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Originally posted by Charlatan
I say, use the system. Spend government money marketing healthy living. Give tax breaks to Corporations that bring healthy foods to the market and tax those that don't. Educate the public on what is exactly in their foods... the new lables indicating the presence of transfat is a start.
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The government already does this with some products. Cigarrettes. Do you ever wonder why cigarrettes cost so much? The cigg companies get taxed up the ass by the government because they're not healthy. I'm not sure about the truth ads but maybe the government even puts some money into that.
Still...people do what they want to. Lots of people still smoke....even when it's starting to be banned in lots of resturaunts and bars (the whole of NYC did this and I believe places in Cali did this too).
As for educating people about what's in their foods...I believe this is taught in health education in high school and middle school. There are already labels on most foods saying the ingredients and nutrition facts. I'm not exactly sure how people can be forced to read them.
I guess it wouldn't be too hard to incorperate these policies into other things...but there's a point where it crosses the line. More government involvement is never a good thing. Nobody wants the government telling them what to eat and what not to eat.