well...TAX THE FAT

..hopefully you took the time to download and listen to the kids point of view from the Eco Meeting.There's a lot of truth right there as sad as it may seem and it does (or should) make you give a damn..

Looking at Cigg prices increase everytime I get the urge to started to really piss me off.
Why?
'Cos it aint the number one killer anymore but it's still the tax scapegoat alongside petrol and anything else the government know we either are addicted too or require..
However, what astounds me is the fact that they haven't taxed the easiest one which just took poll position in highest death rates and hospital beds, and thats Sugar..
People are eating so many pies that they're killing themselves and at the same time making our tax money get eaten as well as we try and save them.But when was the last mention of a supertax on fast food? And why?
Can you imagine if they supertaxed fast food and every other high sugar /gi index food?
Jeez, people may even take a step back in evolution and make their own food again as opposed to tv dinners which zz top immortalized..I remember watching teh music video wondering what all the fuss was about...and now it's here and even I'm guilty of sometimes taking the easy way out.A silver bucket of hydrafat please which never burns off..ever (u can fry potatoe chips in the same vat for at least a year without the fat losing its freshness...!!!)
Does anyone actually realise that fast food is one of the reasons the amazonian forests are getting chopped down to ensure we have enough beef farms to put together with pure sugar sauce and white bread (see fast carbs..)..so we would atually be helping the rain forests which in effect would help the O-Zone layer.We need plants and trees..
But is anything bigger than these big corporations? No.
They play with the planet, they ensure the right people sit in the right seats when it matters and they use base politics in unemplyment figures to justify slave wages..but it keeps the stats looking healthy at the polls and no government is strong enough to say no or uncorruptable..
When I arrived here there was one pizza restaurant in Uppsala, now you would be hard pushed to find a place in the country without those golden arches and close bya competitor, all serving either pepsi cola or the original using famous names in million dollar contracts to try and get the kids to buy their product.
The thing is it isn't the people who suffer who get to see those ads, its the spoilt for choice pull the ladder up and get obese generation.I wonder what percentage of kids will be able to cook real food in the future or are we heading towards a red or blue tablet to represent strawberry or rasberry desert?
Has it all gone too far? Can we actually make a difference? We tried no so long ago with documentries about how ill and near death you become eating junk food..didnt stop the stream as it's now the number 1 addition and knocks nikoteen off top spot..We have less people starving to death than eating themselves to death and if you find it rather repulsive in Europe then don't take a trip to the states. Brings a new concept to the word "batfass"..

Anyway, as usual we don't just need these negatives pointed out, we need answers and I think I may have it.
I should coax myself into starting a political party. The people would have to fund it obviously as unlike the other parties we wouldn't entertain funding from the corporations.
Then we would be ever so popular and supertax the newly called "Sugarites". As opposed to Sodomites but there is a similar "ring" in the name.
I would base the tax on the Gi index and of course sugar as opposed to fat content. All the Hydrafats would be illigalised and cannabis would be legalized just to ensure votes..
The tax would be on the same level as gas, ciggs and booze as sugar is indeed a luxury.
And who knows, people may even start making themselves more food..fruit and veg taxes would become less and anymore over the BMI / Waist test would be given concessions on their yearly tax.
Lets not forget we'd also have to ensure we safed the fish we're extincting, so that would also be a major job to handle.The policys will have to be considered more..hmm
The tune would be Joan Baez version of "Amazing Grace" from the New York palladium in '75.

Gotta get thinking...b right back