Re: Re: Obese Man Sues Fast Food Chains

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Quoting alecwood <bill@...>:

>

> > I've been waiting years for this. I was certain it was bound to

> happen. Love it is putting it mildly. If I could dance a jig, I

> would.

> > Ed

>

> Ed, I certainly don't think it is time to celebrate. Although most of

> this groups is against fast food our choices may soon be affected.

> They are attacking fast food on the grounds that it is too high in

> fat, not that it is the wrong kind of fat or that it is full of sugar

> and white flour. That could be a problem for us. There is talk of

> taxing high fat foods, which of course would include butter (100%

> fat) or walnuts (90% fat), or chickens that are not skinless, and

> just about any meat that is more than 30% of calories from fat. I've

> already seen a poll where 36% of those polled where in favor of it.

On the other hand, how many people here actually obtain their butter--

which, by the way, is only about 80% fat--legally?

Do you remember where you saw the poll? It's not that I can't believe that

36% of the people in this country would be foolish enough to support such a

tax, but political organizations do have a habit of designing and

conducting their polls in such a way as to bias the results in their favor.

On a tangentially related note, I'd like to plug Stossel's upcoming

report on the War on Drugs, which will air this Tuesday on ABC at 10:00 PM.

This should give you a pretty good idea of what the War on Fat will look

like thirty years from now if all goes according to plan.

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Berg

bberg@...

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Here in California we can now get raw butter legally! Up until recently it

was contraband!

In a weird forshadowing, about a year and a half ago, when state certified

raw milk was available, it was still not legal in LA county and law

enforcement actually raided health food stores confiscating raw milk. This

would be hysterically funny if it were not so scary. That whole event

triggered a major protest and lobby by the raw foodists and certified raw

milk is now legally sold in LA. Whew!

Irene

At 04:26 PM 7/28/02, you wrote:

>Quoting alecwood <bill@...>:

>

> >

> > > I've been waiting years for this. I was certain it was bound to

> > happen. Love it is putting it mildly. If I could dance a jig, I

> > would.

> > > Ed

> >

> > Ed, I certainly don't think it is time to celebrate. Although most of

> > this groups is against fast food our choices may soon be affected.

> > They are attacking fast food on the grounds that it is too high in

> > fat, not that it is the wrong kind of fat or that it is full of sugar

> > and white flour. That could be a problem for us. There is talk of

> > taxing high fat foods, which of course would include butter (100%

> > fat) or walnuts (90% fat), or chickens that are not skinless, and

> > just about any meat that is more than 30% of calories from fat. I've

> > already seen a poll where 36% of those polled where in favor of it.

>

>On the other hand, how many people here actually obtain their butter--

>which, by the way, is only about 80% fat--legally?

>

>Do you remember where you saw the poll? It's not that I can't believe that

>36% of the people in this country would be foolish enough to support such a

>tax, but political organizations do have a habit of designing and

>conducting their polls in such a way as to bias the results in their favor.

>

>On a tangentially related note, I'd like to plug Stossel's upcoming

>report on the War on Drugs, which will air this Tuesday on ABC at 10:00 PM.

>This should give you a pretty good idea of what the War on Fat will look

>like thirty years from now if all goes according to plan.

>

>--

> Berg

>bberg@...

>

>

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>On a tangentially related note, I'd like to plug Stossel's upcoming

>report on the War on Drugs, which will air this Tuesday on ABC at 10:00 PM.

>This should give you a pretty good idea of what the War on Fat will look

>like thirty years from now if all goes according to plan.

We can hope, though, that the current nascent reversal in public opinion

about fat will continue to grow and topple the low-fat doctrine.

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