Why not incentivize healthy eating instead? Lower the cost of health insurance for those who eat healthier and exercise regularly. Provide better education. I also like subsidies, but if we're going to have them, subsidize produce so that everyone can afford it. Have you seen these prices lately?

Anonymous wrote:Sure

Coz bans work



Just like Prohibition

I'm looking forward to the speakeasy that sells Twinkies

Yeah don't buy those bathtub Twinkies.

Anonymous wrote:A lot of people are being silly about their definition of processed. For the majority of people processed is mac & cheese, not a block of cheese. It’s a cup of noodles and not a box of pasta.

I think people need to be smart about their food choices, but I do not support a ban on processed food.

But what if the cup of noodles is all organic dried vegetables and bullion? I just don’t see the point in drawing these lines. Make healthy food cheaper and more accessible. Teach kids how to cook and educate people better about why this food is good for you.

My kids are in MCPs and there is zero education about cooking and the education about food health is abysmal. Half of it is still promoting the low fat nonsense from the 80s as if they were a bunch of middle aged women doing jazzercize in Long Island. There was a great article in the post a year or two ago explaining how a variety of fruit vegetables promotes a healthy gut biome that then increases brain health, etc. this is what we should be teaching kids, along with how to prep and cook these foods in delicious ways. McPS extended their worthless health class by a semester and it’s just more of the same stupid stuff that the kids hate and don’t listen to. They would have been better off making the second semester a cooking class in which they learn how to cook healthy food from a variety of different cultural backgrounds. Kids would actually like that class and it would be useful to them.

Anonymous wrote:Sure

Coz bans work



Just like Prohibition

I'm looking forward to the speakeasy that sells Twinkies

This. A focus on what actually goes into the foods is more important particularly the chemicals and hormones that treat our “fresh” foods. The veggies, fruit and meat/poultry. Hormones given to dairy cows and chickens. Farmed fish….and bread! What the hell has happened to bread? It’s like marshmallows. Why not focus on the quality of the food so that “healthy” is actually that and junk stays junk.

Sure

Coz bans work



Just like Prohibition

I'm looking forward to the speakeasy that sells Twinkies

To those supporting bans on processed foods, I don't understand your reasoning.

1. Not all processed foods are the same. If you believe something should be banned you have to clearly define what it is that everyone knows exactly what you are referring to.

2. Then if you're going to ban something you have to make a valid case for why it should be banned, and provide supporting evidence that such foods are harmful.

3. You have to take into account the unintended consequences of such bans. By doing so you open the possibility of black markets, and organized crime such that we see with prohibition and the war on drugs.

4. Also lets not forget that by taking away things people enjoy responsibly is kind of F'd up. Alls I'm saying.

A lot of people are being silly about their definition of processed. For the majority of people processed is mac & cheese, not a block of cheese. It’s a cup of noodles and not a box of pasta.

I think people need to be smart about their food choices, but I do not support a ban on processed food.

Anonymous wrote:Define “processed food”.

Exactly.

Butter, cheese, and yogurt are processed foods. So is filtered honey.

OP likely means ultra processed foods. I would support an age limit (21+) and 300% tax on ultra processed foods. Treat them like nicotine and alcohol because they are highly addictive, too. They are designed to be that way.

Anonymous wrote:All processed food? No! Absolutely not. Processed… You realize that means things like chips, crackers, cereal etc?

I would support the banning of cancer-causing chemicals and preservatives and things like that. Europe already does that.

I agree with this.

Anonymous wrote:I think if government tried to tax heavily processed food and beverages, MAGA would lose half their base. Take a drive through Appalachia and tell me how many Whole Foods markets you see. It is extremely difficult to eat healthy when the only market within an hour of your house is a gas station or a Dollar General. Maybe instead of making unhealthy food more expensive, the focus needs to be on making healthy more accessible to all Americans.

Even then, how do you convince the average American to eat a pile of sautéed kale over “heart healthy” (processed) cereal? We are a nation of convenience, fueled by major corporations and food lobbyists. Good luck changing that dynamic.

The problem with sauted kale is that there is a single flavor: bitter. That's not going to be enjoyable. Something needs to provide balance. But the unprocessed food nuts are going to claim that the only preparation that is healthy is a big pile of raw leaves. If the medicine tastes bad, it must be good for you.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Define “processed food”.

This. Pasta? Bread? Cakes? Corn flakes? Canned pasta? Chips? Snacks? Goldfish / graham crackers / marshmallows?

Which of these do you think should be subject to additional taxes?

All these are processed. I wouldn’t support selective taxing of food.

All dairy products are processed.

Raw milk is not processed. Ergo raw milk is healthy.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Define “processed food”.

This. Pasta? Bread? Cakes? Corn flakes? Canned pasta? Chips? Snacks? Goldfish / graham crackers / marshmallows?

Which of these do you think should be subject to additional taxes?

All these are processed. I wouldn’t support selective taxing of food.

All dairy products are processed.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Healthy food already is relatively more affordable than processed food.

Wrong. An apple costs more than a bag of doritos.

Where?

Anonymous wrote:Define “processed food”.

This. Pasta? Bread? Cakes? Corn flakes? Canned pasta? Chips? Snacks? Goldfish / graham crackers / marshmallows?

Which of these do you think should be subject to additional taxes?

All these are processed. I wouldn’t support selective taxing of food.

Yes 100 percent. The food in the US is crap. Everyone is getting sick!