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Grocery store vs school cafeteria


It's important to make the distinction between the adult marketplace like grocery stores and children's marketplace like school cafeterias. The movie talks about both places and I wasn't entire comfortable with their seeming to apply the same standards to both places.

For school, ideally in the future, there should be a process or machine that measures every individual's health condition and based on that allow/disallow or strongly suggest what foods are available for them to eat.

As for grocery stores, as someone with a high metabolism and finds it difficult to keep weight on, I don't want companies to remove all the options for full calorie / full flavor versions of their products. I enjoy eating tasty food and I have the kind of body that can accept more of it than some obese child.

I sympathize with those who have problems with restraint or lack discipline, but don't take it out on people who don't have that problem. And it's incorrect to assume everyone is incapable of enjoying things in moderation, that we're all children and need the marketplace dumbed down for us.

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Agreed. Make it known what you are eating, but don't punish those with restraint. I don't eat fast food much, but when I want a bad for you treat, I will eat a bag of M&Ms or go to Burger King and get a Whopper. The trick is that I do that at most once a week.

The Mexican dad who said the kid will eat it anyway is full of crap. Show me a 14 yr old that has the money to eat whatever they want. This guy is putting this food in their house.

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But it is NOT up to you. It is up to the majority. That is who the government was elected for fight for. So if the majority lack self control, the needle is going to sway to helping them out and you will be caught in it.

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Actually history is full of minority rights issues shaping government policy... are you a hetero white male who believes in a christian God? Doubt it. Legally the government has to reflect all its people, not just the majority.

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That is kind of true as well. Minorities and the white majority.

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