On 5/24/07, Alberto Monteiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Nick Arnett wrote: > > > > By letting those who are to blame for their own illnesses just die? > > ;-) Seriously, though, I'd have a hard time differentiating personal > > from systemic causes for unhealthly lifestyles when there's so much > effort > > invested in advocating them in advertising, marketing and so forth. > > People are social creatures; it's naive to imagine that some sort of > > "Just say no" mentality would make all those problems go away. I'm > > not saying you're making that argument, but I've certainly heard it. > > > There is a big part in parents responsability. Now (partly because > of economic pressure) I seldom bring my kids to unhealthy foodstores > like McDonalds, but even when I was less miserable the max was > 1 MacDonalds per month. > > And there's a very Evil aspect of this: food with trans fat costs > _much_ less than a similar food without trans fat. If I were > paranoid, I would suggest that the reason is that Food Companies > and Medical Companies are owned by the same evil and greedy people.
You raise an interesting and important point. It is less expensive -- sometimes *much* less expensive -- to each unhealthy foods than it is to eat healthy. Maybe instead of subsidizing the military-industrial complex, the government could subsidize healthy food. :-) I'm only half-way kidding. -- Mauro Diotallevi "Hey, Harry, you haven't done anything useful for a while -- you be the god of jello now." -- Patricia Wrede, 8/16/2006 on rasfc _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
