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Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer is releasing a report today that proposes limiting the amount of fast food joints in the city, giving incentives to encourage healthier markets and mandating city agencies to purchase local produce. Stringer said, “Our foodshed is already broken and we need to fix it,” referring to the big picture of how food is brought, bought, sold, cooked and eaten in the city. Stringer thinks the city should give tax and zoning incentives to bring farmers' markets into areas lacking in healthy food outlets. He also called for schools, shelters and other agencies to be required to buy 20 percent of their vegetables and dairy products from sources within a couple hundred miles of the city. One food consultant said that the plan might be a bit unrealistic to the area's farmland geography telling the Times, “It’s a bigger picture than just apples and carrots.” Nutritional initiatives have been on the rise lately with the health-conscious mayor's calorie display requirements and the governor's talk of raising revenue through a "fat tax."
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This petty little tyrant and all the other food fascists can take their damn nanny state and shove it up their asses.
I'm sick and tired of these do-gooder elitists trying to micromanage everyday life for their social and intellectual inferiors. Every dictatorship ship starts out doing what's "for your own good."
Agreed.
True, but it's much more expensive to pay for the inevitable bypasses for these lazy fatasses.
There is no personal accountability for the personal freedoms you're (rightly) saying we should have.
Get people to sign health care waivers (that stick) and I'd agree with you. As long as I'm being forced to pay for (a disproportionately large) portion of the safety net, I want rules, especially given that companies are profiting from peddling their crap and receiving aggie subsidies to boot.
Let's think about this for a minute. McDonald's provides jobs for people in New York City, especially people that don't have fancy educations. Farmer's markets provide very few jobs because the people running the stalls usually come from outside the city. With unemployment going higher than 7%, is this such a wise idea? Is Scott Stringer trying to get everyone on the welfare rolls?
That's actually not true. They hire people who live here so they don't have to schlep them from upstate. I have several friends who work at the various green markets around the city. And honestly, some of them *do* have fancy educations and work at the farmers markets because they believe in them. These are not 24 year olds either.
I am worried about the global "nanny state".
I worry that The World Trade Organization "free trade" treaty that forbids the U.S. government from "buying American" with it's own funds under the stimulus plan, could be applied to all government spending.
Is it possible that Canadian or Mexican governments could go to the WTO, and claim that New York City's "buy local" ordinance harms their "free trade" or agriculture and is "protectionism", and America could have trade sanctions slapped on it?
Ditto.