While it may not be specific to doughnuts, it’s hard to imagine a doughnut shop (where doughnuts are actually prepared, not just sold) opening anywhere in the United States without multiple licenses associated with health and safety regulations. Then there’s the business licensing.

Obesity in the poor is partly a result of subsidies to less healthy food

Not to mention subsidies of the actual poor. Oh, I know it is unpopular to say out loud.

When did it become fashionable to show concern for the lower classes by refusing to acknowledge who they really are? How exactly does one advance social consciousness by obliterating the consciousness of what people in chronic poverty are really like?

BOB: Blacks and Hispanics consume drugs at a rate that is very slightly lower than that of whites, but they sell drugs at a massively disproportionate rate, utterly controlling the trade in every major American city.

When did it become fashionable to fight the drug war by pretending it doesn’t produce a black market disproportionately attractive to minorities? How exactly does one call attention to the horrors of a system that criminalizes the black and hispanic community if one cannot acknowledge that those communities really do produce far more than their share of criminals?

Anyone not knowing the genesis of that outfit needs to do their homework. Then they’ll understand how such garbage as Cohen’s idea sees the light of day in the first place.

And the same goes for their fat parents.

Some years go by. People are still fat.

See? This just shows we need MORE taxes and MORE regulation. The absolute and complete failure of the policy is proof that it will work, must work, if only we do it more!

Lipidleggin’, F. Paul Wilson, 1978. I want that guy’s crystal ball. :)

Wait. I know why. It’s because “The Poor” are “Those other people” that need to be controlled. Obviously, enlightened people won’t be effected by absurd, draconian regulations that won’t work, right? Only “The Poor” will be affected, and they will naturally respond by shaping up and flying right, right?

When asked the effectiveness of the control policies to fight obesity, Cohen said, “We have to start trying them and see if they work or not.”

Hey, go for it!

Then I’ll drive around town in a nondescript van selling french fries at a buck a fry out of the back.

So it has been noted for at least 37 years. 37 years, goddamn I’m getting old.

A lot of the obesity problem is, in fact, a PRODUCT of the same stupid laws. A few:
1. Agricultural subsidies that raise the relative cost of fresh fruit and veg
2. FDA rules against various raw, fermented and other foods.
3. Subsidies for sprawl and car use
4. Taxes and subsidies that drive medical care to treat people after they get to 400lbs and not before
5. The distorted role of sport in the educational system, which makes sport something done for glory at school, or profit thereafter, and not for fun. I don’t see many dads getting together for evening baseball or football unless their kids are involved.