Not satisfied with limiting Soda, Bloomberg goes after Popcorn, Milk-based Drinks

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http://www.myfoxny.com/story/18774940/health-panel-talks-about-wider-food-ban

The New York City Board of Health showed support for limiting sizes of sugary drinks at a Tuesday meeting in Queens. They agreed to start the process to formalize the large-drink ban by agreeing to start a six-week public comment period.

At the meeting, some of the members of board said they should be considering other limits on high-calorie foods.

One member, Bruce Vladeck, thinks limiting the sizes for movie theater popcorn should be considered.

"The popcorn isn't a whole lot better than the soda," Vladeck said.

Another board member thinks milk drinks should fall under the size limits.

"There are certainly milkshakes and milk-coffee beverages that have monstrous amounts of calories," said board member Dr. Joel Forman.

Mayor Bloomberg says the drink rules are an attempt to fight obesity in the city. It would limit food service establishments in the city from serving drinks bigger than 16 ounces but would allow refills.

The New York City Restaurant Association is fighting the proposal and is considering legal action of it goes into effect.



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I can't believe this crap happens in America.
 
I mean, soda I sort of get even though I don't agree with.

But what could the rationale be for limiting popcorn sizes? Are there people who go to the movies every single day who order large popcorn? Even though I order the largest popcorn every time I go to the movies, I don't go frequently enough for it to impact my overall health. Popcorn calories probably account for 0.5% of my yearly calorie intake. If you're gonna be a health nazi, aren't there more useful things to go after?

Soda at least sort of makes sense because a huge amount of people drink it every day and one of the most frequently purchased sizes is 20oz. Popcorn and milkshakes seem more like guilty treats rather than part of people's daily habit.
 
JorgeStevenson said:
But what could the rationale be for limiting popcorn sizes? Are there people who go to the movies every single day who order large popcorn? Even though I order the largest popcorn every time I go to the movies, I don't go frequently enough for it to impact my overall health. Popcorn calories probably account for 0.5% of my yearly calorie intake. If you're gonna be a health nazi, aren't there more useful things to go after?
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Not to mention most of the large popcorns are shared between an entire family. When I go, I buy the smallest and don't upsize, just because it hurts my belly if I eat too much, but when I go with my family we buy the largest and pass it around. The only thing this will accomplish is more people buying multiple bags (one for each family member) - higher profits for the theater...

"higher profits for the theater"... hmmm... makes me think... I wonder if there's some backroom theater lobbying going on... people spending more money buying multiple sodas, now multiple popcorns.. follow the money.
 
The sad thing is, they are attacking true Capitalism. The way a movie theater makes it's money is by the concession stand sales.


The bottom line is they care not a wit about your health, Bloomberg is a control-freak. If they did they would not have turned their backs on the 9/11 rescue workers.

I was born and raised in Brooklyn and it saddens me how such a once great place has gone to the dogs.
 
Family-size bags of Doritos and other chips are also too big. They should ban all large size items, or you should have to provide proof that you have at least a family of four you are taking the large containers home to. A national ID with your health and family members listed should help to verify.

Of course, people still have their freedoms, because they can always purchase multiple medium sized bags/drinks.

/s
 
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so if you watch a movie in new York, you have to get up like 3 or 4 times throughout the movie to get refills on your drinks?? Laaaame
 
I would be against this stupid soda regulation even if I believed it worked. But I don't even buy that.

Human beings don't just swallow up everything they get access to. There is a certain amount of calories you are going to burn any given day, based on hormonal activities, past activities, the temperature, the amount of stress you're experiencing and so on.

Now even if this ban could reduce the amount of coke you drink when you're watching a movie, you would just have a greater desire to eat something later that day. And ultimately you're going to indulge that desire anyway. And even if you could resist it for a while your body would go in starvation-panic-mode and want you to store fat.
 
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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.C. S. Lewis
 
JorgeStevenson said:
But what could the rationale be for limiting popcorn sizes? Are there people who go to the movies every single day who order large popcorn? Even though I order the largest popcorn every time I go to the movies, I don't go frequently enough for it to impact my overall health. Popcorn calories probably account for 0.5% of my yearly calorie intake. If you're gonna be a health nazi, aren't there more useful things to go after?

Soda at least sort of makes sense because a huge amount of people drink it every day and one of the most frequently purchased sizes is 20oz. Popcorn and milkshakes seem more like guilty treats rather than part of people's daily habit.
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The answer to your question is simple: POWER. At its root, this issue has absolutely NOTHING to do with "health" or "obesity" or any such thing. It is all about claiming and exercising POWER - nothing more, nothing less.

Grandiose power-mongers seek to control armies, nation-states & the course of history itself. More petty & prosaic power-mongers (like Bloomberg & Co., who don't have the chops to "run with the big dogs" - or don't have the opportunity to do so) seek to feed their desire for control by (among other tactics) concocting excuses that enable them to dismiss their critics as insufficiently "compassionate." ("What? You oppose regulation of soda/popcorn/whatever? Don't you care about peoples' health? You heartless bastard!")

This is a fig leaf that leaves them free to seek to indulge their lust for power without actually having to provide any legitimate rationale for it (which is very important to their purpose - since there IS no legitimate rationale for it). It is therefore pointless to try to discover the "rationale" for their proposals in hopes of understanding the logic by which they arrive at them. Their proposals are not based on logic - they are based on power-lust.

To put it crudely (but accurately): their alleged "concern" over things like "obesity" and "public health" is merely the lotion they use while masturbating their hard-on for bossing other people around.
 
Obviously libertarians think this is a terrible idea, but I even think that most people in America think this much overreach is bonkers. And when I say most, I mean cops too. And, at some point one of these business owners will get fed up and refuse to comply with these mandates, at which point the authorities will face a critical decision. Do I, as a cop, blindly follow the law and arrest this citizen for selling popcorn? Or, do I, as an individual, think that this law is so damn stupid and wrong-headed that I refuse to enforce it? Do I want to be an instrument of a tyrannical system that I disagree with while living in a so-called free country? Do I want to be the kind of cop who jails people for milkshakes? Will I act on my conscience or will I serve as just another mindless cog in the machine? Government can only enforce its will through force. So, will there come a day when someone in New York gets shot by a cop for refusing to drop their Slurpee?
 
Actually, we should just forgo all this banning and just ban everything.

The only thing people should be allowed to eat or drink is water, and freeze dried beans and tofu in pill form, plus Monsanto fruits and vegetables.

Everything else should be banned. Especially chocolate.

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