Monday, May 08, 2006

Fuzzy Headed Actions and Proposals

Recently in an article posted on the web that I read about Eric Schlosser and Paul Hawkens' "Crusade against Fast Food giant McDonalds" . The two were quoted as saying":fast foods are bad for middle school students". And because of the Fast Food Industry advertising blitz on TV they are "attempting to control behavior of children." The implication being that the government needs to do something about this to control the growing obesity of Americas children. It is true we Americans are getting fatter each year. I personally can attest to the truth of this problem.
The problems I have with this approach are both constitutional based and fact based.
First, where do we stop with the taking away of freedom of speech. Are Liberals like Schlosser and Hawken happy to stop "Big Mac" and their competitors from producing adds that promote their product? Or will they go after the grocery store giants whose delicatessen sell most of the fried foods found in McNuggets and cheeseburgers? After all the sound and fury has settled down let me remind these "geniuses" that the most common childhood disease for children aged 1-6 is not obesity but dental caries! It also has a devastating effect of pain and suffering not to mention cost on teenagers, but thanks to fluoridation caries rates inteenagers has been reduced. Why don't you hear more advocates for policing what our children eat attacking the adds of cereal companies, and companies selling soft drink and fruit juices loaded with sugar? Sugar consumption by small children is the main dietary variable in dental caries destruction of childrens' teeth. This statistic is reported in "American Family Physician" and supported by the Academy of Family Physicians.Maybe I am getting ahead of myself. I may be predicting the future agenda for these "eggheads". But what has happened to the constitutional freedom to do what you want as long as it is lawful? Maybe they are thinking ahead to the Marxist/ Socialist country many of our so called "academia",and their "fellow travelers" have in their minds for the future of our Country?
My second surprise was the failure of CNNs Anderson Hays Cooper to be the succesful replacemwnt anchor of CNN in place of fired Aaron Brown. His ratings are much lower than Mr. Browns ever were. I have always jokingly referred to my family that CNN should be called the "Communist Sympathizer News Network". And now they hired a progeny of Gloria Vanderbilt who went to the University of Hanoi to study Vietnamese!
Are their no Universities in The U.S. or South Vietnam that teach the Vietnamese language? Or did he go there because he felt comfortable in the company of people whose countrymen killed 55,000 American soldiers? Maybe viewers think about it when they watched him on CNN!