tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post5992053835610001247..comments2024-03-28T15:39:28.239-04:00Comments on Vital Remnants: In Defense of Taco Bell: An apologia for the burrito supremeMartin Cothranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16452612266051351726noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-10334357225915870192011-02-01T20:47:19.016-05:002011-02-01T20:47:19.016-05:00> The government is our servants.
And we need ...> The government is our servants.<br /><br />And we need to keep it that way.<br /><br />> The government has been regulating the food industry for generations. If you think unregulated food from corporations is so great, perhaps you should read "The Jungle".<br /><br />So now the government regulates food and nobody ever dies of food poisoning. Right?Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12974887002402743628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-62280614266613306432011-02-01T20:19:13.533-05:002011-02-01T20:19:13.533-05:00Lee,
The government is our servants. They do wha...Lee,<br /><br />The government is our servants. They do what our elected representatives tell them to do. Washington D.C. isn't London, and the President isn't George III.<br /><br />The government has been regulating the food industry for generations. If you think unregulated food from corporations is so great, perhaps you should read "The Jungle".KyCobbnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-32906480777516135722011-02-01T17:22:47.302-05:002011-02-01T17:22:47.302-05:00> Trans fats aren't exactly "food"...> Trans fats aren't exactly "food". Neither are soft drinks<br /><br />What difference does it make as long as people enjoy eating them? Are people free to eat as they like, or only free to eat as you like?<br /><br />> I don't think the freedoms the founding fathers had in mind included the right to ingest virtual poisons concocted by corporations to taste good then Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12974887002402743628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-44156276606674101962011-02-01T08:38:08.134-05:002011-02-01T08:38:08.134-05:00Martin,
Trans fats aren't exactly "food&...Martin,<br /><br />Trans fats aren't exactly "food". Neither are soft drinks. I don't think the freedoms the founding fathers had in mind included the right to ingest virtual poisons concocted by corporations to taste good then marketed to children so that they acquire a lifetime taste for it until they die of a heart attack or diabetes. The founding fathers had no way of KyCobbnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-173477713616338402011-02-01T08:34:37.440-05:002011-02-01T08:34:37.440-05:00Well listen up, 'cuz I've got news for the...<i>Well listen up, 'cuz I've got news for these Swedish car-driving namby-pambies: I will defend my right to a taco with my life. And if you touch my chalupa, you're goin' down. And my burrito supreme?<br /><br />You'll have to pry it from my cold dead hands.</i><br /><br />How 'bout that halal burrito supreme, Martin? You know it's coming.Arthttp://www.aghunt.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-29978218139783593082011-02-01T04:14:38.847-05:002011-02-01T04:14:38.847-05:00'Even a post on fast food is controversial!...'Even a post on fast food is controversial!'<br /><br />It may have something to to do with your use of language Martin. As a German, I bristle at anyone calling others 'Health Nazis'. Not only does it ridiculously demonize an amorphous mass of people you disagree with, it trivializes what Nazis were actually about. <br /><br />I wonder if you have ever been to Auschwitz or DachauSingringhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02180277470418724600noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-72977259303515635432011-01-31T23:45:02.090-05:002011-01-31T23:45:02.090-05:00That's what I love about the peanut gallery on...That's what I love about the peanut gallery on this blog. Even a post on fast food is controversial!<br /><br />What's interesting is that someone like KyCobb would, on the very same thread, give the very logic that is leading the regulators of our nanny government to make certain foods illegal and then turns around and asserts that anyone who thinks this logic will actually be carried Martin Cothranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16452612266051351726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-73525431399866410512011-01-31T18:15:54.429-05:002011-01-31T18:15:54.429-05:00'We don't elect judges. We don't elect...'We don't elect judges. We don't elect bureaucrats.'<br /><br />They are appointed by whom you elect to office. Its kind of embarassing when a European has to explain the cornerstones of arguably the greatest democratic system on earth to an American.<br /><br />'Once upon a time, it was believed that the government should have the power to stop you from harming your neighbor,Singringhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02180277470418724600noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-62440224124849409722011-01-31T17:56:54.665-05:002011-01-31T17:56:54.665-05:00Taco Bell apologetics doesn't look much better...Taco Bell apologetics doesn't look much better than Christian apologetics on this blog.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-5057446847696596922011-01-31T17:09:04.524-05:002011-01-31T17:09:04.524-05:00Well, KyCobb, does it still qualify as paranoia if...Well, KyCobb, does it still qualify as paranoia if they really are out to get us?<br /><br />Unfortunately, We the People don't get to elect most of the people in government who work inexorably, one step at a time, day by day, to make us less free. We don't elect judges. We don't elect bureaucrats. But that's really beside the point. There are things such as, e.g., Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12974887002402743628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-31602150787165453282011-01-31T15:37:28.989-05:002011-01-31T15:37:28.989-05:00'It's not about the food, it's about t...'It's not about the food, it's about the power. Once we assent to Big Brother telling us what we can or cannot eat, there is no logical stopping point:'<br /><br />Who is telling you what to eat?<br /><br />The suit against Taco Bell is NOT about banning anything! Its about preventing inaccurate advertisement, for crying out loud.<br /><br />This is emblematic of the level of Singringhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02180277470418724600noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-14440785772015977812011-01-31T15:23:01.895-05:002011-01-31T15:23:01.895-05:00Lee,
Thats just the kind of anti-government paran...Lee,<br /><br />Thats just the kind of anti-government paranoia the Right engages in. The power is in we the people. We elect the government, and if we don't like what they are doing, we can vote them out. This makes them very responsive to our anger. Corporations, on the other hand, don't care about us, only profit. If government is too weak to control them, there is literally KyCobbnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-86626931451246948582011-01-31T14:38:44.775-05:002011-01-31T14:38:44.775-05:00It's not about the food, it's about the po...It's not about the food, it's about the power. Once we assent to Big Brother telling us what we can or cannot eat, there is no logical stopping point: everything is political, and permission must always be gotten from our betters in Washington on everything we say and do.Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12974887002402743628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-26919336824118119542011-01-31T14:37:52.150-05:002011-01-31T14:37:52.150-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12974887002402743628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-71440787815864755502011-01-31T08:41:59.943-05:002011-01-31T08:41:59.943-05:00Martin,
I think you are overreacting a wee bit. ...Martin,<br /><br />I think you are overreacting a wee bit. Let the legal process work, and if you are right then Taco Bell will be vindicated.<br /><br />On your larger point, this nation is suffering an epidemic of obesity and related diseases due to our food choices and lack of exercise. We need to eat better and move more. That doesn't mean we have to become vegans, and its disingenuousKyCobbnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-76620551005318584532011-01-31T07:40:56.949-05:002011-01-31T07:40:56.949-05:00'If you had asked us "Where's the bee...'If you had asked us "Where's the beef?" we could, with a fairly high degree of plausibility, have pointed to the meet tray and said, "It's right there." So when I see people claiming that it's not beef, I'm thinking that that can't even be 34 percent true.<br /><br />Now I'm sure that there have been some changes, but the stuff I get now in a Singringhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02180277470418724600noreply@blogger.com