Seven Events That Made America America (2010) - Plot & Excerpts
IKE HAS A HEART ATTACK, TRIGGERING DIETARY NANNYISM Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now. THOMAS JEFFERSON In a chapter dealing with food, it’s appropriate to start with a recipe: begin with two parts unsettled science; add three parts anticapitalism; stir in four parts big-government nannyism and vegan extremism; then sprinkle generously with overpopulation hysteria and top with a healthy dollop of global warming. Your dish? A disastrous war on meat whose initial objective—to reduce the rate of heart disease among the population—led to the politicization of the American diet in the name of public health, while providing cover for every crackpot food fearmonger and free-marketophobe in the United States. The heartburn you feel after ingesting this dish is just the first sign of something much harder to swallow: the idea that pseudoscientists can dictate, via the government food police, what you are supposed to eat.
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