Food-Nazi wants to tax vegetable fat...

This current issue of Scientific American is devoted to the problems
of world hunger and obesity. The articles were very informative,
with a detailed analysis of why the modern human diet makes us fat,
and also why so many people suffer from starvation as well as
malnutrition despite being overweight.

Anyway, one article discussed the crackpot idea that many nutritional
experts have, of taxing fatty food in an attempt to discourage the
ignorant and impoverished proles from stuffing their faces with
macaroni and cheese, pizza, and potato chips. Naturally, the tax
revenues would be used to pay nutritional researchers to do more
research, and also to subsidize healthy foods like carrot juice and
tofu chips that are approved for proletariat consumption.

One scientist was working with authoritarian governments like China
and Mexico to implement an experimental fat tax. I'm not quite sure
whether to describe her as a Food Nazi or a Food Marxist; the social
engineering angle has Marxist overtones, but her methodology creates
a privileged wealthy elite who can afford to stuff their faces with
heavily-taxed macaroni and cheese and pizza. I'm sure she will be
fair and set the tax at a reasonable level of affordability for
nutritional researchers who earn $250,000 or more per year.

Nah! It's better to see an obese America!
Fatter is better!

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> This current issue of Scientific American is devoted to the problems
> of world hunger and obesity. The articles were very informative,
> with a detailed analysis of why the modern human diet makes us fat,
> and also why so many people suffer from starvation as well as
> malnutrition despite being overweight.
>
> Anyway, one article discussed the crackpot idea that many
> nutritional
> experts have, of taxing fatty food in an attempt to discourage the
> ignorant and impoverished proles from stuffing their faces with
> macaroni and cheese, pizza, and potato chips. Naturally, the tax
> revenues would be used to pay nutritional researchers to do more
> research, and also to subsidize healthy foods like carrot juice and
> tofu chips that are approved for proletariat consumption.
>
> One scientist was working with authoritarian governments like China
> and Mexico to implement an experimental fat tax. I'm not quite sure
> whether to describe her as a Food Nazi or a Food Marxist; the social
> engineering angle has Marxist overtones, but her methodology creates
> a privileged wealthy elite who can afford to stuff their faces with
> heavily-taxed macaroni and cheese and pizza. I'm sure she will be
> fair and set the tax at a reasonable level of affordability for
> nutritional researchers who earn $250,000 or more per year.