The majority of consumers do not care what's on the ingredient label beyond what the media tells them is horribad.
I have a God-given, natural, and, if I were a US citizen, I would also have a Constitutional right not to care. I could go on forever about whether or not people care about their diets, but frankly, I don't care.
Because
I already live in a society where people who believe this sort of stuff are in charge. I live in a society where bloody airguns are illegal, poker is illegal (playing! Poker! In your own apartment with your buddies! Is illegal!), where motor racing is still illegal, where importing food into the country is illegal unless it is approved by rabbis, where milk (MILK!!!) is the most expensive, per gallon, in the
entire world because of regulations. Because I know that once we let people ban stuff because it raises 'healthcare costs', or is not right for you, people will ban
anything.
Remember that old quote about the guy who tortures you because he feels it's his moral duty, and how that guy will never stop? That was a lie. The worst monster is the monster who has been persuaded his moral duty and his self-interest coincide. If you cut people loose with the idea that they can ban you from doing stuff both for your own good and to simultaneously cut their own bills, they will never stop. They'll never have shame, or mercy, or reason, they'll just come up with more stuff to ban forever. They'll tax twinkies, and then they'll ban them, too, and they'll ban smoking, and anything they can get away with.
On this argument, there's nothing morally wrong with a 73% tax on all new cars (after all, less cars = less car accidents, right?), and a ban on possession of gold bullion, and…
What you're basically arguing is that they can ban any activity that's bad for your health.
You're arguing that the idiocy I experience every single day, where about half of the things I want to do for my pleasure is banned, and the other half is taxed into extinction, is moral and good and well-deserved. And you think this should actually be inflicted on your fellow Americans too? Seriously?
Well, no. I don't deserve to live in a universe without damned Twinkies.
If I want to stuff flour and sugar up my gullet until I pass out, well that's my right.
It's not
about whether healthcare costs go up or down.
It's about my children, and my children's children, not living in a universe like this.
If I want to make sure my son's world has homeschooling, and guns, and cars, and poker, and basic individual freedom in it, then it also has to have Twinkies.
God bless Twinkies, and may God continue to Bless America.