“I challenge you: Name for me a single government program which has accomplished its intended objectives, rather than the opposite… which has not done more harm than good.” ~Milton Friedman
Has anybody noticed kids are getting fat as fuck?… So why’s the Government retiring the Food Pyramid? Well… first of all, only the fucking government would create a pyramid just to use it as a triangle. It’s a perfect metaphor for everything they do. Secondly, that food triangle has been teaching kids for the last 20 years to basically eat the exact opposite of the Atkins Diet. Eat five servings of carbs for every one of protein?… Goddamnit.
So the Government taught kids to spend their childhood carbo-loading and sitting at a desk 8 hours a day (throw in some beer and a nap, and that’s literally how sumo wrestlers pack on the pounds). Right about now supporters of big government are screaming “Ridiculous! Sure the food pyramid was wrong, but kids are fat because they ignored it and ate fast food.” So the only reason the program wasn’t more harmful was… because it was so ineffective? Well, that sounds like the perfect rationale for doubling down and spending $2 million creating “MyPlate.”
Did the First Lady just bullshit you?… Yep. Nobody can possibly find that fucking $2 million embarrassment of a logo “useful.” Why?… Clearly it’s only useful for people having trouble grasping the fundamental concepts of the food/plate relationship (“Put my food on a plate, you say?… Preposterous!”); unfortunately whatever traumatic brain injury left them in such a state, also made them incapable of learning from diagrams… It’s a catch 22.
Now for the interactive portion of our program: A Time Trial. While introducing MyPlate Michelle Obama actually said “Parents don’t have the time to measure out exactly three ounces of chicken or to look up how much rice or broccoli is in a serving. That has confounded me as a parent for a very long time. I still don’t know how much protein comes in X number of ounces.”
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I like how they discuss obesity as a national security issue. Our job is to be fit an healthy “iron youth” so that we can fight wars for our politicians. Makes me to want to run for my life — to McDonald’s.