Should the government bar food stamps from being used to buy sugary and fatty foods?

[Elok]

He might be more readily convinced if you called him a fool a couple more times.

[Al B. Sure!]

The only thing you said on the matter in this thread was the caveat, so how was I supposed to know you were making the opposite argument? Guynemer was complaining about how the government was dumb enough to think people should be encouraged to give their children juice. You gave no indication that you actually wanted these people you consider incompetent idiots to start controlling people more.

WHAT THE **** IS THIS THREAD ABOUT, IDIOT?!

'Should the government bar food stamps from being used to buy sugary and fatty foods?'

[Al B. Sure!]

He might be more readily convinced if you called him a fool a couple more times.

He's a ****ing *******. All he does is be a contrarian sniveling little *****.

[giblets]

WHAT THE **** IS THIS THREAD ABOUT, IDIOT?!

'Should the government bar food stamps from being used to buy sugary and fatty foods?'

Yes, that is indeed the topic of the thread. People can be for it, but also against it. If someone comes along ranting about how incompetent and stupid the government bureaucrats are, I think a reasonable person can infer that said person is against having the government regulate what food stamps are spent on.

[giblets]

He's a ****ing *******. All he does is be a contrarian sniveling little *****.

I am not a contrarian.

[Guynemer]

Re: that study you posted...

it is intriguing, no doubt, but of limited scope and applicability at this point. I'm not going to put too much stock in it until it has been replicated in humans, both juveniles and adults.

[Hauldren Collider]

all-natural, no-sugar-added fruit juice FTW

Dude, fruits don't need to have sugar added. They're already loaded with it.

[Al B. Sure!]

It's sad that Jack LaLanne talked about the problem with sugar way back in the 1950's (before he sold out with his juicers). Did America listen to what was known 60 years ago? Nope.



He suggested cutting these out of your diet for just five days and you'd feel better and be thanking him the rest of your life:

White sugar
Candy
Cake
Ice cream
Jams
Jellies
Cookies
Pies
Pastries
Canned fruits
Soda

America, why you no listen?

[Dinner]

A lot of the problem is what people can actually buy at the corner store in the ghetto. Most of these people are dirt poor, many do not even have a car, so it is difficult to travel out of walking distance especially if they're carrying lots of grocery bags. If the local "store" is a 7-11 then they can really only buy what is sold there for the price offered. Guess what? That's mostly junk food and not lots of fresh fruits and veggies. The prices are probably high too.

[giblets]

OMG! When will Americans see the light and realize that cakes, candy, cookies and ice cream are JUNK food? Alby is so smart.

[Al B. Sure!]

OMG! When will Americans see the light and realize that cakes, candy, cookies and ice cream are JUNK food? Alby is so smart.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-21/angry-moms-take-on-nutella-to-fight-sugary-advertising.html

Laura Rude-Barbato, a coffee shop owner in Imperial Beach, California, used to feed her children Nutella several times a week.
It was easy to identify with the advertising that depicted a frenzied mom serving up the chocolate-hazelnut spread with the tagline “breakfast never tasted this good,” said Rude-Barbato. Then she noticed the 10.5 grams of sugar per tablespoon.

“I had no idea,” she says. “I might as well have been giving my kids a brownie for breakfast.”
Rude-Barbato kicked the Nutella habit, then joined a class action lawsuit in a federal court in California that claimed Ferrero SpA’s U.S. unit misled consumers via labeling and marketing into thinking Nutella was healthy. In January, Ferrero settled the case and a similar one brought in New Jersey, without admitting guilt, for almost $7 million.

Americans are ****ing stupid.

Then you have low-fat cakes and stuff that people swear are healthy (they're even marketed as diet food) when the sugar is still there and often more sugar is added to make up for the fat removal.

[Ben Kenobi]

A lot of the problem is what people can actually buy at the corner store in the ghetto. Most of these people are dirt poor, many do not even have a car, so it is difficult to travel out of walking distance especially if they're carrying lots of grocery bags. If the local "store" is a 7-11 then they can really only buy what is sold there for the price offered. Guess what? That's mostly junk food and not lots of fresh fruits and veggies. The prices are probably high too.

I used to live in an area like that in Vancouver.

Funny thing - they had a close grocery store, several of them in fact. Why isn't it still open? Theft put them out of business. It wasn't just there, it was several of them, all trying to make a go of it there.

[giblets]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-0...vertising.html



Americans are ****ing stupid.

Then you have low-fat cakes and stuff that people swear are healthy (they're even marketed as diet food) when the sugar is still there and often more sugar is added to make up for the fat removal.

Finding one dumb, lawsuit-happy American doesn't really make your case very well.

[Al B. Sure!]

American consumer habits show how widespread the stupidity is.

[giblets]

Yeah, if people don't spend money the way YOU would spend it then they're dumb and you should be in charge of telling them what to consume. I know. Yeah, I can't wait to live in a world where all candy, soda cookies and cakes are banned because some elitist ***** decided he knows what's best for everyone.