The entire conversation regarding what food an individual may eat has taken on a chilling aspect. Society seems to be moving toward a Huxleyesque brave new world in regard to the interest in which the government takes in the daily diet of individual citizens. Advocacy and promotion by some toward a healthier menu is a right anyone has, the current movement to legislate food consumption as a functional right of governmental jurisdiction has an Orwellian undercurrent which should alert individuals on all levels.
If current health care laws are going to regulate what is eaten utilizing a distortion of the Commerce Clause as a basis for enforcement, then it could become a tool of oppression. The, argument being that since everyone pays for everyone else's health care then the government as the representative of the people has the right to regulate what each person may eat under the auspices of "maintaining a proper health standard".
This story appears cutesy, cutesy on the surface (along with the presidents recent remarks in Wisconsin when he was eating fatty food of "don't tell Michelle") but the deeper facts are the old adage "do as I say and not as I do". This has always been the case with Govt., haven't we worked through that and developed a polarity between the government and the governed? Bottom line, Keep your hands off my french fries and cheese burgers.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
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