/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.11056611]

Why doesn’t the government do more to combat obesity?

[Anonymous No.11056618]

We could arrest people for being fat I guess

[Anonymous No.11056621]

Why should the government combat obesity?

[Anonymous No.11056630]

>>11056618
yes this please, send them to fat camps

[Anonymous No.11056632]

>>11056621
Because fat people are repulsive.

[Anonymous No.11056638]

>>11056632
Two options -
1.) the government tries to fix fat people
2.) the government leaves fatties to their own devices
which will get rid of fat people faster?

[Anonymous No.11056648]

>>11056638
>which will get rid of fatties faster

Mass extermination. But that will take too long to get underway. For now, though, we can begin by outlawing soda and sugar.

[Anonymous No.11056651]

>>11056621
Fat people shift the marginal private costs to society. The private benefits are greater than those of the society. Obesity creates negative consumption externality.

>>11056638
Push the costs of the society onto the individual. Alcoholics are not eligible for liver transplants, obese people can fuck off altogether from healthcare.

[Anonymous No.11056655]

>>11056638
The government tried the same thing with black people. Dismal results.

[Anonymous No.11056659]

>>11056611
Because "government" is little more than a magnet for the corrupt and sociopathic, eventually, it becomes filled with a majority of people that don't give a shit about anything but themselves and the party.

Our "government" is little more than a corrupt small town government that cares more about the (((money))) it can make from people like the corn industry for ignoring the obesity their shitty products help cause.

"Government" may start out with good intentions and decent people, but it's just a matter of time before all the decent folks are driven out, and that happened in the U.S. in 33' when that piece of trash FDR sold us out to (((banker))) scum by dropping the gold standard.

[Anonymous No.11056670]

>>11056659
Nixon took us off the gold standard, faggot.

[Anonymous No.11056674]

Obesity makes money??

[Anonymous No.11056681]

>>11056670
Keep cool with Coolidge, doublenigger

[Anonymous No.11056725]

>>11056611
>Why doesn’t the government do more to combat obesity?
bad food is big business.
virtually all restaurant and snack food is unhealthy.

[Anonymous No.11056752]

It's hard to protect stupid and lazy people from themselves. Especially since nothing about any food is harmful on it's own. However, I think parents of obese children should be charged with child abuse.

[Anonymous No.11056760]

>>11056681
call me doublenigger again i dare ya

[Anonymous No.11056770]

>>11056760
(You) doublenigger

[Anonymous No.11056796]

>>11056611
Because no major corporation has found a way to profit off slimming fat folks.

Once they do palms will be greased in a snap

[Anonymous No.11056797]

>>11056725
>bad food is big business.
>virtually all restaurant and snack food is unhealthy.
HFCS is in almost everything you buy. It's not just snack and junk food Anon. Stop the government subsidization of corn and watch HFCS drop out of favor as a food additive.

[Anonymous No.11056820]

In yurop anyway it's much more of a debated topic. Fat people, druggies and criminals/incarcerated people are massive strains on the public budget so it'a natural they want to get rid of it. More individualistic countries don't have the same issue.

[Anonymous No.11056851]

>take my tax dollars to "fix" other people's dumb decisions

fuck that and they shouldn't go to pay for medical shit directly resulting from those dumb decision either

[Anonymous No.11056858]

>>11056611
>Why doesn’t the government do more to combat obesity?

They do.

They just tried to pass a massive soda tax here in Atlanta but it was quickly turned into a race issue and the bill deemed "racist" since most of our soda consumers are black.

> You can't help a people who refuse to help themselves

[Anonymous No.11056860]

>>11056851
you are going to be paying either way. seems better to give money to prevent the problem than to try and fix it after it's happened, no?

[Anonymous No.11056861]

>>11056797
>HFCS is in almost everything you buy
It's in nothing that I buy. See pic related. This is what food looks like. If it has an ingredient list then you shouldn't be buying it.

>>Stop the government subsidization of corn and watch HFCS drop out of favor as a food additive.
the subsidies are far less significant than other legal matters, specifically the import duties and quotas on sugar that were passed during the late 1970's. The subsidies have existed far longer than that and back then Americans still used sugar instead of HFCS. The import duties on foreign sugar were the real determining factor.

[Anonymous No.11056884]

>>11056861
forgot my pic like a moron

If this sort of thing isn't the overwhelming majority of what you are eating then you are failing hard at living.

[Anonymous No.11056885]

Why don't we tax fat people based on their weight?
Like every 5 pounds overweight is $100 more in tax

[Anonymous No.11056886]

>>11056796
the opposite, can only profit off of dieting if people are fat in the first place

[Anonymous No.11056895]

>>11056611
>Hurr wage war on it
>We'll nuke fat into smithereens whoo doggy

This kind of thinking is why America is fat.

[Anonymous No.11056912]

>>11056885
If that helped the situation sure. You could also, you know, teach more about nutrition, cooking and economic grocery shopping in public schools.

[Anonymous No.11056931]

>>11056912
use the fat tax money to fund it then you fucking fatty

[Anonymous No.11056934]

>>11056860
no, because the best way the Government could fight obesity would be to severely alter one of it's already existing programs that directly contribute to it, namely food stamps

immediately ban the from being used for Soda, Juice, Candy, snack food(cookies, chips, etc), possibly the frozen isle as well, make people on them buy from the produce, dairy and meat isles, the obesity trend increases on the lower end of the social scale because they tend to eat shit

[Anonymous No.11056941]

>>11056611
>Americans

[Anonymous No.11056957]

>>11056611
Fat humans deserve to die and the sugar and corn industries are more important