Some of you may or may not know that Denmark has introduced a tax on foods which contain more than 2.3% saturated fat in them. Recently my (Conservative) PM David Cameron spoke of introducing a similar measure to prevent an obesity crisis, citing America as a negative example of why we need to do this. Thus it's been in the press a fair amount recently.
People seem generally supportive of this proposal in the UK, and although our obesity epidemic isn't as bad as America's, we do have a hell of a lot of unhealthily fat people here. I don't mind adding that I am supportive of this issue. I believe people need to learn to see the bigger picture instead of just saying ''oh gosh, I just lost a piece of cake/freedom, this means the government is tyrannical and needs to be removed from power''.
But given the amount of Americans here on AG I'd be interested in hearing the other side of the fence, and to hear from some Danes would also be great, but anyone can of course chip in.
Its not the foods fault people are fat its the peoples fault they use stupid excuses like they eat healthily and still get fat its the amount they eat that does it and then to make it worse the government gives fat people benefits for being fat I don't see them giving underweight people benefits.
Such a shame. I had the most absurdly unhealthy diet out of everyone in high school (Mountain Mike's pizza for lunch EVERY SINGLE DAY, hit McDonalds after school 3 or 4 times a week, heck, I'd eat half a dozen Wienerschnitzel corn dogs in one sitting on a good day) and my sister, two years younger than me, STILL weighs more than me, and she's practically vegetarian.
I have to eat ****ing ridiculously bad just to make sure my body doesn't digest itself. Why should I have to pay more for my terrible food when it's the only thing keeping me from dropping to double digit pounds?
