RE: Why isn't there a fight against unhealthy food like is for drugs?
May 18, 2017 at 4:00 am
(This post was last modified: May 18, 2017 at 4:35 am by Homeless Nutter.)
(May 18, 2017 at 2:41 am)It_Was_me Wrote: Color me crazy [...]
No, I'd rather color you uninformed and biased.
1. War on drugs has been an utter failure. Why the f*ck would anyone want another misguided, politically motivated effort like that to be undertaken? How desperate are you for a totalitarian state to babysit you?
2. There is no clear distinction between "healthy" and "unhealthy" food. Fast food restaurants use the same ingredients as most restaurants. The main difference is the price of the products - poor people can't stuff their faces everyday with butter, sugar and salt served generously in upscale establishments. If they did - they'd get just as fat and unhealthy as McDonalds customers often are. And many rich people - especially old ones - are fat and unhealthy, it's just that there are fewer of them and you don't get to see them waddle around your local high-street.
3. Our scientific knowledge of the reasons for obesity is still very limited. It's nothing like tobacco, where studies show 2000% the lung cancer rate among smokers, compared to non-smokers. Best studies we have show differences around 30%-50% and are usually uncontrolled and based on self-reporting, because you can't hold people in a lab for years, making sure they eat only hamburgers, or only kale. That's why there's still a debate and why there are so many different approaches to nutrition - many of those being just fad diets and quackery, trying to make a buck among all the misinformation.
4. How is McDonalds delivery different from all the other fast-food delivery already available? Do you think pizza is healthy? Or curry? Newsflash for you - most food will make you fat, if you inhale enough of it, especially if you don't lead an active life.
5. There IS a "war against unhealthy food" going on. It's just that nobody's putting people in jail, as there is no clear science to assign the blame. But there is plenty of fat-shaming in the media and on the internet and plenty of snobs, who can afford personal chefs, dietitians, trainers and liposuction surgeons, telling the unwashed masses what they are doing wrong - which mainly comes down to "you people are too poor".
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
