn’t it?) is requiring that fast food chains list the number of calories included in the food they sell in the hopes that it will deter obesity.
It’s part of a sweeping new set of food labeling requirements, which will undoubtedly fail because you can’t legislate addictive behavior any more than you can legislate common sense.
Seriously, does anyone think that a fatty in the midst of a “Big Mac Attack” is going to cease and desist because they saw an “eleventy kabillion calories” label?
You could put a friggin’ skull and crossbones on the wrapper and that thing would still be inhaled faster than crack in Compton.
After this experiment fails, though, what’s next? Isn’t the logical progression for government to start legislating people’s diets?
Laugh now, but in the “age of O” don’t think they won’t try …
Oh, there’s no word yet from Jennifer Love Hewitt’s reps on this development … but we’ll keep you updated.
Comments
By Liberty For Me on May 14th, 2009 at 11:08 am
Too Bad they cant legislate not having dumbasses in Mass government!!
By Eric on May 14th, 2009 at 3:11 pm
Could be worse – they could be putting an additional tax on food over a certain calorie count.
By reggie on May 14th, 2009 at 7:41 pm
umm… i think that its pointless. the only REAL way we are ever going to destroy obesity is if the president got on tv and said something like:
“hey, fatty, get off your couch, put down that child your eating, and go exercise. im sending special forces on the way to make sure you do it too.”
because apparently, placing taxes on stuff wont do anything. i mean, look at alcohol/cigarets. two harmful substances that people still use even though we impose taxes on them and tell people “umm, you know that can kill you right?”
BE PROACTIVE PEOPLE!
By Elmo on May 14th, 2009 at 7:55 pm
Why in the hell are we subsidizing corn so it is the cheapest ingredient in our fast food diet. We fry the french fries in corn oil, coat the fried goods in corn flour, feed the beef cattle corn for the burgers and wash it all down with an extra large high fructose corn syrup drink .
Don’t be surprised that the cheapest calories around are empty calories made from corn.
Let’s quit subsidizing corn and encourage consumption of vegetables and fruits to improve the nations diet. Make food stamps worth twice the dollars at farmers markets and encourage local farmers to produce food for our local markets.
We subsidize corn, which makes us fat, and then pay the bills for diabetes, cancer, and heart disease.
Let’s eat what is healthy -not what makes the corporations rich.
By reggie on May 14th, 2009 at 9:38 pm
Elmo, that sounds excellent, but the biggest problem we face as a nation is that we have become somewhat indoctrinated from the corporations.
i mean, sure BK and Mickey D’s offer healither options for fries and drinks like milk and apples, but how often do you actually see people subbing their Dr Pepper and hot piping fries for some booring chocolate milk and apples? have you ever done so yourself?
im more willing to pig out on Monday, then run it all off on Tuesday as opposed to eating apples and milk.
so unless we can break the addiction, we will remain a country of fattys and everybody will be on medications for health problems.
the way i see it, we have two choices as people:
1) we stop caring about other people and allow social-Darwinism take place. those who are fat deserve to be fat, while those who are healthy deserve it because they took the initiative to do something.
2) the government takes a “eat your veggies” approach and enforce proper eating/exercising among the people. but this would be somewhat socialist/communist, and apparently, America sees these two ideologies as a sin and would not allow the government to tell them what to do, resulting to people becoming fat and blaming the government for not telling them they were fat, but they didnt want the government’s help.
so its a giant indoctrination circle.
By Toyota Kawaski on May 15th, 2009 at 8:32 am
I wondered where our fine Senator from Wisconsin had been last week.