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Monday, December 03, 2007
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Who Runs Your Life?

Before you foolishly suggest that you do... consider the following:

The FDA is moving to change the classification of salt from something which is "Generally Regarded as Safe" to a "Food Additive" which can be regulated.  Apparently the government no longer trusts your ability to read labels and take action accordingly... not that the government has ever trusted your ability to do anything in the first place.  Via The Agitator.

Several Senators are proposing an amendment to the farm bill which would create a national ban on selling candy, sugary soda and salty, fatty food in school snack bars, vending machines and à la carte cafeteria lines.  School boards and parents wishes be damned, the federal government is going to place more unconstitutional regulations on schools... for the kids of course.  Via Cato.

I ask this question often, despite the fact that I know that an answer will never come... but I'll ask it again anyway.  When will this stop?  Where exactly is the limit on what regulations and impositions the government can make on you?  I wonder what will be next.  Sigh.

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Monday, December 03, 2007 3:31:17 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
I'm right there with you, Nick.

Where will it stop? Will it be illegal to buy candy, sugary/salty/fatty foods if you are a parent with a child? Will I go to jail one day for making a birthday cake for my son?

At the same time, the people who think one Snicker's bar will cause obesity work rabidly to ban pretty much all rigorous physical activty from gym classes and playgrounds. Can't ruin self-esteem and can't have kids potentially get hurt running around outside. But oh, the horrors of obesity!

It won't stop until we say enough is enough. And I crossed that line long ago. Won't others join me?
Amy P.
Monday, December 03, 2007 4:25:42 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
What's next? Comments on blogs.
Monday, December 03, 2007 6:06:33 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
Apparently, none of you have ever tried to teach a room full of freshmen hopped up on Mountain Dew and Flamin' Hots. Screw physical fitness; I just want control of my classes.
Tuesday, December 04, 2007 10:47:10 AM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
Yes, it's difficult to control these kids that are hopped up on unhealthy snacks, but should the government be allowed to regulate these things? These kids have to learn self control at some point or another, and if it's not being taught at home, making it a law likely isn't going to change anything either.
Tuesday, December 04, 2007 4:44:38 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
Apparently, none of you have ever tried to teach a room full of freshmen hopped up on Mountain Dew and Flamin' Hots. Screw physical fitness; I just want control of my classes.

No. But that's the job of the parents, not the government, to regulate what their kids eat. If it means withholding lunch money and having the kids brownbag it, so be it. Yes - even for the kids who have their own jobs.

It's the parents' responsibility to make sure their kids learn proper nutrition; not the government.
Amy P.
Tuesday, December 04, 2007 11:42:48 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
should the government be allowed to regulate these things?
In school? Absolutely. In your home? No.

But that's the job of the parents, not the government, to regulate what their kids eat.
In school? Parents aren't cooking meals in school. Parents don't--or shouldn't--expect the school to be filling their children with HFCS and sodium and caffeine. And parents shouldn't have to rely on brownbagging to be sure--it should just be the default. You put your kids in the hands of the people YOU PAY to take care of them, and they should be taken care of, not fattened like pigs for slaughter.

Someday I will go into my whole lecture on how the feds ARE making us fat, not the free market. (What do we subsidize?) But not today.
Wednesday, December 05, 2007 9:21:13 AM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
I think ya'll have missed my point... and since this is my blog... my points are obviously the most important. However you feel about the need to regulate these things in school cafeterias... the federal government shouldn't be the one doing the regulating! It should be up to school boards... period.
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