A campaigning group has been set up to defend people's right to eat whatever they like - even if it is unhealthy - after a government think tank proposed additional taxation on fatty foods and dairy products.

You can read the article in full here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2325819.stm

Anthony Worral Thompson, who is featured in this article, is a celebrity chef in the UK who has begun to extol the virtues of low carbing after being diagnosed with Syndrome X. He is planning to bring out his own 'Dieting for Life' book next year.

Oh my God, I'll starve!

I think this is completely out of line - this is certainly something worth fighting for. No one is going to tell me what I eat except ME!

Dawn (who is incensed)

That's the most ridiculous thing I ever heard.

A better solution would be to regulate fast food and junk food companies. Disallow advertising aimed at children and forbid the sale of junk food in schools.

Then they could tax those same companies and use the money for school lunch programs and funding of research on the obesity epidemic.

Next thing you know the "fat police" will be arresting us all regardless of where we live. Where are they going to put us all and what are they going to do with our confiscated black market butter?!

What really gets me is this "scientific think tank" is on the government payroll. I, for one, think the government should be making better use of their tax revenue. With all the trouble in the world today, how can any government justify wasting valuable tax revenue on this kind of frivolous crap?
asugar

A quote from Mr.Clark



All I can say is "Yeah right". Sounds like an American company would be setting itself up for a major lawsuit.

Why won't Mr.Clark name the companies? I like his maybe threatened with dismissal comment. I give him the spinmaster grandmaster award.