21. Should the government have a say in our diets?

21. Should the government have a say in our diets?

The answer is simple, yes of course it should. But as it said the devil hide in the details. It is simple to constitute that our government should participate in the health of their citizens. But how?

Let's muse about this a little. If government one day had decided to take care in the health of the people the next step would be to ask the scientist about this. What kind of diet should it promote.

I need to admit that around us a lot of freaks and nuts. There is a lot of normal people who don't care what they eat, care of course but they don't spend too much time in the quantity of calories, fat or carbonates it their food. They just want the food to be tasty and delicious. They usually resolve the question what to buy only from the weight of their income.

Some of the people like very grease and fat diet. They eat fried pork and junk food, they suffer from the obesity and probably predisposed to the cardiovascular diseases. But try to take off their fatty pork or forbid them to enjoy their hot-dogs and may be they begin to smoke or drink too much alcohol instead.

There is only one group of people who will be glad that control - there are different vegan nuts and vegetarian freaks.

So government of the small country had decided that their citizen eats unhealthy and begin campaign to control diet of their citizen. Then first law should be to forbid the growth of the pig, because people eat too much pork and clogged their veins and died from the heart attacks and strokes. Next day main streets and squares were full of the indignant farmer who through their pigs under the feet of the PM, member of cabinets and deputies of parliament. Next day under the pressure of the farmer government decided not to forbid but to impose taxes on the growth of pigs meat, and price for the pig increases enormously. Next day the main square of the country was flooded with indignant pensioners and  low bracket category of population. They cry we are hungry, give us cheap food. Because that price on pork increases, that's why mob rush to buy the meat of paltry and especially beef so the price for beef increase three times and the price for chicken and turkey just doubled. Next day the strong party organized from the people who like to drink something stronger then beer and they do need to eat something more ground than apple. The leader of the party became very popular and under the fear to fail nearest election and under the pressure of the strong parliament lobby who suffer from the high price for the meat PM  make statement that he personally decide to abolish that shameful and disgraceful decision of the Health minister and on the same speech he gracefully fired unhappy minister and his assistants.


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