Showing posts with label Dietary Guidelines First Lady Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act Obesity Child Nutrition Act Food and Nutrition Act National School Lunch Act. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dietary Guidelines First Lady Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act Obesity Child Nutrition Act Food and Nutrition Act National School Lunch Act. Show all posts

Sunday, February 20, 2011

Laurence M. Vance: The Ultimate in nanny-state paternalism

  Aside from the air we breathe, nothing is more important than the food and drink we consume. Not healthcare, not employment, not housing — nothing. Obviously, the best healthcare, the highest-paying job, and the biggest mansion in the world can’t do anything for you if you don’t eat. For someone to dictate to someone else the food and drink he should and shouldn’t consume is the ultimate in paternalism; for the state to tell someone the food and drink he should and shouldn’t consume is the ultimate in nanny-state paternalism.