You will not get my Thin Mints unless you pry them from my cold, dead hands! 

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"People only insist that a debate stop when they are afraid of what might be learned if it continues." - George Will 

"Toxic food environment." I don't know if this is the same bunch,
but that is the catchphrase used by the group that wants to regulate
fast food restaurants (for starters).

Never forget:
who controls the language controls the argument. This is just an
attempt to prepare the soil, so to speak, for the argument in favor of
regulation. After all, if it is "toxic," that certainly can' be
allowed. Not if we care about "the good of the children."

 Healthy foods, like produce, are not as accessible, and are more expensive.

What do they mean by not as accessible? I am sitting here eating my strawberry cheesecake yogurt trying to think of the stores that I frequent, Wal Mart, Food Lion and Harris Teeter, that don't have the produce section when you first enter the door. The comfort foods like cookies, chips, peanuts, etc. are in the middle of the stores. 

I don't think that 3 bucks for a big bag of Doritos is cheap. How about 6 bucks for a can of cashews? I understand that milk is not good for you. At nearly 6 bucks a gallon that is good. I wish these food Nazis would shut up. I am going to eat what I want to eat. That includes a lot of red meat and few vegetables.

If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.-Lewis Grizzard

Who ever thought that Girl Scout "cookies" were supposed to be "good for you".

They are just supposed to be good!

v

The Boy Scouts are bad because they won't let gay men be troop leaders.  The Girl Scouts are bad because they make you fat.

Well, I suppose it's time to revive the Soviet Young Pioneers in America!</sarc>

"We live in a very toxic food environment. We make it very easy for people to be unhealthy. Unhealthy foods, or junk foods, are accessible, cheap and engineered to taste very, very good. Healthy foods, like produce, are not as accessible, and are more expensive."

And, let's not forget to add that healthy foods tend to not taste as good as junk food.  She neglected to add that to her sentence above.

Darth Dutch

when I spend quite a bit of money on the cookies from the Girl Scouts. But, I consider them a treat and eat them as such. BTW, I bet I spent almost $150.00 this year since I sent so many boxes to the troops. I thought their "Troop to Troop" program was a great idea.

My son is an Eagle Scout and I still buy lots of popcorn also. I may not agree with all the policies of the GS's, but still support the basic mission.

"We live in a very toxic food environment. We make it very easy for people to be unhealthy."

Apparently we also make it easy for people to be stupid. If I hadn't seen a gal on O'Reilly dissing the cookies I wouldn't have believed this article. She said it was showing a bad example or somesuch, because the cookies are unhealthy or something, blah, blah blah (how controlling are you, lady?).

As with some of our daily diets, some food-police officers are way, way out of balance in their brains. The more they police eating and pick on certain foods; the more people will eat as they please. Like a dieter who denies herself day after day, one day the splurge will come despite all the self-nagging and angst that went before it.

DEVILDOCMOM: On the sending treats to the troops. I think that's very cool and kind.

A one way ticket to obesity? Doesn't anybody lose weight in this country? Heck, if the situation is extreme enough, a person can even have surgery to hasten weight loss.

And how many people buy Girl Scout cookies by the case and freeze them so they can spread them out over the year? GS cookies aren't health food, but most people's consumption of them is negligible over a year.

When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.

I do not know if it's a "one way ticket to obesity", but I do know what is a "one way ticket to midnight"...

(any of you watch South Park last week?)