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Tony Blair says junk food should be made too expensive for the poor to afford through new sugar and salt taxes to tackle obesity (vnexplorer.net)

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[+] [email protected] -12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The food in Britain is already ridiculously cheap. And yet people choose to eat shit instead.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm glad to see people like you who thinks that eating shit is a choice. It's cute.

Let me explain how it works for some who are not as privileged: when people are hungry, they buy cheap. It doesn't matter if some over privileged cunt think they are eating shit. It matters that something fills hungry, grumbly tummies. Especially for ones with kids. People really need to get off their fucking high horses and just let people eat. Jesus. It's not hard.

Yes it may not be the healthiest. But it sure beats outright starvation.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 years ago

I agree with your sentiment, but how can people be starving if obesity is an epidemic?

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 years ago

In a country with national healthcare, do you not think people have a degree of responsibility to manage their own health to avoid being a burden on the system? Freedom to eat what you like and get obese may work in the US when you or your insurance company has to pay for treatment later in life, but here it's society that has to pony up because you choose a Maccy ds over ten minutes at the stove.