This is highly debatable and, in my personal opinion, very inaccurate. I refer you to The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker for more, in which he says that parents are responsible for only 10-20% of their children’s adult behavior (separating genetics, which account for around 50%).
Not to “post and run”, but I’m not particularly interested in debating the point; rather, I just thought I should point it out.
Given the choice between authoritarian government intervention, and overly-fat americans who will die young and their children who will die younger, I’ll go the environmentalist route.
nature self-corrects, and these fat kids will die young. Those that grow some testes will escape their fate. I feel sad for the little fatties, but those that want more will do what they can to avoid the mass dying that their contempories will suffer.
And I know that actually saying that there are morbidly obese fat-ass dying-soon children who nobody seems to give a shit about, is like talking about global warming 15 years ago. Tit-fed obese monster babies are the norm now, whilst 20 years ago they were the ones everyone made fun of.
The Queensland State Government has gone the route of authoritarian government intervention, effectivley banning all “unhealthy” foods froms choolc anteens from 2007, as well as severely curtailing school’s ability to fundraise via things such as fetes, suausage sizzles, even banning birthday cake for kids in class. They tried to go so far as to ban snack and soft drink vending in staffrooms.
The penalty for breaking their rules is that the school will lose all it’s fundraising privilages.
All this in the name of reducing obese kids. Of course, the kids are spending all their canteen money at the shop over the road buying doughnuts and lollies and the schools are missing out on the income anyway.
They have done nothing to increase funding for sports equipment and exercise programs, nor on diet awareness programs in schools. Idiots.
Beware! The Sugar Nazis are after your children…
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