NYC Mayor Bloomberg: 'Government’s Highest Duty' Is to Push 'Healthy' Foods

[ThaBigP]

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/nyc-mayor-bloomberg-government-s-highest-duty-push-healthy-foods


There are powers only governments can exercise, policies only governments can mandate and enforce and results only governments can achieve. To halt the worldwide epidemic of non-communicable diseases, governments at all levels must make healthy solutions the default social option. That is ultimately government’s highest duty.

Why not a new NGO? We could call it, "Come On, We're Just Hiding The Chocolate Milk International" or something...

[JBond]

The new mafia runs NY.

[iceberg]

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/nyc-mayor-bloomberg-government-s-highest-duty-push-healthy-foods

Why not a new NGO? We could call it, "Come On, We're Just Hiding The Chocolate Milk International" or something...

good luck telling people what to eat. : )

[VTA]

Governments highest duty is nothing of the sort. You can tell a city is running on auto-pilot by the utter blather running from the lips of it's mayor.

[ThaBigP]

FYI, this wasn't a speech to NYC, it was to the UN. It's more than NYC. Also, notice all those restaraunt chains that asked for, and received, Obamacare waivers? Seems they're in the news lately with Michelle O, announcing that they will be removing "unhealthy" items from the menu, to be replaced by healthier "choices". I love their ironic use of that word ... "choices" ... considering the healthier alternatives have always been on the menu. They just *also* had french fries and fried okra too. That's about to change... Like I said before, Michelle and 'Bama will be gnawing on tamales and ribs that YOU pay for, while forcing you to eat carrot sticks with a cup of warm water for dippin'. And they'll force you by removing your choices. And that can, and will, come in many forms. Food businesses will be leaned on in exchange for waivers of this law and that law, this regulation and that regulation, that would otherwise drive them out of business. Farmers will be told what they can and cannot plant. Ranchers will be told what they can and cannot raise. That is, if farmers and ranchers want to be waived from "dust regulations" and whatnot. Stores will be told what they can and cannot stock on their shelves, for all the same reasons using the same leverage. You want food they will call "unhealthy"? Eventually you'll have to grow/raise it yourself. OH WAIT! They've initiated regualtions for "small farms" down to and including individuals growing their own tomato plants... oh well. More dippin' water, anybody?

[Cajuncowboy]

Unreal......