Chance, you are so right.
Some people wanted to ban coffee till they found out it has some positive health benifits as well.
And I could argue that fatty foods do as well.
I used to visit nursing homes as part of the yeshivah program to
reach out to and show other yidden that they are not forgotten, and to encourage them to embrace yiddishkeit (at any age).
What I noticed was that the ones with Parkinsens and Alzheimers and other diseases of the brain were mostly the skinny ones.
Those who were “overweight” were largly free of such diseases compared to the % of those who were skinny and had such diseases.
The “fat” ones were mentally aware and could hold an intelligent conversation while the skinny ones were lucky if they even knew someone was in the room, let alone what they were saying.
And it is not just government control over what we may eat, it’s
unconstitutional government control in every area of our lives and health is just one more excuse to attack and vilify business.
They are also going after animal breeders quite viciously, for example calling them “abusers of animals” and we all know how they have devestated and mercislesly bashed, the energy industry and the auto manufacturers and they practically have people rioting on Wall Street calling for the blood of anyone in the financial industry.
In the movie; Escape from LA (Sequal to Escape from New York)
in one scene, the asssitant to the President for life (remind you of someone in office now who wants that for himself? perhaps) rattles off about 10 or 15 things that the government has banned like smoking and red meat and I think restrictions on where someone could go and what they could believe in etc…At the end of the list Snake Pliskin sarcsatically responds;
“Land of the Free”.