Why someone is okay with your kids eating crap
A fiery Michelle Obama vigorously defended the healthy eating initiative that was her biggest legacy as First Lady on Friday, telling a public health summit in Washington D.C. that something was “wrong” with an administration that did not want to give consumers nutrition information or teach children to eat healthily.
“We gotta make sure we don’t let anybody take us back,” Obama said. “This is where you really have to look at motives, you know. You have to stop and think, why don’t you want our kids to have good food at school? What is wrong with you? And why is that a partisan issue? Why would that be political? What is going on?”
I’ll take a guess. Freedom? Our precious Murikan freedom to let children eat whatever crap the marketers want to shove at them? Our determination not to let Faceless Bureaucrats in Warshington [let alone Michelle Obama] force children to eat healthy foods at school?
“Take me out of the equation — like me or don’t like me,” Obama added. “But think about why someone is okay with your kids eating crap. Why would you celebrate that? Why would you sit idly and be okay with that? Because here’s the secret: If someone is doing that, they don’t care about your kid.”
The comments were Obama’s first public remarks on the Trump administration’s assault on nutrition policy, which has already seen the delay of rules meant to reduce sodium and refined grains in school lunches and provide calorie counts on restaurant menus. The former First Lady championed many of those programs.
It’s our Divine Right to fill children with salt. We can pickle them if we want to! We have freedom!
The past four months have seen the food industry seize onto President Trump’s anti-regulatory agenda, arguing for the delay or suspension of rules that Mrs. Obama encouraged. In recent weeks, the National Association of Convenience Stores, the National Grocers Association and the American Bakers Association have all cited the Trump administration’s regulatory rollback as reason to delay the menu-labelling rules and new nutrition labels.
Freeeeee-eeeeeedom.
It’s as though they don’t want information. They want to say it’s better for powerful interests to withhold information from you. Only liberals like information, I guess?
Well, Trump eats fast food, and look how successful he is! Why would you want your kids eating healthy? Then they’d grow up to be vegetarian wimps. Sad!
But Free Markets(tm) only work if all the participants are well-informed! Surely any Small Government, Free Market (glory be to the Free Market!) advocate would be in favour of ensuring that people know what they’re buying, in order that the Invisible Hand (May It’s Fingers Never Become Arthritic) do its job with greatest efficiency!
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Keeping the kiddos plump..maybe it distracts them from learning about the corruption that lies ahead.
Karellen @3
“But Freemarketism(tm) only works if all the participants are well-informed!”
Yes, indeed and it works perfectly if all participants are perfectly informed. One of the most disturbing facts undergraduates learn in an Economics 101 course is the Grand Canyon between theory and reality.
If we could use cigarette smoking as a model the struggle to regulate junk food consumption Is going to be a long war, the tobacco companies are still fighting a rearguard action, sixty years after the habit was determined to be deadly. I wonder if Trump intends to liberate smokers from all those restrictiive regulations.
I’m all for letting Roger Stone now smoke himself to a slow death. In prison, a bit later. Hell, let him wear stripes too!