Health, fitness, gains and wellbeing

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

I am conflicted on this. Obviously I want everyone to get healthier, and it will save money on healthcare by making it more difficult to have an unhealthy lifestyle on the taxpayer dollar

But

It’s another slippery slope issue. Soda and candy are not poison. Poison is poison. Cigarettes are poison. Candy still has some nutritional value, it is edible

Do we stop there? So cake is still ok? Pie is ok? Or are those next? Junk food addicts are just going to keep switching to the next delicious junky non-banned thing

What about ranch dressing? Pretty unhealthy, should we make the poor eat dry salads or use vinaigrette only? What about juice? Usually not made with real fruit and loaded with sugar, why not ban it? Why not ban granulated sugar itself? That will prevent the poor from being able to as easily bake unhealthy things

I am all for getting America healthy. Just not sure trying to ban only a tiny section of foods for the poor is the way

[Jimjam]

Originally Posted by NopeNopeNopeNope [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

So cake is still ok?

[Reiwa]

Originally Posted by NopeNopeNopeNope [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I am conflicted on this. Obviously I want everyone to get healthier, and it will save money on healthcare by making it more difficult to have an unhealthy lifestyle on the taxpayer dollar

But

It’s another slippery slope issue. Soda and candy are not poison. Poison is poison. Cigarettes are poison. Candy still has some nutritional value, it is edible

Do we stop there? So cake is still ok? Pie is ok? Or are those next? Junk food addicts are just going to keep switching to the next delicious junky non-banned thing

What about ranch dressing? Pretty unhealthy, should we make the poor eat dry salads or use vinaigrette only? What about juice? Usually not made with real fruit and loaded with sugar, why not ban it? Why not ban granulated sugar itself? That will prevent the poor from being able to as easily bake unhealthy things

I am all for getting America healthy. Just not sure trying to ban only a tiny section of foods for the poor is the way

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I don't really like Keynesian bullcrap but subsidizing farms is important as a national security issue. If that means allowing snacky bullshit which sells at a higher volume and greater profit than healthy options, it's whatever.

[shovelquest]

farms should collapse, so communis.... communities can make smaller local farmers markets everywhere.

https://www.cato.org/commentary/why-...-so-disastrous

[Ciderpress]

It's a question of who pays for it. Other people shouldn't pay for your rice crispie treats. They aren't outlawing junk food.

[Reiwa]

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It's a question of who pays for it. Other people shouldn't pay for your rice crispie treats. They aren't outlawing junk food.

It's irrelevant who pays for it as long as the farm gets the subsidy.

[Ciderpress]

Originally Posted by Reiwa [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It's irrelevant who pays for it as long as the farm gets the subsidy.

They aren't outlawing junk food.

[Reiwa]

Originally Posted by Ciderpress [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

They aren't outlawing junk food.

Thanks captain obvious. I had no idea!

Farm don't get the cash unless fatties eat the cake.

[Ciderpress]

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Thanks captain obvious. I had no idea!

Jesus man I know that but your posts are always riddles. I'm like "junk food is fine if you buy it yourself" and you're like "farm subsidies". What?

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

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They aren't outlawing junk food.

It’s a ban on just candy and soda. What will that accomplish though? It takes literally like 10 seconds to walk over from the junk food isle to the baked goods isle and grab a few boxes of cookies (which aren’t banned) and then another 10 seconds to walk over to the sports drink isle and get a Powerade instead of a soda (still loaded with sugar)

Person buying them (with food stamps) still ends up just as fat and diabetic. So what did the ban accomplish? It wasn’t even an inconvenience to switch

Now if they banned all candy, ice cream, chips, baked goods, sports drinks, soda, AND juice, all at once. Well now the average fat person on food stamps might go “uh oh, what can I snack on now?” and it might actually become a problem for their bad habit

But just a ban on soda and candy alone seems like a literal waste of time to me. It’s like banning one flavor of ice cream, or just banning Kit Kat bars. It was a waste of of the paper to print it, and a waste of time to read it. It will accomplish nothing