War on Food McEscalating


I like bacon. I know, courageous stance right? Bacon is one of the delights of life on this earth. It’s a universal good, a boon; manna.

But like any universal good on this earth, there are those who disapprove. PETA, for example, and for obvious reasons. Luckily, I don’t see PETA successfully instituting global bacon sharia anytime soon. On the other hand, they may not have to. Just as there are universally good things in this world, there are universally stupid things. I call them progressives.

And guess what they’re coming for next? Your kids.

Have you read Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism? If not … why are you so communist? The smiley face with the Hitler mustache on the front cover is a reference to material in the book. The idea being that where fascism intersects with American life, it does so under the guise of do-goodery. It’s nice. Smiley-face fascism. (Not be confused with the smiley on the cover of Kos’ new book, which is a reference to nu-uh-ery.) So maybe we call the war on food “smiley-face eugenics”. Too far? Well let’s see.

So-called progressives, or liberals as they’re known in the wild, want to help you, you see. You being the poor, dumb, fat, probably racist, Ugly American™ that you are. It takes a village to fix what ails you, and why? Because you don’t know best. They know best.

Wear your seat belt! Put on that helmet! Don’t drink that, drink this. Don’t smoke! You’ll poke your eye with that thing! That is not appropriate behavior for two consentin … ha ha, just kidding. Bedroom is off-limits. But you know what’s not off-limits to the nannies? Happy Meals. Yep. That ancient cardboard (save the whales!) scourge has finally met its match in the form of city councils and “concerned” citizens groups. At issue? The toys.

Yes, kids. Democrats want to take away your toys. Hey, you don’t vote. So suck it.

As reported in the Christian Science Monitor, San Francisco is considering doing away with the Happy Meal. San Fran, or Moscow as its known in the wild, wants to help you, you see. To not be fat. In fact that may be their new city motto: Don’t Be Fat. Not quite as catchy as “Gold in Peace, Iron in War” but … war is bad? Mmmkay?

This wouldn’t be the first such action in California. Santa Clara, California recently banned restaurants in unincorporated areas from offering toys with meals that have some amount of calories they arbitrarily assessed as EEVVIIILLLLLL. I guess if you’re in an incorporated area you’re less prone to being lured. Did I mention the luring?

Yes, if you read the news reports the word comes up quite a bit. McDonald’s is “luring” children to unhealthiness with the siren song of Shrek watches and grease. A potent lure indeed (I caught a ten pound bass with the very thing). The source of the creepy imagery of a trench coat-bedecked Ronald McDonald enticing innocent children into his unmarked van, there to ply them with McNuggets and bendy straws seems to be this statement put out by citizen “watchdog” group the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) back in July, as reported by MichelleMalkin.com at the time. Relevant quotable:

“… using toys to lure small children into McDonald’s is unfair and deceptive marketing and is illegal under various state consumer protection laws.”

Lure. Nice. Now, perhaps you think I’m reading too much into that. Surely they don’t mean to compare McDonald’s to Chester the Molester with that word. Right? From the same statement:

“McDonald’s is the stranger in the playground handing out candy to children,” said CSPI litigation director Stephen Gardner. “McDonald’s use of toys undercuts parental authority and exploits young children’s developmental immaturity—all this to induce children to prefer foods that may harm their health. It’s a creepy and predatory practice that warrants an injunction.”

Got that? Creepy. Predatory. Stranger in the playground.


Artist’s rendering. If you see this man, seek shelter and celery. LOCALLY GROWN celery.

Also instructive is the assertion that McD’s is undermining parental authority. Note the subtle abdication of that very authority, and all personal responsibility, just by that remark. Kids are fat because toys lure them, and parents are powerless. Since you, you weak fat Americans, are too weak and fat to decide what to feed your kids, we will do it for you. Since you can’t say no on a case by case basis, we’ll just take away the option.

Taking away options, in the end, is what progressives are the very best at. Because some children are obese, and because some parents give them too many McNugget meals, well we’ll just take away the option. Problem solved! … Or is it?

Toys as a prize are certainly a value-add to any meal. Even steak. (Trust me.) But which parent among you thinks your kids would stop wanting chicken nuggets just because the latest “Eat Pray Love.” bauble isn’t included? Anyone? And when those toys are gone, are the “never say no” parents suddenly going to be empowered, the spell of plastic toys in plastic bags finally broken and their will to govern the health of their children finally set free?

Please.

They want your salt. They want your bacon. They want your toys. And soon enough, they will want the nuggets, too. McDonald’s CEO Skinner fired back at CSPI in July. And yet here we are again, potentially facing a fresh ban in San Francisco. Where next?

Where will this societal engineering end? There’s no obvious final line to cross in this way of thinking. Which bendy straw will break the camel’s back? How far, ultimately, is too far for legislating healthiness? Why not get rid of Ronald? Kids like clowns right? Well .. some do. What about breakfast cereal? How long until Frankenberry sits in chains? Until the Trix rabbit is put to sleep? Are these not enticing to children?

Come to think of it .. what about bright colors? Contests? Giveaways? Scrap all that too. Hell, even the name. HAPPY Meal? So you’re telling kids they might be happy? OUTRAGE!!

Here’s a preview of the Happy Meal to come:

Michelle Obama has declared a war on fat. Because fat kids, you see, are a threat to national security. New York continues the assault on salt, as does the FDA. The race to “perfect” is underway. Because the fatcat … err, thincats in Washington and in your city offices, well they just know better than you. It may take a village to raise a child, but it takes an army of bureaucrats to raise a THIN child. So say the progressives.

What say you? Me? I say, those would sacrifice liberty to wear a size three deserve neither and will lose um … growth.

But now I’ve gotta run. I’m having bacon for dinner. And maybe a side of BUTT THE HELL OUT OF MY LIFE.


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OK, let's get this straight.

itrytobenice (Diary) Thursday, August 19th at 7:50PM EST (link)

Abortion causes death, sterilization, breast cancer, etc. but that’s all OK. Homosexual sex, promiscuous behavior, drugs…all personal choices and should be left entirely up to the person without any advice or societal censure.

But Happy Meals … now that’s a problem. Those have to be controlled ‘for the children.’

Someone got our nanny from the insane asylum. What was it Marty Feldman said? Abby Normal. And she wants to run my life.

Proper grammar saves lives.

Let’s eat Grandma.
Let’s eat, Grandma.


Activists Taking Action: Unified Patriots

Wrong!

edintexas Friday, August 20th at 8:51AM EST (link)

“…all personal choices should be left entirely up to the person…” That is obviously wrong. What you eat is a personal choice, yet that is squarely in the sights of the Progressives. The aptly named MeMe* (whatever her last name), who appears on Fox News periodically, knows what is good for you, and your children, when it comes to eating. Your personal choice is immaterial to Michael Bloomberg. He considers your preference for using salt as equally bad for society as your preference for owning a firearm. For these people, you should not be allowed to make a choice.

I loved it when John Stossel, responding to MeMe’s* comments about toys and luring children, pointed out that children do not have driver’s licenses.

* Actually it is Meme, but the double capitalization seems to suit her views on life a bit better than the correct spelling of her name.

Proper punctuation saves lives.

 
 

Pork fat rulz !

oblio Thursday, August 19th at 7:51PM EST (link)

I’ve been waiting for the final straw to convince me to exercise my 2nd Amendment rights, this may have been it.

 

And I think for dinner...

itrytobenice (Diary) Thursday, August 19th at 7:53PM EST (link)

I’ll fix the kids a banana split.

Suck it, Michelle Antoinette.

Proper grammar saves lives.

Let’s eat Grandma.
Let’s eat, Grandma.


Activists Taking Action: Unified Patriots

 

And just *why* is McDonalds what's for dinner?

acat (Diary) Thursday, August 19th at 8:00PM EST (link)

Couldn’t have anything to do with mom having to hold down a full-time job to carry 1/3 of the mortgage…

.. or mom having to raise two kids alone now that daddy’s living with his new boyfriend…

.. or mom never having gotten past the 4th date with daddy …

McDonalds exists to fill a need – and while giving away toys that tie in to movies and whatnot does draw kids in, they keep coming back because the parents allow it… for a variety of reasons…

Mew

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self-portrait

“All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost”. –Tolkein

 

I love my cheesy poofs

Black River Wolf (Diary) Thursday, August 19th at 8:15PM EST (link)

They will have to take them from my cold orange fingers.

This is so utterly ridiculous and should perk everyone;s ears.

First they came for salt, then bacon and now Happy Meals. What;s next CHEESY POOFS, over my dead body

When are they going to just leave me alone and let me live my life the way i want without a NANNY telling me what I can and cannot do or eat

“In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame,
two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.”—-John Adams

Answer

edintexas Friday, August 20th at 8:58AM EST (link)

“When are they going to just leave me alone and let me live my life the way i want without a NANNY telling me what I can and cannot do or eat”

Answer: NEVER!

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
C.S. Lewis

The lunacy can end; but action is necessary

dontremaine Friday, August 20th at 11:14AM EST (link)

It will stop when we vote the progressives out of office and replace them with small government conservatives.
Don

 
 
 

I thought PETA...

mdyou (Diary) Thursday, August 19th at 8:27PM EST (link)

…stood for People who Enjoy Tasty Animals. Sign me up!

 

What about all the kids who are already skinny?

wolfeman Thursday, August 19th at 8:28PM EST (link)

What will happen to all of them? Will they just wither away to nothing from gross undernourishment? Have the know-all progressives thought about this? This could be another one of the many unintended consequences we’ve been hearing about alot lately.

Exactly! We are all different.

earlgrey (Diary) Friday, August 20th at 11:28AM EST (link)

If the libs just want everyone to be the same (except when they want them to be diverse), than let’s just do away with people and repopulate the world with clones.

 
 

Golly Gee

pamela1631 (Diary) Thursday, August 19th at 8:44PM EST (link)

And here I thought is was because kids got fat from not getting any exercise like they use to with running, jumping and just plain acting like crazy loons doing stuff kids like doing.

That and all the diet soda’s they seem to swill down trying not to get fat. Remember when real sugar soda was a rare treat and not a daily beverage choice?

Now where’s my chili cheese (extra crispy) bacon burger with guacamole?

Oh, Michelle..eat off your own plate and keep your meat hooks off mine.

This republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it. ~~Elmer Davis

I am stone forged from the fires of creation into flesh ~~Pamela1631

The greatest civilization is one where all citizens are equally armed and can only be persuaded, never forced.~~Maj. L. Caudill, USMC (Ret.)

 

The McDonalds near our house

izoneguy (Diary) Thursday, August 19th at 8:58PM EST (link)

is THE busiest place for lunch, everyday.
Good luck with the elites plan to alter the
business plan of McDonalds.

McDonalds will take them all out with
a Big Mac attack.

The point cannot be made often enough: Modern liberalism, as embodied in the Obama presidency, is the defender of the status quo. And the status quo is a road to economic ruin. Political forces cannot redistribute the wealth that the economic system does not produce.

 

All your nugget belong to us

johnCV (Diary) Thursday, August 19th at 9:31PM EST (link)

Someone set up us the nanny state

Charles Cianfrocca (Diary) Friday, August 20th at 9:01AM EST (link)

nt

“Get your hand out of my pocket. Ain’t nothin’ there that belongs to you.”

- Sonny Boy Williamson

 
 

Since when do libs care about parental rights?

AlexaShrugged (Diary) Thursday, August 19th at 11:48PM EST (link)

“McDonald’s use of toys undercuts parental authority…”

But abortion without parental consent? That’s A-OK!

Listening to a lib talking about parental authority...

randy streu (Diary) Friday, August 20th at 7:58AM EST (link)

is like Perez Hilton judging Miss America.

Not because he's gay...

randy streu (Diary) Friday, August 20th at 8:00AM EST (link)

because he’s a pink-haired, fashion-impared douche. And gay.

^ This.

stephaniet Friday, August 20th at 8:43AM EST (link)

Fashion-impaired doesn’t *even* begin to cover it. I hope never to see pictures of him again, because they always make my eyes bleed.

“*They* say the best weapon is one you never have to fire. I respectfully disagree. I *prefer* the weapon you only have to fire *once*. That’s how Dad did it; that’s how America does it… and it’s worked out pretty well so far.”

 
 
 
 

Stupid is as Stupid Does. What an Understatement

Michael Dugas (Diary) Friday, August 20th at 12:31AM EST (link)

Especially as it applies to Liberals!
California, Bankrupt and BILLIONS in debt….lets legislate Happy Meals.
California, businesses and working tax payers fleeing in droves…..lets force restaurants to stop using salt in their food.
California, a left over population of government dependent “victims”, illegal immigrants and Hollywood elitists……lets worry about kids getting free toys with their food.

Unemployment is rampant, debt is skyrocketing, businesses are leaving and their priorities couldn’t be more screwed up.

Next they’ll ban the word “Happy” from the Happy Meal because it’s misleading children into thinking they’ll find happiness in that little box.

I’m sorry but California is just plain stupid. They have everything, gas, oil, agriculture, tourism, fishing, every environment from desert to snow capped mountains and if someone was selling trips around the world for 10 cents a piece all they could do is run up and down the beach yelling “Ain’t that cheap!” They are idiots run by idiots for the sake of idiots and the few sane citizens left are the true minority in that state.

Intro to Federalist Papers; section 5;
paragraph 4.
“…dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people than under the zeal for a firm and efficient government.”

Remember: A Citizen on the dole is a Liberal Vote at the Polls.
END ENTITLEMENTS!

Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum !

 

Last I heard...

pamdale Friday, August 20th at 8:26AM EST (link)

Last I heard kids couldn’t drive. How are they getting there?

 

You know, the hilarity of the comments

stephaniet Friday, August 20th at 8:35AM EST (link)

sort of negates the idiocy of the liberal ideas revealed (again) in the blog post. And once I waded through the snark and the rallying cries for eating all the bacon a person wants, one thing remained: an overwhelming urge to yell out, “WTF are those libs THINKING?!” Do they *really* think they can outlaw Happy Meals? Erm… yes. That’s saaaad.

Interestingly, when I was two years old and my mother was bedridden due to slight complications from being pregnant with my younger sister, my father took me to McDonald’s because he didn’t know how to cook. Did I end up fat? Not really. My weight gain was all a part of growing up, and as I got older and taller, I slimmed down considerably. Of course, stress and willing choices to eat poorly have put weight on me in recent years, but that’s MY fault, not McDonald’s. I don’t even like that place anymore.

If I wish to eat healthfully, I will do so. If not, I won’t! Get thee out of my life, Nanny! Besides, I notice that Madame M has been eating a lot of ice cream lately… and it is beginning to show up on her derriere. *raises an eyebrow at her* Really, now, Madame… You lecture our children about being fat but cannot see your own posterior expanding? That’s so pathetically hilarious that I might just spew my morning tea all over the keyboard.

“*They* say the best weapon is one you never have to fire. I respectfully disagree. I *prefer* the weapon you only have to fire *once*. That’s how Dad did it; that’s how America does it… and it’s worked out pretty well so far.”

 

Has anyone noticed

politicalqrm Friday, August 20th at 9:41AM EST (link)

that Michelle Obama frequently berates the parents of America for feeding their kids fattening foods, yet when we see them on vacation (which seems to be all the time) the whole family is shcarfing down fattening ice cream? “Do as I say, not as I do!!”

While I don’t frequent McDonalds, sometimes I just crave a shake and fries. Parents bring their kids there for a treat, not a vital part of their diet. Geez, they want to destroy every bit of pleasure we have; but that is the socialist way.

.And as for all these vegan liberals: every time I see their emaciated and pasty faces at the organic section of my grocery store, I go right to the meat section.

I say we put a large fence around San Francisco and leave them to their own devices and policies. See how long they last..

GOOD point

Caleb Howe (Diary) Friday, August 20th at 12:43PM EST (link)

Ice cream from places with SPRINKLES! LURING! THEY WERE LURED!

Caleb Howe (formerly known as absentee)

 
 

Nanny [state] is a Mental Case

msgrant (Diary) Friday, August 20th at 11:08AM EST (link)

It’s increasingly clear that Nanny-staters are mentally ill and are on a quest to share their illness with everyone else. They also appear to be driven by shear evil. Big Picture solutions? 1) Sweep them from power and teach our kids what good and evil are again, 2) Re-define cultural norms by utterly “humiliating” the control-freakism worldview when we’re back in control of media and education. This insanity has *got* to stop…

 

Big Pharma, Meet Big Food --- Amsterdam, April 2011.

Kenny Solomon (Diary) Friday, August 20th at 11:29AM EST (link)

Uh oh…….

Pharma-Nutrition is set to take place next 18-20 April at Amsterdam’s NH Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky. The convergence of both pharmacology and food science professionals, will make this the first platform dedicated to the scientific interface between pharma and food.

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One-world government type stuff.

Gotta research this book publisher called ‘Elsevier’ and everyone involved.

Gut instinct: The hands of ICLEI and ICR2P are in deep.

 

Great read Caleb!! 5's

prior21us Friday, August 20th at 11:33AM EST (link)

Sure, regulate everything we eat, and why not destroy some small business’s in the process. Most McD’s are franchises. Sure, most used to make a pretty good business. But it is getting exceedingly harder to do that. A McDonalds franchise is somewhere around $2M now I think. Anyway, the progressives are trying to control every aspect of our lives. All about power.

I loved the way you used a little humor in your diary. Actually got a couple of laughs out of a serious subject. Think I’ll go eat a pound of bacon as a protest to the intrusion into my life.

$’s

Prior21us
aka
Dollars

 

They're not coming...

Melody Warbington (rwm52) (Diary) Friday, August 20th at 11:43AM EST (link)

They’re already here. I just hope my kid is indoctinated with my beliefs somewhere down deep enough so that they emerge when he’s through with his rebellious stage (college sophomore). Thankfully, he’s trends more libertarian than liberal, but mostly apathetic which is just shameful. He and his liberal group of friends worship the academia that do little more than fill their heads with mush. But he loves bacon, so there’s hope.

They can have my bacon and salt at the same time they pry my .38 out of my cold, dead hands, but I have to admit that I always thought Ronald McDonald was a little creepy.

The woman saith unto him, I know that Messiah cometh (he that is called Christ): when he is come, he will declare unto us all things. (John 4:25)

That would be "indoctrinated."

Melody Warbington (rwm52) (Diary) Friday, August 20th at 11:48AM EST (link)

Sorry!

The woman saith unto him, I know that Messiah cometh (he that is called Christ): when he is come, he will declare unto us all things. (John 4:25)

 
 

Michelle's own hubby smokes

Warrior (Diary) Friday, August 20th at 12:00PM EST (link)

cigarettes for crying out loud. Gee, what is it they say about people who live in glass houses…?

“Racial criteria are irrational, irrelevant, [and] odious to our way of life.” — Thurgood Marshall for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in the 1950 Supreme Court case of McLaurin v. Oklahoma

 

Let them eat cake! nt

alamo294 Friday, August 20th at 12:50PM EST (link)

I am a firm believer in wht the Bible

ihateliberals Friday, August 20th at 3:46PM EST (link)

teaches us about Free Will. Progressives have no right to dictate what the choices of a person are. Now through education you may be able to persuade someone to change their wants but it should be their free will that makes that choice. On the other hand I don’t like the people that complain in some of these towns because they let the city councils get away with this. they aren’t voted out so you have to assume that it is the majority will to ban these things that allegedly aren’t good for us. Just like you can’t legislate people to be moral you can’t legislate them to be skinny or smoke free or sober. Sooner or later these things will fail and sometimes with a bang.