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January 28, 2007
Britain's Nanny State Confiscating Overweight Children
Posted by Dave Blount at January 28, 2007 1:10 PM
One reason the nanny state has been able to bloat into the monstrosity it is without significant resistance is that many of its encroachments on our liberties are difficult to take seriously. Who is going to mount an expensive campaign to save trans fats or smoking in your car? Tiny bit by tiny bit, do-gooder bureaucrats have chipped away at our freedom until at last it has come to this:
In Britain, obese children are going on the child protection register right next to kids thought to be at risk for sexual or physical abuse. Children have actually been taken from their parents and placed in foster care due to weight issues. Some doctors advocate legal proceedings against parents who feed their children too much.
Reports Dr. Russell Viner, a London consultant pediatrician:
In my practice, I can think of about 10 or 15 cases in which child protection action has been taken because of obesity. We now constantly get letters from social workers about child protection due to childhood obesity.
Proving yet again that absurdity is no brake on moonbattery, a couple of Brits were found guilty of animal cruelty earlier this month for letting their dog get fat.
On a tip from Wiggins.
