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Wednesday, September 4. 2013

Food nudges


Should libertarian paternalists in government nudge you to make "better" food choices?


Can't these people find anything better to do? But it's not only that; every ten years the expert definition of a "good diet" changes. Nobody knows what a good diet is. That's probably because we are designed as omnivores and to eat whatever is available that we can choke down.

Posted by The Barrister in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 15:23 | Comments (6) | Trackbacks (0)

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Everything is pie in the sky to these people. Women work 8 to 10 hours a day and then commute for another hour at each end, then shop multiple times a week for fresh goodies at the local "green" market and then spend two hours each evening preparing a wonderful, "green", nourishing, approved, expensive meal. Yeah, right. No clue.

That's what Hollywood does (except that they have private chefs!). They sit around for months between million dollar gigs, hanging out with their personal trainer and having their private chef cook them a wonderful, "green", nourishing, approved, expensive meal. Then they go on Oprah or The View or some crazy place and tell everyone else how they should be living. Good grief!

And don't even mention Mrs. Obama, the prima donna of privilege. She hasn't prepared a meal in ... I have no idea. Maybe she pours cereal in the morning before the little Obamas go to school? Probably not!
#1 Larry Geiger on 2013-09-04 17:42 (Reply)
Mrs. Obama, the prima donna of privilege, has been seen with her two kids (opps, I don't mean to be racist by calling the two black, oh, excuse me, "African-American" children kids as in goats, I didn't mean to call them animal names) chowing down at Micket Dee's; but, don't let the Secret Service catch you - they will take away your camera and question you for hours.
#1.1 Charles on 2013-09-05 21:54 (Reply)
Can't these people find anything better to do?

Yes. But that would be in the private sector where their talents would be wasted on mundane activities like nudging people to buy, say, Acme Brand peanut butter over Ajax Brand. They know themselves to be better employed furthering the Public Interest, which they know themselves capable of identifying.

But it's not only that; every ten years the expert definition of a "good diet" changes.

Don't expect them to be embarrassed, or the least bit circumspect. Failure can't be their fault. The scientists, the politicians, the public - it's their fault.
#2 T.K. Tortch on 2013-09-04 17:55 (Reply)
Yes, first peanut butter isn't good for you then it is. Coffee isn't good for you then it is. Butter isn't good, then is. Bacon isn't then..................wait a minute.......bacon is always good for you!

When I was younger I used to be at least somewhat taken in by these "experts". I've gotten old enough to see it's a ploy to keep you paying attention to them or at least to the news reports about these things. Have you ever heard a journalist, who is reporting the latest "dangerous" food, question the report?
#3 Verde on 2013-09-04 21:07 (Reply)
How would David Brooks like it if someday a very conservative, perhaps even right-wing, government "nudged" him to write things the way they wanted them written, leaving him with but two choices: either to follow suit or not write. If he didn't get the message, why the government could conduct further "tests" to make adjustments until poor David got their message. Arrogant jerk. People like him always think THEY will be the ones to decide things for the unwashed rest of society.
#4 Agent Cooper on 2013-09-04 23:16 (Reply)
Kill them all, then eat them. Long lefty pig. With BBQ sauce.

I'll bet they'd taste like piss and vinegar. Make a gamy buck smell good. Pfah.
#5 Fred Z on 2013-09-04 23:30 (Reply)

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