Jenna, Ted and now LARD ASS Chad Will Now Be Charged More Per Flight

So Chad thinks the nutrition labels aren't truthful? Bull-fucking-shit. If they weren't as accurate as they can make them, they would be sued into bankruptcy and we all know it.

As for "food deserts" not buying it. If all the convenience store sells is high calorie food.....DON'T EAT SO MUCH OF IT!

Eat one Pop-Tart instead instead of two. If you can't read the label, get someone to tell you how many calories are in the food.

Amazing - people don't want the government in their lives, but expect the government to deliver healthy food to them I suppose. Should we cut the food up into little chunks for you too? Give me a break!

obnoxious, unhelpful, and wrong.

Please tell me your understanding of nutrition isn't so limited to think that calories are the entire story. Here's an idea for you. Spend a few days drinking 20 Cokes every day as your sole caloric source. That will get you 2,800 calories, probably about right for a typical male your age. See how that works for you, and then come back and make suggestions about one pop tart instead of two.

All of our Walmarts do pretty well on produce. And since the whole foods went in there selection has gotten better.

You obviously haven't been paying attention. Like APOSTLE levels of obliviousness, I'm pretty sure liberals have been railing against subsidies to oil companies, defense contractors, corporate welfare, subsidized highways, urban sprawl, agri-business, hell, discussion of cutting tax subsidies for the mega rich has been a top thread for a couple days now.

Kindly consult your English to Conservatopianese Dictionary. Those things you're describing aren't "subsidies." They're "helping the job creators."

And if that's the only source of food within an hour's bus ride, then tough titties to them?

Calories aren't the whole picture, like Gul said. Pre-packaged foods are also usually chock full of sodium and other additives that are no good to the body.

It's reasonable to expect that supermarkets don't bend their customers over just because they can get away with it.

Here's a trick question for you: Can you guess what was the third greatest cause of premature death in 1900?

A subsidy is the provision of money to a business by the government. Not taking money from a business is not the same thing as giving money to that business.

If I take all but $20 out of your wallet, the logic of "tax subsidies" goes, I gave you $20. That may make sense to liberals, but it's insanity to anyone else.

Not in Libertopia. Such forcible bending is considered perfectly acceptable, as long as people are still "willing" to pay.

So... it's considered acceptable, provided people accept it? Shocking.

When people like you accept it on behalf of people who don't get the choice. Yes, shocking.

Yeah, because you know us Libertarians just hate freedom of choice. Yep, that's us, all right.

Wolf attacks?

Freedom of choice for yourselves, no. But you get all twitchy when someone suggests others should have it, too, as if there's only so much of it to go around.

Gastroenteritis. And what causes gastroenteritis? you ask: Bad drinking water and tainted food.

And how did the quality of drinking water and food improve? you ask.

Certainly not based on the beneficence of libertarian suppliers...

But ... but ... those were the good old days! When Americans were free and self-sufficient! When men were real men! Women were real women! And small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri!

Jesus please help me......I was using a Pop-Tart as just one example. And I'm really doubtful that someone cannot find at least some nutritional variety in a store or similar business within a reasonable travel distance.

And my understanding of nutrition must be more than rudimentary, since I lost about 25 pounds and kept it off for well over a year now, and my strength/cardio vascular/cholesterol, blood pressure/etc. would put many men 20 years my junior to shame. Just sayin'

So your attitude is "If it didn't happen to me, and I've never heard of it, it doesn't exist."

Unless it's illegal aliens stealing people's identities so they can vote.

Okay, prove this wrong:

OMG, Gubmint conspiracy!!11!

I don't want to sound like a communist, but Anc and gul are pretty much on the ball here. And as always fake solicitor Chuppa is projecting his own failings, in this case his middle aged tubby lardiness onto a larger problem.

I deal with fat fucks almost every day at work.

• Outside of cities there are towns in the deprived parts of northern England and the Welsh valleys - and ALL of Scotland naturally - where there are no sources of fresh fruit and vegetables within walking distance.
• The obsession with dietary fat has allowed high fructose corn syrup onto our plates and fuel an explosion in diabetes.
• Your appetite is pretty much set at age 5. A colleague saw a child last week whose mother gave him an energy drink for breakfast before school and fed him takeaways five nights a week. Coupled with the inevitable education failure that follows that child faces an almost impossible task to eat healthily throughout his life.
• That same colleague is currently studying the cost benefits of bariatric surgery as an intervention for the obese as opposed to lifelong 'reactive ' treatments.

Finally, I always travel at least business class on long haul flights to avoid the plebs.

Would you mind adding a bit more here? Our palate is defined by our diet before age five?

Nothing is set in stone. Obviously many adults have unlearned bad behaviors, but it's best if a child is never taught those things to begin with. And it is mostly learned behavior to gorge on McDonald's four times a week and guzzle four sodas a day, as one classmate I had in middle school told me she did.

That makes no sense.

Familial bad eating habits may become ingrained by age five, but taste preferences can change at any age.

Consumption! Is it consumption?

Can't find the source I linked to before, but TB (consumption) was first, followed by cancer, and then gastroenteritis.

Now, how much of that gastroenteritis was the result of things like cholera (i.e., tainted drinking water) and how much was tainted food (partly because of lack of refrigeration, but also because purveyors of meat and milk could literally get away with murder) is something that would have to be broken down further.

But we don't need no stinkin' Gubmint Regulation. People who sell food should be allowed to do whatever they want, because they'll just naturally be kind and generous and throw away the rotten stuff so nobody's kid dies puking their guts up.

They way bad press and information in general travel in real time these days (thanks internet!) if any food company was poisoning their customers on a regular basis they would be out of business. Thus, they don't need the same level of gub'mint policing that they may have needed a few generations ago.

BTW the biggest killer in 1900 was "The rockin' pneumonia and the boogie-woogie flu"if memory serves me.

You think there might be any chance at all that the first refrigerators weren't available for another decade or two?

Might that have been a big factor in people dying of food poisoning in 1900?

Do you think I might have mentioned that in the post you just quoted?

Yes, it was a factor...as I indicated. Now, convince me that the Meat Inspection Act was unnecessary, because no butcher would ever sell tainted meat or stuff his sausages with sawdust.

Garamet's right...a lot of food was being filled with stuff that wasn't, including sawdust in sausage along with industrial-grade dyes

Minimalist government is different from no government interference at all. And we know you like hard wood in your mouth, but I assume it's not as dinner.

Oh noes!!!! EVUL, EVUL, LIBERTARIANS!!!!! THEY'RE RUINING AMERICA!!!!

YUP! Ever since gubmint got in on it, we've never ever had one single case of salmonella. Nor have we ever been involved in war with other countries or stuck our noses in their business or interfered with there democratically elected leaders! Nor have we thrown millions and billions of our tax money at other countries or gave them weapons while people here starve. Yep. Our big bloated corrupt two party (Yeah right) government would never do that, unlike evul, evul, Libertarians.
Just as the American injun how good the gubmint treats them.