March of the Food Fascists
I’ve been warning you all how dangerous the control freaks are, and how they will move from one bugaboo to the next when they’ve done their work. Tobacco has been all but banned. So they are looking for something else to demonize. What do you think they are talking about here?
“We are exactly where we were with tobacco in the 1970s,” said Barnard. “The health community was just starting to get its hands around the problem. This is clearly a long battle. But people are starting to wake up.”
They want to ban something. Something most people like. Guess what that is?
Yes, a food staple that is responsible for making Americans some of the best nourished people on earth. But in the F.F.’s so called minds, being well nourished is evil because that means OBESE!
The Obesity epidemic is another manufactured crisis like man-made global warming. And the same scolds and hysterics are lining up to line their pockets by the criminalization of foods. They’re going to start with wanting warning labels, then taxes, then limits, then bans.
We really can’t let these people continue on the way they are. They won’t stop with corn. Be certain that sugar, flour and any other processed food will be attacked. Then what? Hmm...maybe certain sports. Because people get hurt playing sports. You think I’m joking? Did you think corn would be considered enemy #1 in your life time? These people are beyond parody.
Look at the way tobacco and smokers are being criminalized. Realize that a lot of that is the product of years of hysteria and propaganda. Now they’re setting their sights on something you probably enjoy. Get ready.
UPDATE: Here’s the other method they use. Studies that claim ___ will give you cancer. They did that with cigarettes and it worked, so now they claim everything they don’t like will give you cancer. And you’re supposed to believe it because “experts say so”. This is a classic logical fallacy. Appeal to Authority.
Hockey players were forced to wear helmets a few years back. This season there’s a bunch of hand-wringing over requiring face shields.
But as you say, the safest hockey is none at all. And that’s end game for the Nanny State, isn’t it? Perfect safety for all, regardless of your wishes?
Because, after all, it will cost health care money. And that’s unfair.Posted by on 10/31 at 07:21 PMRegarding the cancer thing, it’s been known for decades how to get the “correct” result from any study. First, you use cancer prone rats (yes, such strains are commonly available--in fact, regular strains are almost never used). Then you megadose them until they get cancer, which can almost always be done. Then you announce that “XXX causes cancer.” The MSM and most people will never read the fine print in the study and see how worthless the conclusion is. Edith Efron detailed back in 1984 how this is done is her most awesome book, “The Apocalyptics,” An absolute must-read. She also wrote a book in 1973 (!!) detailing how the MSM distorts the truth and produces a readership of dangerously misinformed fools ("The News Twisters"). Truly a woman ahead of her time.
Posted by on 11/01 at 01:26 AMYou can take away anything else, BUT NOT MY CORN!
Posted by on 11/01 at 07:15 AMHey, what a surprise, they’re going after a whole bunch of other stuff!
http://tinyurl.com/28xfrl
“The World Cancer Research Fund study found strong evidence that eating red meat and processed meats such as pastrami, salami, and frankfurters can cause bowel cancer.”
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“He also suggested the direct link between increased weight and increased cancer risk was even stronger than the link between cigarettes and cancer:
“With smoking, we know that if you smoke you increase your risk, but most smokers in the end don’t get cancer, so it’s not a one-to-one relation,” he explained.
“With obesity it is very clear and it is a graded phenomenon. The more overweight you are, the more obese you are, the higher the risk of cancer.”Posted by on 11/01 at 07:20 PM
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