Here we go again! Not content to simply regulate CO2, you know, the gas that comes out of our mouths when we breathe, there’s new talk of regulating everything that goes into our mouths as well. Get a load of this:
It's time for a national policy on food. Brilliant essay in today's Washington Post: http://t.co/bvGjpej5wN
— Al Gore (@algore) November 9, 2014
Gore’s tweet links to this WaPost piece by Mark Bittman, Michael Pollan, Ricardo Salvador and Olivier De Schutter. An excerpt:
The food system and the diet it’s created have caused incalculable damage to the health of our people and our land, water and air. If a foreign power were to do such harm, we’d regard it as a threat to national security, if not an act of war, and the government would formulate a comprehensive plan and marshal resources to combat it. (The administration even named an Ebola czar to respond to a disease that threatens few Americans.) So when hundreds of thousands of annual deaths are preventable — as the deaths from the chronic diseases linked to the modern American way of eating surely are — preventing those needless deaths is a national priority.
Yikes! And it’s not just Al Gore who is pretty keen on this latest intrusion into our lives by the government:
Recommended
A spot-on call for a "national policy for food, health and well-being." A thoughtful essay: http://t.co/YuzpJAPU2O h/t @algore
— Peter Bowes (@peterbowes) November 9, 2014
Brilliant points made in WashPo essay on need of a national policy on food and nutrition http://t.co/rt8U4n1x5X @EricHolst @GrowingReturns
— Dr. K. Kritee (@KriteeKanko) November 9, 2014
Finally. It's about time. http://t.co/XL2xhoXJWg
— sylviastein (@sylviastein) November 9, 2014
How a national food policy could save millions of American lives – The Washington Post #UniteBlue http://t.co/er021Og0vn
— Graham, Stanley (@StanLeeGee) November 9, 2014
https://twitter.com/kneath/status/531503866698039299
But as you might expect, many on Twitter aren’t very happy with the idea at all:
They never, ever stop. Ever. RT @washingtonpost: How a national food policy could save millions of American lives http://t.co/QEoY5NrT8i
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) November 8, 2014
https://twitter.com/Ejrussell03/status/531162389899911168
@charlescwcooke @washingtonpost not if FLOTUS provides the menu
— Arthur Dudlets (@ADudlets) November 8, 2014
https://twitter.com/GarbGarb/status/531162677159403520
@algore How about a national policy on hypocrisy?
— Rep. Steven Smith (R-GA) ?? (@RepStevenSmith) November 9, 2014
@algore Which means it'll never happen.
— Antifa and Proud * * U2? (@OnePageWriter) November 9, 2014
https://twitter.com/jdenny27/status/531463738600464384
Al Gore-endorsed Idiocy: 'Food system has caused incalculable damage to health and planet.' http://t.co/Qn1iFWSrI6 pic.twitter.com/jl9AGQUwSU
— Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) November 9, 2014
If it were only “idiocy,” we might be OK, but this is pretty totalitarian.
Join the conversation as a VIP Member