Now, the liberals move to control your diet....

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  1. spiritgide

    spiritgide Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    It's true
    In a unanimous vote Tuesday night, the city council of Berkley California passed what they call the "healthy checkout" ordinance. They're not saying you can't eat what they decide to call junk food, not even saying you can't buy it.... provided you find a way to buy it without getting within 3 feet of a checkout counter. That's right- in typically crazy California liberal fashion, they have created a kind of trick law that doesn't prevent your eating or buying junk food- but prevents you from actually paying for it, which effectively prevents your buying it, which effectively prevents you eating it. It's a way to control you without directly violating your rights.

    That sounds like fake news, but it's not Crap like this would be hard to make up, if you were a rational, logical person. California doesn't seem to have many of those, certainly not in it's politics. So- Yes, It's true. Berkley's city council has stolen it's citizens right to select their own food... done for their own good, of course. So thoughtful of them. Probably see laws like that coming out of congress, if Biden and crowd gets in.

    Makes you wonder what they will choose to take from their people next. Not a question of if; just what and who and how.....

    You have to ask yourself why anyone would trust people who can do that to those who put them in office.

    https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/berkeley-ca-first-in-u-s-to-ban-junk-food-in-checkout-lanes
     
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    “The council’s decision to move unhealthy items away from the register hinges on the duplicitous ways the food environment affects consumer choices. The city of Berkeley’s press release on the new policy cited a national study, which found that 91% of supermarkets display candy at checkout, along with 85% that sell soda and other sugary drinks by the checkout area.
    Rather than remove unhealthy items entirely, they will be displaced from where customers are more likely to make impulsive purchasing selections.”


    In other words, customers can still buy junk food. It’s just that, said junk food, won’t be shelved at the registers like it is now at pretty much every supermarket. The claim made about not being able to buy junk food is fake news. By the way, the above italicized and bolded is from the link provided in the OP
     
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    Exactly!

    I admit to being tempted and falling for the temptation from time to time. If they replaced it with healthy snacks it could be a nice gentle push to nudge you in the right direction. How anyone could conceive of this as "liberals trying to control your diet" is beyond me, but that is the crazy effed up world we live in now.
     
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    Exactly. No one is trying to control ones diet because junk food is still available to buy.
     
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    spiritgide Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    How?
    Liberals dominate Berkley government. They made the law.
    The food they take away by this back-door trick is identified by ingredients, and includes limits of salt, sugars- meaning it hits soft drinks, candy bars, chips, all the things we snack on.
    How can that not be seen as attempting to control people's diet?

    I guess they could have achieved birth control by requiring a 3 foot no contact area too. Probably do that next.
    I find the variety of California laws amusing- such as-

    The one that says animals are banned from mating publicly within 1500 feet of a tavern, school, or place of worship. Big fine for that.
    That you need a $100 license to keep a pet rhinoceros.
    You can't wear cowboy boots unless you own at least two cows.
    It's illegal to set a mousetrap without a hunting license.
    Elephants may not stroll down the streets of San Francisco unless on a leash.
    It's illegal to walk a camel down Palm Canyon drive between the hours of 4 and 6 PM.

    This is the state that ordered it's dairy farmers to bag cow farts...... or be fined. These folks are way ahead of the curve....
     
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    Is this supposed to be unusual in Berkeley? I would think this type of law is the norm.
     
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    Yes, but the state is also promoting good health. Californians do this all the time. There are warnings about second-hand smoke in smoking areas, on the outside of buildings (this was in Sacramento).

    This won't stop me from buying chips when visiting, and I never lose sleep over weird California laws.

     
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    You sound angry. Why?
     
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    The article says the law just limits the distance for candy bar displays that are commonly found by checkout registers.
    That’s all the law does.
    You can have different feelings about it, just make sure you understand what you are upset about.
     
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    The likely result of this is that checkout lanes won't have food at all. They will just have magazines.

    You serious? Have you been to a checkout lane? Those candy bars and chips are junk food. Its absolutely undeniable. They are objectively 100% junk good. End of debate.

    These stores will likely just move these items to the aisles with the rest of the food. Even now there is usually a really heft chip and candy isle you can still get your snickers and Doritos at. But if you are so obese, you can't walk to these isles, then I guess you are on a forced diet. So sad.

    I'm fine with them moving the junk food form the checkout. Just like cigarettes and alcohol, they are very addicting, very harmful, and cost our healthcare, taxpayers, and insurance premiums a fortune. I think we should be taxing and regulating junk good like we do cigarettes and alcohol.

    Stores move these items to the checkout because at checkout, that is when your self control is weakest after seeing all the food in the store. It can be difficult for some to be waiting in line, hungry, and seeing this junk food inches from their faces. And it works really well especially for obese people with a problem as an amazing psychology trick to get people to act against their best interest. Companies are getting better and better at hacking the weaknesses of human psychology. They literally process these fake foods with the right ingredients that the human brain is programmed to find it extremely difficult to resist. And it earns them hundreds of billions every year, and also screws up people's bodies big times.
     
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    time to put the Republicans Nixon diet to bed, high carbs and low fat is not healthy

    this diet was for the benefit of corporations, not your health

    just say no to the republican's food pyramid scheme
     
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    "provided you find a way to buy it without getting within 3 feet of a checkout counter."

    that means they can not put candy in the checkout lane for the kids to be enticed is my guess, not that you can't buy it without being 3 feet away

    sugar is addictive and half fructose, and the fructose in sugar is processed by the liver the same as alcohol, thus the cause of nonalcoholic liver disease
     
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    You're right, such nasty freedom-curbing guidelines. They should be allowed to pop cigarettes, alcohol and natural cocaine extract up the front - that's where the real money is.
     
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    California, the reason a bag of wood chips for my smoker in Fl has a proposition 65 warning on it, yes a bag of wood chips. They need to keep their fruits and nuts in their own damn state.
     
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    All it does is ban the candy racks from the checkout lane.
     
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    Baby steps, pay attention over the next few years.
     
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    Pay attention that this member's posts are unreliable AF.
     
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    I am fine with them moving all that crap away from the registers, though I suspect they will just replace it with something else.
     
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    Your OPINION is noted.
     
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    How is it my opinion?

    The OP asserts that

    totally false.

    Not a matter of my opinion.
     
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    Well if you are comfortable with baby step number one then you will be OK with all the baby steps until you can't go into the store and get what you want. That Berkley can tell a grocery store how it displays it's merchandise and it doesn't concern you is telling, the state government is your nanny. And you are A OK with it.
     
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    They don't call it the land of fruits and nuts for nothing.

    The "big one" will be God's way of getting even.
     
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    But as long as I've been alive, candy has been alongside the register way back in the 1960s. It's not snacks that make people fat.
     
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    So basically the OP is an epic fail as the assertion that junk food can’t be bought at supermarkets is a lie fake news.
     
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    I didn't say I was ok with it. It's stupid Af.
     

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