But look at the picture that accompanies the story;
The results were blamed on a reliance on junk food and lack of co-ordination in government, agriculture and industry. Picture: PAThat burger doesn't look too bad. Occasionally I either buy Angel Bay burgers or make my own, put them on fresh rolls with fresh lettuce, tomato, and cheese. Everybody likes them. What's the big deal?
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Brian, Thankfully we have graduated from McDonalds. The kids got disinterested in the toys, the playgrounds and more discerning about food.
Now we do BurgerKing:-)
How about banning the advertising of junk food and a media campaign re healthy eating?. Would that be distastefull to a libertarian and if so why?
Henry
Hi Henry, I wouldn't support banning advertising. You still have free will. Ignore it.
A media campaign for healthy eating? If the private sector wants to run one promoting it's own foods, fine. As a taxpayer I don't want to pay for a public health initiative. Look what happened in Scotland. Money down the drain. I don't want nanny using my money to tell me what is and isn't good for me.
Nanny only thinks she knows what's good for you.
She really clueless. The evidence for that surrounds us.
I don't know the details of what happend in Scotland, but suppose advertising was effective and it had positive spin-offs such as a better health system (fewer people in hospital)?
Henry
Plenty of books on diet in the library.
But those who have their heads wedged up orifice posterior and don't know what a good diet is by now, probably wouldn't ever visit a library...
The Scottish are notorious for having a high fat diet. What most people fail to recognise is that it is freaking cold in Scotland. They need the extra warmth. I'm sure the Inuits eat a fair amount of seal blubber themselves.
Henry said, "suppose advertising was effective and it had positive spin-offs such as a better health system (fewer people in hospital)?"
The welfare state gives people all the wrong incentives. If your (ill)-health costs will be paid for by someone else then why bother to avoid incurring them? So then we have to start trying to "educate" people away from their bad eating (add in gambling, smoking and drinking). But even if the education programmes had some "positive spin-offs"(and it would take years to assess) the welfare state is still in trouble because then it faces big increases in funding longer retirements, on top of the rapid expansion in over 65 year-olds we already face.
I would rather attempt to educate people than prohibit but as long as we persist with the welfare state and its inherent bad incentives public education campaigns are just a bandaid on a sore that won't heal.
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