Are you willing to trade you twinkies and chips , so that goverment can keep you healthy

Question

Are you willing to trade you twinkies and chips , so that goverment can keep you healthy

Answer 1

Willingness will have nothing to do with changing the American's eating habits,you will be coerced into compliance,first probably with a junk food tax such cigarette,alcohol tax, then second with a greater good type law, such as seatbelt,helmet laws.Americans are losing their freedoms one by one, the land of the free has become the land of laws.  

Answer 2

"Banning" food will never work. It didn't during Prohibition for alcohol, it won't now for junk food. If people WANT it, they will find a way to get it. The answer is education, education, education. Also, "junk food" is OK as a treat... just not as a primary diet source. People don't have to totally deprive themselves, just use some common sense.

This has to be a societal change that comes from constant, well-placed messages about the harm of fatty, sugary, empty-calorie foods. The good news is... there is starting to be a shift. People are becoming more aware of what they eat, but it won't happen over night.

Answer 3

What you're really asking is whether we are willing to trade our freedom so that the government can tell us what we can and cannot eat.

The answer is a resounding NO!

Answer 4

No; at this stage in my life, I've already eaten enough trans-fat to sink a ship. I'm not so sure it would help me. lol

Answer 5

I don't eat twinkies or chips, but if you think that I would trust the Gov. to keep me healthy, I have a bridge in N.Y. that maybe you would like to buy.