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Re: Junk Food Nation

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From: Dennis
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 21:40
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Where is the indignation about giving billions to the oil companies? 
Search on your name and tax breaks oil - didnt get a single hit. Watch 
your pennys why the dollars fly by.

Think the pyramids are crap. But government should fund research. The 
problem is in dumbing down the results to something "useful".

Dennis

Tim May wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> It's _never_ the function of government to take any position whatsoever
> on what people choose to eat.
> 
> Those who wish to fund the development of "food pyramids" are welcome
> to fund such efforts, read the books of these kind of people, etc. And
> those who prefer to eat certain kinds of foods are free to do so.
> 
> But government has no business, no constitutional right (in the U.S.),
> to use tax monies to fund food advocacy of any sort.
> 
> This means government is misusing our taxes any time it develops
> recommended menus, food pyramids, food hexagrams, whatever.
> 
> Though they like pork, they should "pork butt out."
> 
> (And, yes, I think those who willingly use our tax money for
> non-legitimate purposes should be marched into rendering tanks. There
> are four to five times more people worthy of extermination than were in
> Europe 70 years ago. Washington needs to be exterminated, along with
> several other major nests of thieves.)
> 
> 
> --Tim May
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