(1) I agree completely about the horrors of genetically modified foods. For instance, can you even imagine the size of chickens Walmart uses? Have you seen the size of their chicken breasts?
(2) I have no idea what you mean by "this brainwashing". Do you mean, government telling us genetically altered food is good for us? If so, I do not put any merit in what government says is good or bad for me. I believe in my own life experiences, and in what my grandparents told/taught me when I was growing up.
(3) I do not understand why this is an issue for government - on the federal level. When the people have control over their environment (states rights), then this issue can be better discussed and better dealt with. I think people have become so fat because government got involved in the first place, going back to before the dust bowl. Government went around and left leaflets for farmers telling them it was ok to grow one crop season after season. It has snowballed since, and there is no government law, rule, regulation, that will MAKE people give a damn. You don't fix a crack with a bigger crack farther down the dike.
(1) There may be more meat in those chickens, but you're also ingesting hormones, among other latent chemicals and enhancers.
(2) As mentioned earlier, food corporations "brainwash" impressionable and innocent children through advertisements specifically designed to hook them while they're watching cartoons. It's not just little children that are taken advantage of, but preteens, teens, and adults as well. These corporations try to find the most effective methods in raking in customers, their be damned; it's all about the money. If you can addict your client base, well, that's one of the best things you can do to accrue money. It works for cocaine and other illegal drug suppliers, and the same concept holds true here. I don't know what your grandparents taught you, but clearly there are far more people in America who don't seem to know what you were taught. Iirc there have been certain groups like the CDC that discussed the dangers of sugar, but were essentially ignored by other parts of government; I'd have to get my notes. Simply put some parts of government have tried to educate the public, but they public is becoming so fat and incompetent that the majority, 2/3, have developed thick layers of fat cells around their ear canals.
(3) Well, if over $50 trillion dollars went towards the subsization of corn farming, to get high fructose corn syrup which has now been proven to make people dumber, I'd say we have a problem on that issue alone. Those people who squeal for individual rights don't give a damn about the obesity epidemic. They want the right to shove countless slices of pizza down their gullets. They don't care about how this puts a massive burden on healthcare, medical costs, insurance, etc. They don't care about the mortality rate. Hell, they simply don't care, because all that matters is that they have the right to feed. No, I want to fix that. What are you going to do when 90% of all adults are obese? Repeatedly that question has been ignored by others, and now you as well.
No, tax them. Tax the deathly foods like fried chicken. We tax alcohol and tobacco, so we can also tax the select
already made foods like fried chicken and doughnuts. Did you know that this bad food dumbs people down? Why do you think it's such a struggle to enlighten people and solve this obesity problem when 2/3 of the entire nation are obese? If we use sin taxes, regulate the bad foods, get those damned foods out of systems like wealthfare, create a BMI, and maybe reward/benefit those that give a damn about their health, our nation would be so much better off. Why do you think European nations seem so much healthier and fit than Americans? It's because their governments said enough was ******* enough and have taken steps to solve the problem.