On: Study Finds Ultra-Processed Foods Drive Weight Gain

[EpicEng]

I doubt the GP is unaware of food regulations. Like pretty much everything else in life, what matters is degree and nuance. The government saying that e.g. milk must meet a minimum level of XYZ is not the same as the government telling us that we can no longer drink milk at all.

[kennywinker → EpicEng]

Regulations about preservatives and sugar added to bread would fall under the first category: minimum level of XYZ, not the second category: banning bread.

[jniedrauer → EpicEng]

We already regulate dangerous, addictive products like cigarettes. Why not regulate dangerous, addictive products like potato chips or soft drinks?

[nsxwolf → jniedrauer]

My body, my choice? Or is that only for some things?

[ieie92ndjrj → nsxwolf]

But that’s the point: your choices are food products that are allowed under regulations.

People are dragging out this paranoid fantasy where Uncle Sam is literally spoon feeding you.

When tacitly he’s enabling you to spoon feed yourself his choices.

People seem really convinced the next step is a government assigned personal health manager.

[chrisco255 → jniedrauer]

We don't really regulate the number of cigs that someone can smoke a day.

[ieie92ndjrj → EpicEng]

Trying to understand how they got onto the government forcing us to eat a specific set of foods from the original comment which to my read was about food regulations (the food supply chain being a byproduct of those).

I mean just cause you CAN view it from the perspective of concern that some G-man will show up every morning to check your pantry doesn’t mean one is on topic, or peddling reasonable discourse.

Yes, be on the lookout for government overreach. Sure. Immediately invoking paranoid nonsense and individualism (which ends being heavily constrained by social norms anyway) is just bizarre