Re: Does the govt have the right.....
"if a govt entity can ban some kind of voodoo food how come they cannot ban alchohol sales, kills way more than some kind of fat. howcome they cannot ban tobbaco sales, kills more than alchohol and some kind of fat together?"
I agree that alcohol and tobacco should be banned, but we all know it is all about the tax money.
One arguement towards banning trans fat and things like it is most people have no idea what it is or that they shouldn't eat it. Yeah, you could put a list of ingredients on the menus and have people responsible for themselves, but people are lazy, and would just skip past that information and just order what looks good. Yeah, its government intervening "for our own good", but we ask for it by being lazy. We have lazy parents that feed their kids crap, the kids grow up to feed themselves crap, and the cycle continues.
Most of the people who eat crap are also the people who do not have insurance, and our tax dollars go to treating these people who are either too lazy or lack the knowledge on how to care for themselves. It is about the bottom line.
Same as seatbelts. We all know it is more safe, but those who cost the rest of us through insurance and medical costs by not wearing them forced the guvment to implement laws to try to save lives and probably more importantly, to cut costs. If we don't want the guvment to intervene, then we should probably get off our lazy arses or quit making selfish decisions "because its our right". We don't have the right to be stupid when it costs everyone else time and money.
