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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s so stupid to think you are free while you have to go through trouble of hunting down healthy foods on sale and spending compounded hours cooking so your kid doesn’t eat junk every day at school and educating people how they should not eat outside their house.

No one does this in France. No one goes around saying “Larla, you lazy slob,  shouldn’t eat in a cafe because you’re sacrificing quality for convenience” because the food in a cafe is going to be healthy.  No one thinks of sending kids lunches to school because their lunches are well balanced and healthy.  See how easy it is to live like that?

The government is us. We decide how we want to live as a country.  We set the standards.
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You are right, but you have to understand that [b]the PPs in this thread bleating in about personal choice are addicts who are panicking at the thought of government regulation of junk food. They will fight tooth and nail for continued free access to their drug of choice.[/b]

When the government finally stepped in and regulated tobacco -- after probably millions of deaths, but they finally did it -- there was a lot of very similar commentary from nicotine addicts. You can read the history of nicotine regulation and it's practically a guidebook to what is going on with junk food now. [/quote]

You seem really, really confused. [/quote]

And you are behaving exactly like addict you are.[/quote]

I'm not the poster you are responding to here, but you ARE confused.  Why would you assume people disagreeing with you are "addicts"?  I for one am slim and in good health because I make good choices, so am certainly not an "addict."  Many people here are trying to help you.  Listen to them.[/quote]

Why do you think I am talking about me personally? I'm not. I am fit, in good health, work out at minimum an hour a day, and have good food at home.  But I care deeply about this horrifying public health crisis, and what I see is [b]people like you who desperately want continued access to addictive foods stopping any sort of forward progress on regulations (which is the only thing that will stop this crisis).[/b]

[b]You are behaving exactly like an addict does: fighting any attempted regulatory efforts here, terrified about protecting your continued unfettered access to junk food. I don't care that you are skinny; you can still be an addict, still suffer from the metabolic diseases triggered by our unhealthy food landscape.
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If you truly cared about public health, you would line up to implement regulations to prevent a catastrophic health crisis. But you don't. [b]You care first and foremost about keeping the junk food spigot flowing. You are an addict. [/quote][/b]

Logic and reading comprehension are clearly very challenging for you, but I'll try again.  Just because I don't agree with you regarding the cause of the issue does not mean that I wish "the junk food spigot [to keep] flowing" because I am "an addict."  Google "false dilemma fallacy."

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