Junk food should be illegal. Drugs are. Driving too fast is. Alcohol is limited to use by adults. People still break these laws, but if they get caught, they’re in trouble. The government tells us when certain things are too dangerous and the government prohibits us from doing them, or it at least places limits on dangerous activities. The government doesn’t always get it right (marijuana), but it tries.
In fact, the sole justification for taxes, the constitutional basis for taxes, the provision that imbues the government with the right to take our money is that provision that gives the government the right to tax and spend for the general welfare. The Constitutional text is this:
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defense and general Welfare of the United States...
It is believed, to the very core of our national heartbeat, that a government may tax and spend to protect the public. Providing for the common defense is part of providing for the general welfare. If it is taxing but not using those funds to protect the public, then it is overstepping its rights and treading unfairly on the rights of the people. This clause by its nature requires government to work for the people and prevents the government or any of its officials, from using taxes to consolidate wealth and power; from becoming dictators and taking taxpayer money for their own personal bacchanalia.
But that’s just what it is doing. The government has not only failed to outlaw the highly toxic, disease-causing junk foods that most families now eat on a frequent and regular basis, it subsidizes their very existence! It has helped consolidate power in the junk food industry—from the chemical-GMO drug pushers like Monsanto to the huge factory farming behemoths like Purdue, to junk food processors like Kraft and worldwide distributors and price fixers like ADM.
The junk food system starts by destroying the health of farmers, the soil, rivers and ecosystems by pumping massive amounts of poisons into these systems. It then goes on to produce outrageously wasteful and toxic single use packaging for the purpose of then selling disease causing “foods” to the American public.
Junk food is the next Tobacco—but bigger. These companies are knowingly peddling products for human consumption that have been clearly and overwhelmingly proven to cause obesity, heart disease, diabetes, early onset type 2 diabetes, ADD, ADHD, migraines, indigestion, cancer, asthma, addiction, malnutrition and many more deadly diseases. They sell these products using cute cartoons just like Tobacco did. They bombard the public space with advertisements claiming their products are healthy and part of a healthy lifestyle just like Tobacco did.
If junk food is not made illegal, it should at least come with HUGE warning signs just like Tobacco does.
I propose we delve deeper into these issue and to look more closely at how a lawsuit of this magnitude would work. What the various causes of action are, who would be named defendants and for what. The time is right and the science is in. Americans are getting sicker every year and that’s not fair because they are being lied to by their “food” companies and by their government. It's not a matter of personal choice as the junk food purveyors would have you believe. It's a matter of deception. Massive, deadly deception. Before another decade goes by of this kind of mass poisoning, it’s time to look at our options and stop this madness.
All of those Farm Bill subsidies that go to big chemical farmers are making it unacceptably difficult for small, organic, community-based farmers and other agriculturalists to make it. Luckily, these types of farmers, ranchers, school programs and backyard agrarians have received growing support from people in need of good food. The movement is slowly gaining steam. Certain segments of people are taking back their health, supporting local sustainable agriculture from backyard gardens to larger-scale operations. They are rejuvenating pollinator populations, increasing soil health, protecting water resources, and reducing the diseases discussed above. But it is happening far too slowly. The money must move differently.
That’s why the question: How can the law be used, legislatively and through litigation, on local, state and national levels, to change our food system? Today’s youth are on a collision course with a lifetime of suffering from a death-focused food system. Their fate is like no other generation’s before them. Now we decide, is it sealed, or can we still save them? Can the law still save them? All the well-meaning health food eaters in the country can’t do it alone. The food law of this country must be on the side of the people.
image credit: Junk Food For Life
In fact, the sole justification for taxes, the constitutional basis for taxes, the provision that imbues the government with the right to take our money is that provision that gives the government the right to tax and spend for the general welfare. The Constitutional text is this:
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defense and general Welfare of the United States...
It is believed, to the very core of our national heartbeat, that a government may tax and spend to protect the public. Providing for the common defense is part of providing for the general welfare. If it is taxing but not using those funds to protect the public, then it is overstepping its rights and treading unfairly on the rights of the people. This clause by its nature requires government to work for the people and prevents the government or any of its officials, from using taxes to consolidate wealth and power; from becoming dictators and taking taxpayer money for their own personal bacchanalia.
But that’s just what it is doing. The government has not only failed to outlaw the highly toxic, disease-causing junk foods that most families now eat on a frequent and regular basis, it subsidizes their very existence! It has helped consolidate power in the junk food industry—from the chemical-GMO drug pushers like Monsanto to the huge factory farming behemoths like Purdue, to junk food processors like Kraft and worldwide distributors and price fixers like ADM.
The junk food system starts by destroying the health of farmers, the soil, rivers and ecosystems by pumping massive amounts of poisons into these systems. It then goes on to produce outrageously wasteful and toxic single use packaging for the purpose of then selling disease causing “foods” to the American public.
Junk food is the next Tobacco—but bigger. These companies are knowingly peddling products for human consumption that have been clearly and overwhelmingly proven to cause obesity, heart disease, diabetes, early onset type 2 diabetes, ADD, ADHD, migraines, indigestion, cancer, asthma, addiction, malnutrition and many more deadly diseases. They sell these products using cute cartoons just like Tobacco did. They bombard the public space with advertisements claiming their products are healthy and part of a healthy lifestyle just like Tobacco did.
If junk food is not made illegal, it should at least come with HUGE warning signs just like Tobacco does.
I propose we delve deeper into these issue and to look more closely at how a lawsuit of this magnitude would work. What the various causes of action are, who would be named defendants and for what. The time is right and the science is in. Americans are getting sicker every year and that’s not fair because they are being lied to by their “food” companies and by their government. It's not a matter of personal choice as the junk food purveyors would have you believe. It's a matter of deception. Massive, deadly deception. Before another decade goes by of this kind of mass poisoning, it’s time to look at our options and stop this madness.
All of those Farm Bill subsidies that go to big chemical farmers are making it unacceptably difficult for small, organic, community-based farmers and other agriculturalists to make it. Luckily, these types of farmers, ranchers, school programs and backyard agrarians have received growing support from people in need of good food. The movement is slowly gaining steam. Certain segments of people are taking back their health, supporting local sustainable agriculture from backyard gardens to larger-scale operations. They are rejuvenating pollinator populations, increasing soil health, protecting water resources, and reducing the diseases discussed above. But it is happening far too slowly. The money must move differently.
That’s why the question: How can the law be used, legislatively and through litigation, on local, state and national levels, to change our food system? Today’s youth are on a collision course with a lifetime of suffering from a death-focused food system. Their fate is like no other generation’s before them. Now we decide, is it sealed, or can we still save them? Can the law still save them? All the well-meaning health food eaters in the country can’t do it alone. The food law of this country must be on the side of the people.
image credit: Junk Food For Life
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