Re:Don't Fuck with Big Sugar
by throwaway75787 on Monday December 27, 2021 @03:15PM
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In case you haven't been keeping up with current events, Congress has been wrapped up with a bow, put on the shelf, and sold. Pelosi is not even pretending to hide it, while there are fistfights in the streets for COVID tests two years into this pandemic. Big Sugar (is this the same lobby that puts high-fructose corn syrup into everything?) not being Fuckable With is a relatively luxurious issue. Livelihoods depend on their rent-seeking.
If a top Madison Avenue agency offered to work with the Surgeon General for free to develop a national effort to promote exercise and nutrition education in youth, and fight pandemic depression, I bet that Big Sugar would lobby against it.
It’s not the fatness but rather the corporate greed and dishonest advertising that’s the real issue, because people don’t realize the fatness isn’t natural and caused by diet. This stems, in my opinion, as a lack of general ethics and morals in the face of big cash. I have given up trying to figure out how we can instill ethics and morals into people these days, because cash is king. Maybe a crazy solution would be to limit how much anyone can make to like 50x minimum wage, then most people might not sell their ethics for piles of money? I don’t know but clearly many people would rather sell out their fellow humans for a big payday.
Re:Don't Fuck with Big Sugar
by spacemadness on Monday December 27, 2021 @04:11PM
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If what you postulate is true in that we can’t instill ethics and enact change due to greed and a focus on self-enrichment then it seems safe to assume that goes for capping limits on earnings as well.
This is one of the worst regressions of human civilization. We are, on average, much less fit than in 1970, and the regression is even stronger in the more developed countries.
And there seems to be no one willing to spend political capital on this problem. Too many people feel uncomfortable just voicing their concern. One of the reasons might be that the problem is ubiquitous. Liberals are fat, conservatives are fat, atheists are fat, Islamists are fat, nationalists are fat ... perhaps not to the exact some degree, but aside from the Amish, all kinds of people are fat and this alone makes the topic awkward.