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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For those of you that think the government should be responsible for the obesity crisis, what do you propose they do? Ban certain foods or ingredients? Outlaw cheese puffs and potato chips, force people to exercise? There’s no possible way to legislate will power. Look how difficult it was even to get people to wear masks or get vaccinated. Look what happened during prohibition when government outlawed booze. They can get rid of subsidies, raise minimum wage, and make healthcare more accessible, and maybe even educate better, but in the end, they can’t just take away junk food or forbid people from dining at Disney.

I’m very thin and athletic and eat healthfully 95% of the time, but once in awhile, I too would like a donut or ice cream or French fry. I’m not addicted to these things but I do enjoy them on occasion.

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Not OP but I propose:

Significant, large-scale taxes on junk food and soda, with the taxes going to food education and healthcare (essentially the tobacco tax model).

Removal of corn (syrup) subsidies.

Subsidies to farmers who make vegetables and fruit for consumption.

Lawsuits and settlement agreements with the largest junk food manufacturers (again like tobacco)

Restrictions on sales to under 18-year-olds

This all could be done and would have measurable and likely immediate public health impact. We have tobacco as an example. We know this works.[b] But all the "git yer hands off my junk food it's totally free will" addicts in this thread are emblematic of the resistance this will face.[/b]

Individual cities/counties have tried all of the above steps I laid out. They have largely been defeated by malignant corporations who pour money into efforts to defeat the measures. They don't even have to do the dirty work themselves, they get people like the PPs to do it for them.[/quote]

It’s so incredibly hard to take you seriously when you characterize the thread like this…it makes you seem like you are not well-versed in the English language, or logic, or both.[/quote]

Too bad. I'm done coddling you people with your wildly outdated understanding of public health and devotion to the altar of junk food. I call it like it is. You are just like the pro-mass-shooting gun nuts. I don't care if you don't think of yourselves like rabid gun nuts. You are just like them at the core, both devoted to doing the dirty work of overtly bad corporations.

Freak out all you want. I don't care. History will show you are wrong, eventually. Keep siding with Nestle and PepsiCo. You will eventually lose. [/quote]

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