New York City Proposes Ban on Big Surary Drink

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Originally Posted by saden1

McDonald's food is unfit for human consumption therefore it is deserving of scrutiny. If the entire country is turning into a Wall-E world then the government has a duty to insure that it's people to insure that what is making them ill be taken off the shelf. I mean, not too long ago lead was in all sorts of product on the shelf. Lead doesn't kill instantly, it slowly poisons you to death and once that was realize it was banned. The government didn't simply say "don't buy lead product," it said "leaded product are no longer fit to be on the shelves."

Then you should be relieved that McDonald's products contain no lead. At least that's what I heard.

McD's is low quality food. So are snack bars. Both are still fit for human consumption, just not in large quantities. You want something that tastes like lead, that's really full of artificial stuff... keep eating artificial sweeteners, fake meat, and fake milk.

Originally Posted by saden1

We are the government. So long as you have the right to vote you get to decide what the government can or can't do.

There are plenty of food unfit for consumption, more so in this country than in many others. The egregious use of pink slim by the fast food industry in this country makes their food unfit for human consumption.

To McDonalds credit they have recently stopped using pink slime. Still, when you add the other crap they use in their food products along with what they feed the animals slaughter they can still be classifed as unfit for consumption. It's all empty calories.

Lol, if it was all empty calories, there'd be little problem with overeating it. Agreed about the soylent pink, but you're still reaching to call food you don't like "unfit for human consumption".

Wow, since I'm the government, next time I go to New York I can have all the big sugary drinks I want?

Again, you're confusing snack food (including fast food) with "unfit for consumption". You can overeat on anything. Know what's "unfit for human consumption"? Tofu. Rice cakes. Soybean milk. Fruit2O (I actually drink to cut back on sugar and caffeine, but guess which one is more "unfit" if you really want to split hairs. F2O is filler at best.).

And remember, a government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have. Do you really want to ban foods, including some you may like, or inform people to make their own choices?