Get a load of this quote from Huffington Post blogger Stanton Peele, who finds such efforts as Let's Move and FoodCorps to be "grossly insufficient":
"Too bad government is no longer allowed to play a larger role in encouraging and regulating healthy eating.
"We -- and the black and Latino communities -- will just have to live with the consequences -- more and more lifestyle-related diseases and preventable death and suffering.
"That's just life in these United States."
Yes, Mr. Peele, in these United States, we still have some grasp of personal responsibility and think that putting some limits on government power is a good way to avoid tyranny--although we are losing those principles quickly. Peele, an addiction expert, implies in his article that people in certain urban communities are addicted to bad foods, and therefore Big Government solutions must be used to pry entire communities away from their addictions. I think it's too bad that some people really think that certain populations cannot be expected to make better lifestyle choices without government 'help'; it reminds me of that line about "the soft bigotry of low expectations" our previous President once used in a speech (miss him yet?).
Also, it makes me wonder if less-than-well-off, obese whites will get any of the government's wonderful encouragement and regulation in Peele's ideal world scenario. I hope to never find out.
(Emphasis mine)
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