by Jeff Stier and Henry I. Miller Washington Examiner May 21, 2013
Obesity is a public health time bomb. But is curbing it primarily the responsibility of the government? The food police think so. Along the way, their extreme rhetoric demonizes industry and characterizes food marketers as little better than child molesters.
Weighing in from the Left are regulation-obsessed activists like Dr. Yoni Freedhoff of the University of Ottawa. He blames obesity on the failure of public health officials and lawmakers to "legislate change" -- not enough statutes, regulations, public monies spent, or taxes on foods that he thinks are bad.
He believes that because industry is good at doing its job -- which is to "misinform consumers" in their quest to profit from selling as many cheap calories as possible -- so, in his view, government needs to intervene…… And in recent years, federal officials have pushed organic and other inefficient practices that may make consumers feel good about the foods they buy but which in reality are not better for them or the environment.…
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