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Originally Posted by OFKU0
If the money goes towards educating people who eat fast food, then I would support that. With billions and billions served shit like Mc Donalds, it seems educating the masses is long overdue.
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That is really the way I see things going. In Canada we used to have the Participaction thing in school. It was supposed to encourage exercise.
The other thing I see happening is what is happening right now in Canada:
1) the Ontario government is taking steps to ban all smoking in public places and work places. They are talking about making laws so that cigarettes cannot be displayed in stores (they can sell them just not display them in the open). The idea being that you make it increasingly difficult to find a place to smoke them and limiting the ability to market them.
2) The labelling and possible banning of things like trans fats. I believe Denmark is the only place that has banned trans-fats and that Canada has been looking into doing the same.
I don't see these trends going away, only becoming more prevalent. If we are going to pay for Universal health care we must take steps to educate and disinsentivise the use of harmful products.
flstf... healthy people don't pay more than anyone else. We all pay the same. The issue is more that people who lead an unhealthy lifestyle frequently end up being a drain on the system.