Comments on: NYC Health Department Gestapo Cracks Down on Calories http://www.americanmadness.com/2008/05/06/nyc-health-department-gestapo-cracks-down-on-calories/ Intelligent Criticism in the Service of a Better Nation Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:40:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Sam http://www.americanmadness.com/2008/05/06/nyc-health-department-gestapo-cracks-down-on-calories/#comment-130928 Sam Tue, 06 May 2008 21:21:13 +0000 http://americanmadness.com/2008/05/06/nyc-health-department-gestapo-cracks-down-on-calories/#comment-130928 Yes, but people are getting fatter and something needs to be done. We have an obesity epidemic in this country. I don't care if McDonald's is fined. They should be run out of business for all the pain they have inflicted on this country. We have scarred our children and our grandchildren with the incurable wound of obesity, all in the name of convenience. Yes, but people are getting fatter and something needs to be done. We have an obesity epidemic in this country. I don’t care if McDonald’s is fined. They should be run out of business for all the pain they have inflicted on this country. We have scarred our children and our grandchildren with the incurable wound of obesity, all in the name of convenience.

]]> By: Jason http://www.americanmadness.com/2008/05/06/nyc-health-department-gestapo-cracks-down-on-calories/#comment-130923 Jason Tue, 06 May 2008 20:55:31 +0000 http://americanmadness.com/2008/05/06/nyc-health-department-gestapo-cracks-down-on-calories/#comment-130923 This problem of violations being left to the whimsy of the inspector seems to be a bureaucratic problem across the board. My mother is a licensed New York State Childcare Provider and subject to inspections. She was recently assigned a new representative who cited her for several violations which were not violations according to her old representative. But the difference in her line of work is that she doesn't receive a fine, nor is there any punitive action taken right away. She is given time to correct the violation (although the public website lists that she has violations, but I think fails to note exactly what they are). This problem of violations being left to the whimsy of the inspector seems to be a bureaucratic problem across the board. My mother is a licensed New York State Childcare Provider and subject to inspections. She was recently assigned a new representative who cited her for several violations which were not violations according to her old representative.

But the difference in her line of work is that she doesn’t receive a fine, nor is there any punitive action taken right away. She is given time to correct the violation (although the public website lists that she has violations, but I think fails to note exactly what they are).

]]> By: Midas Mulligan http://www.americanmadness.com/2008/05/06/nyc-health-department-gestapo-cracks-down-on-calories/#comment-130914 Midas Mulligan Tue, 06 May 2008 20:24:15 +0000 http://americanmadness.com/2008/05/06/nyc-health-department-gestapo-cracks-down-on-calories/#comment-130914 In my new society there are no calorie counts. In my new society there are no calorie counts.

]]> By: John Galt http://www.americanmadness.com/2008/05/06/nyc-health-department-gestapo-cracks-down-on-calories/#comment-130873 John Galt Tue, 06 May 2008 17:14:43 +0000 http://americanmadness.com/2008/05/06/nyc-health-department-gestapo-cracks-down-on-calories/#comment-130873 The newest proposal, which I heard from an "Informed Source," is the distribution of meters which measure the muscle to fat ratio of diners before they are allowed to eat. I don't know exactly what the parameters of the system are, but when my source went to eat at MacDonalds yesterday he was tested and allowed to eat a small salad without dressing in styrofoam container and a cup of water. Will this be the future? The newest proposal, which I heard from an “Informed Source,” is the distribution of meters which measure the muscle to fat ratio of diners before they are allowed to eat. I don’t know exactly what the parameters of the system are, but when my source went to eat at MacDonalds yesterday he was tested and allowed to eat a small salad without dressing in styrofoam container and a cup of water. Will this be the future?

]]> By: Josh Friedlander http://www.americanmadness.com/2008/05/06/nyc-health-department-gestapo-cracks-down-on-calories/#comment-130851 Josh Friedlander Tue, 06 May 2008 15:37:32 +0000 http://americanmadness.com/2008/05/06/nyc-health-department-gestapo-cracks-down-on-calories/#comment-130851 Perhaps, but I like rat in my soufflé. Perhaps, but I like rat in my soufflé.

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