The Food Posse Is Saddled Up
Arizona is finding that fighting childhood obesity isn’t as simple as banning high-calorie and high-fat snacks in schools. As with any government mandate, the real trouble starts with the regulations that define what is acceptable and what is not. And those definitions are, as usual, the subject of political lobbying by various interest groups.
If you like your public education officials spending their time discussing the relative merits of beef jerky, oatmeal raisin cookies and Gatorade, you’re in seventh heaven in Arizona.
Meanwhile, the mayor of Shaker Heights, Ohio, declared March “National Caffeine Awareness Month.” Mayor Judith Rawson joins a growing list of politicians lobbied by the Caffeine Awareness Alliance to come down on caffeine. The group reportedly suggests drinking a soybean-based coffee substitute instead of your morning cup o’ joe.
With today’s information technology, armies of bloggers, and more than a few conspiracy theorists out there, why hasn’t anyone glommed onto the great soybean conspiracy? Who is behind this master scheme to replace all our food choices with beans?
Maybe ol’ Chuck had it right way back in 1973…
