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So no measures should be in place to preserve the long term production of food. OK, sounds good.
If a subsidy is truly a subsidy, it will lower the price of that product and increase quantity.
Let the marketplace and farmers decide the "long term production of food". Do you think a handful of disconnected "experts", politicians and bureaucrats can determine the necessary agricultural needs to feed 320,000,000 people?
Read up on the results Maos famine when China collectivized farming.
Not really. Are you disputing that we can't get an idea of how much we spend on obesity related diseases?
Are you disputing an obese person has a higher risk of heart disease and diabetes than a non- obese person?
Of course any healthy, thin person can get any disease or have any number of accidents, but what is the cost? Again, we spend $100-200 billion dollars on preventable healthcare.
Ok, but how is obesity the direct product of meat consumption? Having steaks, a pot roast or baked chicken is the root of the evil?
Or perhaps its processed animal products fried in a vat of grease topped with processed cheese like substance with a side of potatoes fried in a vat a grease on a big ol' bun slathered in butter washed down with a liter of soda while we sit pecking on our devices or watching TV.
Or all the sodium and sugars added in the processing of our processed food we snatch at the drive thru window on our 2 hour commute to work. Or that extra greasy cheese pizza we pick up on the way to driving little Suzzie to her play date where they sit around inside playing video games because Lord forbid they go outside and play, they might get fall down and get hurt or kidnapped or shot.
We can but we can't assume these costs all go away if no one was fat.
Lol. What is so confusing about differentiating the costs of heart disease related to obesity verses a non obese person with disease?
Heart disease wouldn't completely go away if no one was fat but can you at least see how heart disease wold be dramatically reduced?
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I have no idea what proportion but a proportion of which we would spend anyway. All the same, this argument is nothing more than a distraction. Taxing food is immoral.
Because you are arguing over spilt milk and I'm arguing over the entire diary industry. I'm not sure if you're being intentionally dense or you just aren't getting it.
Ok, but how is obesity the direct product of meat consumption? Having steaks, a pot roast or baked chicken is the root of the evil?
Root of evil? No you're jumping into a discussion about unhealthy foods and obesity.
The thread is about the environmental impact of meat production, which is pretty high.
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Or perhaps its processed animal products fried in a vat of grease topped with processed cheese like substance with a side of potatoes fried in a vat a grease on a big ol' bun slathered in butter washed down with a liter of soda while we sit pecking on our devices or watching TV.
Or all the sodium and sugars added in the processing of our processed food we snatch at the drive thru window on our 2 hour commute to work. Or that extra greasy cheese pizza we pick up on the way to driving little Suzzie to her play date where they sit around inside playing video games because Lord forbid they go outside and play, they might get fall down and get hurt or kidnapped or shot.
Seems harder to mandate physical activity over a population so I'd rather just charge a little extra for unhealthy food. This would help with preventing obesity to some degree and making people more financially responsible for their health.
Good, it is meant to affect everyone. Those who eat more unhealthy will be affected the most.
We already tax prepared food, why not just tax salty, sugary, and fatty foods instead?
Obesity is immoral and is a seven deadly sin.
Murder is immoral also......maybe a little prison for you is the answer.
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