As to kids eating like that... I suspect it has more to do with corporations, not the kid or their parent's, pushing that crap on society with ever increasing marketing skills. Advertising. Your complaint methinks would be best focused on the manufactures whose concerns are profits at all cost, even if those costs are the health and welfare of the consumers themselves. Why are we even making that stuff?
I'm simply gobsmacked. Do u truly belive this ? Starting with even the first sentence. What if the kids are not even exposed to media? And whose holding the card?
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Sugar is the most addictive “drug” in my eyes, but if the gummit starts regulating what foods we can or cannot consume has me very very scared.
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To "people" like glinda, life is all about Your Uncle and mine (Sam) or his cousins in various state, county and city gigs, regulating, i.e. controlling, the good people of Puna and thereabouts. Power and Control. Just like when Uncle Harry tells you you are NOT allowed to look or touch the lava. If it wasn't lava, it would be something else that the Puna people couldn't see, do, hear, touch, play with, eat, drink etc., etc., etc., be they DemocRATS or RepubliCANT'S, their M.O. is much the same.
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Perhaps they could pass a law that says you have to jog to work everyday...
Actually, in Japan, there are some very restrictive laws on behavior.. including fat. Seriously, they impose waistline limits for adults ages 40 to 74. Men must maintain a waistline at or below 33.5 inches; for women, the limit is 35.4 inches.
https://mic.com/articles/84521/japan-has....EklrpJK8k
And they police it. Try reading the article at the link above.
And yeah, I know, freedom means the freedom to be stupid, fat, smoke, whatever. Though, and my central premises still is, our freedom is abused beyond measure by folks trying to make a buck. In many ways advertising is our enemy, not our friend.
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[i] my central premise is...our freedom is abused beyond measure by folks trying to make a buck...
is a load of BS!!!
Yup, GM puts such piss ants such as Idi Amin, Pol Pot, Uncle Ho, Chairman Mao, Adolf, el Duce, Uncle Joe, Vlad the Impaler, et al to shame in the "beyond measure" category.
Get a clue, Linda. You live in the greatest, most-free, opportunity-ridden enterprise ever to grace the planet. Try pulling your weight instead of dragging your feet. Otherwise, you might scorch your heels on some still-hot lava.
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Yeps .. Oo my kids are obese . Shoots, who to blame today ?
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As to kids eating like that... I suspect it has more to do with corporations, not the kid or their parent's, pushing that crap on society
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No. It is the parents choosing to utilize the free money on those items instead of healthier items.
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I think you can bet money on the fact that the junk food manufacturers spend money on lobbying to make sure their products can be purchased with an Hawaiian EBT card. They don't miss stuff like that.
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I think people under estimate the power lobbying does. We sit and b*itch on social media. While corporations spend billions of dollars giving politicians ( gifts).. to get a return. FWI Hawaii isn't the only state that does this, they all do . God bless America.
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