Guvment Diet

[Sean Hayden]

Should the government attempt to regulate our diets to make us healthier, and more responsible consumers?

[Brian Peacock]

[JimC]

They can regulate anything except my gin consumption...

[laklak]

They can regulate my smegma.

[Sean Hayden]

[Sean Hayden]

They can regulate anything except my gin consumption...

We'll need gin soaked pirates to run the good food.

[pErvinalia]

Should the government attempt to regulate our diets to make us healthier, and more responsible consumers?

As much as people roll their eyes at this debate, it's actually a tricky subject. So tricky that I'm not going to comment further just yet ..

[JimC]

Should the government attempt to regulate our diets to make us healthier, and more responsible consumers?

As much as people roll their eyes at this debate, it's actually a tricky subject. So tricky that I'm not going to comment further just yet ..

A certain amount of financial incentive is, I think, reasonable. For example the current Oz GST does not apply to foods like fresh fruit, vegetables or meat, but does apply to processed foods such as a store-bought cake, which at least is in the right direction. Whether it is enough is another matter...

[rainbow]

Should the government attempt to regulate our diets to make us healthier, and more responsible consumers?

No people should eat whatever they like, and die young if that is what they want.

Nanny-Statist!

[Brian Peacock]

I suppose one might consider diet a public health issue, in some senses at least. Yeah, people should eat what they like - we each have personal dominion over our bodies and carry ultimate responsibility for what we put in it. But for some that free choice, and thus the extent of that responsibility, is limited or skewed because, say, there isn't much to choose from or we can only eat what we can afford, etc. Also, a significant proportion of the population have next to no choice about what they eat and mostly just eat what they're told to - that group being children.

Telling your children to, "Shut up and eat your lard," is not being responsible, particularly if lard is a major component of every meal time. With all the information around about the probable health consequences associated with an over-consumption of dietary fats then continuing to pump your kids full of foodstuffs weeping with saturated and trans fats does start to look a bit like abuse - even if lardy cakes taste absolutely delicious.

Having lardy cakes every day as an adult may be a free choice, to some extent, but if lardy cakes start to become a problem for you--you just don't want to put those things in your mouth any more but can't seem to help yourself--then help should be available.

What choice did these 'little' tikes have?

[Hermit]

is well worth pondering.

[rainbow]

What choice did these 'little' tikes have?

We in Africa live in mud huts and eat roots.

Do you hear us complaining?

[Brian Peacock]

Sorry. I didn't mean to be insensitive raindear. I know that one of those kids would feed your village for a week.

[rainbow]

True dat.

[Woodbutcher]

I suppose one might consider diet a public health issue, in some senses at least. Yeah, people should eat what they like - we each have personal dominion over our bodies and carry ultimate responsibility for what we put in it. But for some that free choice, and thus the extent of that responsibility, is limited or skewed because, say, there isn't much to choose from or we can only eat what we can afford, etc. Also, a significant proportion of the population have next to no choice about what they eat and mostly just eat what they're told to - that group being children.

Telling your children to, "Shut up and eat your lard," is not being responsible, particularly if lard is a major component of every meal time. With all the information around about the probable health problems associated with an over-consumption of dietary fats then continuing to pump your kids full of foodstuffs weeping with saturated and trans fats does start to look a bit like abuse - even if lardy cakes taste absolutely delicious.

Having lardy cakes every day as an adult may be a free choice, to some extent, but if lardy cakes start to become a problem for you--you just don't want to put those things in your mouth any more but can't seem to help yourself--then help should be available.

What choice did these 'little' tikes have?

The Michelin Man as a child.