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   From: Art@Arthurian.com   
      
   Nah! It's better to see an obese America!   
   Fatter is better!   
      
   "Mister Superstar"  wrote in message   
   news:0ehBi.270$7P7.72@newssvr19.news.prodigy.net...   
   > 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.   
      
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