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   From: superstar@deadcelebrity.org   
      
   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.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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