{"id":26339,"date":"2014-06-18T06:35:46","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T11:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=26339"},"modified":"2014-06-18T06:35:46","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T11:35:46","slug":"qotd-obesity-and-the-federalization-of-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/06\/18\/qotd-obesity-and-the-federalization-of-food\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Obesity and the federalization of food"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>One of the problems with scrupulously &#8220;sanitized&#8221; food is that it doesn&#8217;t taste of anything very much, which may be why people consume it in large quantities: With food, if the taste doesn&#8217;t satisfy you, you chow until the sheer quantity does. I&#8217;ve no research on the subject and my theory may be as full of holes as a Swiss cheese, but the fact is that the federalization of food has coincided with the massive expansion of obesity in America, and I&#8217;m inclined to think these two things are not unrelated.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Steyn, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steynonline.com\/6416\/cheeseboarder-patrol\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Cheeseboarder Patrol&#8221;, <em>SteynOnline.com<\/em><\/a>, 2014-06-12.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the problems with scrupulously &#8220;sanitized&#8221; food is that it doesn&#8217;t taste of anything very much, which may be why people consume it in large quantities: With food, if the taste doesn&#8217;t satisfy you, you chow until the sheer quantity does. I&#8217;ve no research on the subject and my theory may be as full [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,74,84,66,41],"tags":[150,661],"class_list":["post-26339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-food","category-government","category-health-science","category-quotations","tag-obesity","tag-regulation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6QP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26340,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26339\/revisions\/26340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}