When i first heard about the push to clear the path for the Cheeseburger Bill i was taken aback. On the one hand this is telling the American purveyors of obesity and cancer that they can do whatever they like. Go ahead, advertise your faces off, and make the world a miserably fat, unhealthy and disgusting place… we can’t sue you , and you can shout “I’m lovin’ it!” as loud as you like. That’s shocking. Not really because of the action, that’s been going on forever… but because of the official endorsement by the government. Where were they when i was trying to make a cogent argument in favor of smokers’ rights? Thanks a lot you big-gulp-biased chuckle-heads!
Consumers have to realize they cannot blame others for the consequences of their actions.
On the other hand, if we choose to eat crap that’s not good for us, knowing full well that it’s not good for us, well… Don’t we have the right, as Americans, to be crack heads if we want to be? If we don’t shouldn’t we? We left wingers tend to collapse at this phase of the argument. We think that marijuana is ok, but tobacco is bad, we think that abortion is a woman’s right to choose, but the death penalty is wrong. We are a divided set, and that explains why the corporate pirates get whatever they want in this world. Between our soft, mushy brains, and our devotion to propaganda, self-centeredness and television there’s really not much hope for the present generation.
But this begs the question: If i wanted to sit on my ass and stare at the wall, huffing fatties and wolfing down McCows, shouldn’t that be my right? I mean, if that’s what I really want to do…
It seems to me that the government is in the pocket of its benefactors. Never in history has this been so clearly documented, or unopposed. Everyone in power is corrupt, and the corrupt are cheered, applauded, egged on for “gettin’ theirs.” We know what’s going on. We see it plain as day. We’re not out in the streets screaming for their heads are we? Nope, we’re in on the couch sipping Mountain Mike’s Cocktail in a can and snacking on the fried flesh of some poor animal, raised in a pen, slaughtered in terror, and partially hydrogenated to be even more delectable as we much on it and barely swallow before shoving another one (or two) into our mouths.
You go girl!
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yeah, I’m with you on this… although I’m glad big tobacco got sued for health care costs…
funny: a german beer company is looking into creating a beer that contains nicotine, ostensibly for those jonesing smokers in non-smoking bars…. but I dunno, I heard somehwere that nicotine is addictive…. is this exploiting consumers?
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,1732310,00.html
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When you get right down to it, whether the government lets us sue or not, is irrelevant in the big picture. The vast majority of each person, let alone all living things, is on automatic pilot, responding to the exegeses preprogrammed into the body and highly susceptible to the environmental information presented to it. Why should we think that our government be reasonable when the universe itself is neutral. The miracle is that some people still eat seaweed, not by necessity.
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mmm… i’ll have a wakame salad please!
yum!