Now the Food Police strike

Well, that didn't take long. ObamaCare is not even fully implemented yet, and already the Federal Government is looking to regulate what and how much food you can eat. The Daily Caller has the report in a piece on 22 June 2011 entitled Feds Look to Regulated Food Similar to Tobacco by Neil Munro.

If you believe that you own yourself, this should deeply offend you.  Countless people warned that if ObamaCare was passed, the Federal Government would acquire the means to regulate every behavior it wanted to regulate.  Here is the first fruits.  Rush Limbaugh has talked about it.  British Member of the European Parliament has warned us about it.  And to be fair, depending on what poll you read, between 50 and 70 percent of Americans were against ObamaCare.  Eighty-two percent of Americans were happy with their current arrangements, thank you.  But the Democrats passed ObamaCare anyway.  Why?  Well, because of the fact that the only way they could reasonably be able to control what you eat, what you do, where you go, and how you live, is by the excuse that we are all now paying for your bad habits.  Believe me when I tell you that it will only get worse, and that the craziest ideas will now have a hearing, and get a chance to shove their ideas down every one's throats.

And for crazy ideas, there are none crazier that those of the Center for Science in the Public Interests.  Of course, there is no science, and the public's interest is the farthest thing from their minds.  So let's look at the Center for Science in the Public Interests (CPSI), mentioned prominently in the Daily Caller piece.  Here is what Activist Cash had to say about this supposedly benign watch dog group just looking out for what is best for you. But in reality, CPSI is a scare monger group that, as Jacob Sullum of Reason Magazine says:

CSPI is driven by a “suspicion of pleasure without pain, of enjoyment unencumbered by fear,” argues Sullum. “That suspicion,” he concludes, “is the thread that runs through CSPI’s uneasiness about artificial sweeteners and caffeine, its dire warnings about fat and salt, its campaign against the fat substitute olestra, its hysteria about acrylamide in French fries, its discomfort with food irradiation, its condemnation of the imitation-meat product Quorn, and its opposition to alcohol consumption as a way of preventing heart disease.” (For the lowdown on many of these fears, see CSPI’s “Blackeye.”)

In fact this group is a actually composed of few poor benighted souls with connections to all the usual suspects: The Tides Foundation, a Soros money laundering operation, The Union of Concerned Scientists, the Sierra Club, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, which has been taken over by neo-prohibitionists, the Humane Society of the United States, a false flag operation, Greenpeace, and others.  Their funding includes grants from the Tides Foundation and the Joyce Foundation.  Past grantors have included the Robert Woods Johnson foundation.  If the CPSI had their way, our diet would consist of three organically grown salads a day, hold the dressing.  But remember, even that "healthy" food will kill you some day.

Just as running will not extend your life, though some of it is good for you, so eating a spartan CPSI diet will not make you live longer, though you may feel like it stretches out before you to eternity.