Obesity Epidemic

[bcholmes]

Clearly, since childhood obesity has become an epidemic, it's only reasonable to:

• take a hard, serious look at factory farming practices, likely resulting in bans of certain practices
• demand extensive (and expensive) studies from the manufacturers of food animal growth hormones
• nationalize the food industry, or at least institute far greater government controls
• immediately cease approvals on any form of genetically-modified food until we're certain they aren't part of the problem
• institute huge fines for any industry that promotes any unsustainable diet, given the clear link between "failed" diets and weight gain (and by "unsustainable diet", I think I mean all of them, but let the burden of proof of sustainability be on the promoters)

All of these things seem like logical responses to the "epidemic". I'm surprised there are no newspaper articles calling for any of them.