Now the liberals want to tell us what to eat!

Wrong! Arnold is parading as a Republican but many of the decisions and laws he has been approving are straight from the liberal camp! I live in California and Arnold is not acting like a conservative Republican at all! And, I don't care how bad something is! The government doesn't have the right to tell us how and what to eat! It's none of their business! Our Constitution was set up to protect us from the government running our lives! This is the exact reason our forefathers came from England and broke away from its hold and why the Revolutionary War was fought to give the citizens the right to control their own lives and not have the government dictate our lives to us. You must be very young and naive to think this way! And, you obviously didn't read all that I wrote. I agree that eating healthy is a better choice but it should still be our choice as to what we eat not the government's. This type of law is a socialistic law and we've already seen that socialism doesn't work! That's why the USSR failed because socialism doesn't work! I like the United States the way it was created to be - government by the people and for the people not for the liberal control freaks!

So how come the government-run FDA allows trans-fats when they are so dangerous?

Hi whimsy...just had to butt in here a bit..LOL To quote you..The government doesn't have the right to tell us how and what to eat! It's none of their business.. Can't help thinking with that logic, then it would stand to reason that the government doesn't have the right to tell us about food recalls when foods have salmonella, or e. coli contamination. Would you rather people got deathly sick then? There are also a lot of incidences where the govt and FDA has sat on their tushies and done nothing about other food substances that are known to be dangerous...such as brominated vegetable oil that is found in such drinks as Gatorade and Mountain Dew..over 100 countries have banned this substance...so how come we haven't...I did a whole article about this very thing..

I agree that there is a problem with obesity and unhealthy eating in this country but people need to take responsibility for their own lives and parents need to discipline their children and feed them properly. A lot of the problem is that people have become entirely too dependent on the government to tell them what to do and help them when they have problems. One of the biggest mistakes our government and leaders made was to allow welfare to become an ongoing thing. It was not created to be that. I know that the people who instilled welfare and those who have continued to come up with various government help plans mean well but these programs have actually hurt the people they were intended to help. Most of the people who are on welfare and programs like this have been robbed of their will to provide for themselves and become something more than a government project or charity case. I'm not saying everyone who has been on welfare has succumbed to that mindset. I was on welfare for four months 12 years ago but I had to make a decision to risk whatever I had to in order to get off welfare and not get trapped in the system. I had an advantage because I grew up with opportunities and I had dreams I refused to let die. I've had to work hard not to let circumstances overwhelm me or drive me to quit. Most people on welfare have been in low income situations most of their lives and that type of mindset is very hard to overcome. Having the government now tell us what we can eat takes away one more thing that empowers people to take responsibility for themselves. It is a scary place to take this country. A dangerous place.

pyewacket, read my reply to the post just below yours in this discussion and I think you'll see my point.