Maia Gabrial
20th April 2012, 13:45
I thought this was worth sharing....
This came in "The Daily Dose" by Dr. William Campbell Douglass....
Freedom Friday: NY bans 'unhealthy' food for homeless
The Nanny State would rather see people STARVE than eat food that doesn't meet Big Mother's approval -- and that's not even an exaggeration.
Just look at New York City, where Nanny Mayor Mike Bloomberg has BANNED all prepared food donations from the city's homeless shelters.
You'd think ANY food would be better than none at all, but the mayor doesn't see it that way -- and it's not because the homeless don't want or need these donated meals.
These are virtually untouched trays of leftover food from some of the city's elite events and social functions -- and you can bet your belly the homeless would love a taste.
But now, they won't even get to sniff this stuff unless they raid the trash afterwards -- because it's all going straight into the garbage instead of to the shelters.
That's because Mayor Nanny says he wants complete control over the nutritional content of each dish served in a city shelter -- including limits on salt, fat, calories, and even PORTION SIZE.
I can't help but think of poor Oliver Twist here. "Please, sir, I want some more."
Of course, Bloomberg isn't just keen on controlling what the homeless eat. As I've told you over the years, he's been trying to control what EVERYONE in "his" city eats.
This is a man who has spent much of his time in office declaring nonsensical wars on various food ingredients. He's fought to ban trans fats (even the healthy, natural ones), limit salt, and even pushed for a "sin tax" on soda.
But this latest move is just way too much, because we're not even talking about trying to limit choice. We're talking about people who already have no choice -- people so down and out they have no choice but to eat in a city shelter.
Many of them are starving.
I don't know what's on the menu in those shelters, but my guess based on the headlines is that it's Nanny State gruel -- and that anyone who eats it will continue to starve.
IMO Bloomberg has such a "Hitler complex".... Someone forgot to tell him that NY was not a concentration camp....
This came in "The Daily Dose" by Dr. William Campbell Douglass....
Freedom Friday: NY bans 'unhealthy' food for homeless
The Nanny State would rather see people STARVE than eat food that doesn't meet Big Mother's approval -- and that's not even an exaggeration.
Just look at New York City, where Nanny Mayor Mike Bloomberg has BANNED all prepared food donations from the city's homeless shelters.
You'd think ANY food would be better than none at all, but the mayor doesn't see it that way -- and it's not because the homeless don't want or need these donated meals.
These are virtually untouched trays of leftover food from some of the city's elite events and social functions -- and you can bet your belly the homeless would love a taste.
But now, they won't even get to sniff this stuff unless they raid the trash afterwards -- because it's all going straight into the garbage instead of to the shelters.
That's because Mayor Nanny says he wants complete control over the nutritional content of each dish served in a city shelter -- including limits on salt, fat, calories, and even PORTION SIZE.
I can't help but think of poor Oliver Twist here. "Please, sir, I want some more."
Of course, Bloomberg isn't just keen on controlling what the homeless eat. As I've told you over the years, he's been trying to control what EVERYONE in "his" city eats.
This is a man who has spent much of his time in office declaring nonsensical wars on various food ingredients. He's fought to ban trans fats (even the healthy, natural ones), limit salt, and even pushed for a "sin tax" on soda.
But this latest move is just way too much, because we're not even talking about trying to limit choice. We're talking about people who already have no choice -- people so down and out they have no choice but to eat in a city shelter.
Many of them are starving.
I don't know what's on the menu in those shelters, but my guess based on the headlines is that it's Nanny State gruel -- and that anyone who eats it will continue to starve.
IMO Bloomberg has such a "Hitler complex".... Someone forgot to tell him that NY was not a concentration camp....