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May 1, 2009
Portrait of a Nanny State Food Nazi: David Kessler
Remember David Kessler, the officious bureaucrat who tried to place the tobacco industry under his jurisdiction when he was the FDA commissioner in the 1990s? The Supreme Court got in his way, but he still managed to help loot the industry for $billions. Now he has an even grander ambition: to determine what we eat.
In addition to his pathological need to impose his will on others — a universal trait among liberal bureauweenies — Kessler has a psychiatric disorder that manifests itself in wild weight swings:
At 5-foot-11, Kessler's weight has swung from 160 pounds to 230 pounds and back, many times over. He owns pants in sizes ranging from 34 to 42.
This he blames on Big Food, which uses nefarious substances such as sugar and salt to compel us to eat more than we want through the insidious means of causing food to taste good. Kessler proved his theory by burrowing through the garbage behind Chili's restaurants until he had uncovered boxes whose labels confirmed his terrible suspicions. According to the Dumpster-diving do-gooder:
The challenge is how do we explain to America what's going on — how do we break through and help people understand how their brains have been captured?
Kessler says that 85% of us share his inability to control what we eat, so powerful is Big Food's grip on our brains. The scheme is fiendishly clever:
Deprivation only heightens the way the brain values the food, which is why dieting doesn't work, he said.
I can confirm this from personal experience; the longer I go without eating, the hungrier I get.
This will no longer be a problem when Big Government inevitably does to Big Food what it did to Big Tobacco. Before long, food prices will follow cigarette prices through the stratosphere, with anything that tastes good either taxed beyond our means or banned outright. Kessler et al.'s work won't be done until Americans sport the lean physiques fashionable in socialist utopias that are a step ahead of us, like North Korea and Zimbabwe.

On a tip from Shea.
Posted by Van Helsing at May 1, 2009 11:17 AM
Comments
Dang... now I know why those Double six dollar cheeseburgers from Carls Jr. keep jumping out at me. It's Big Food's fault!!!
*&%@#!
Posted by: Nathaniel M at May 1, 2009 11:38 AM
I knew someone else was to blame for me being a fatty. I knew it could not possibly be my overeating/lack of exercise/genetics. I knew it was not my fault. I knew I was a victim.
Posted by: KOOK at May 1, 2009 11:58 AM
I knew I would be able to blame somebody else for me being a fat gluttonous bastard.
I knew it had nothing to do with me sitting at this PC all friggin day, never even getting up except for some chips and salsa or a marshmallow and peanut butter hero sandwich (extra Bosco please). Sorry, gotta go and call the wife and find out if she's bringing home a double sausage pie or Beef with double fried won tons. Damn where's the phone, hell now I have to get up too?
Hey man, if you're a fatso (like me) its because YOU put too much food in YOUR mouth and sit on YOUR fat ass all damn day! Its that simple, see the nurse on the way out, ok!
Posted by: Shooter1001 at May 1, 2009 12:21 PM
"I can confirm this from personal experience; the longer I go without eating, the hungrier I get."
I can confirm this too!
I can also confirm:
-The longer I stay awake, the more tired I get
-The more unprotected sex I have, the more children I have to feed
-The more I quit jobs that don't "engage me," the harder it is for me to establish a career
-The more money I spend, the less I have
All of these ills can be cured through moonbat legislation, though. Thank God for liberals!
Posted by: Matt at May 1, 2009 12:25 PM
Considering the fact that almost the exact same chemistry takes place in the brain during sexual arousal and orgasm, that will probably be this former fatty's next target for fascist prohibition.
In the WaPo article, he admits that he was a fat POS that never exercised, but he wants to blame his obesity on someone else. Typical "progressive" victicrat refusal to accept self-responsibilty.
Posted by: Henry at May 1, 2009 12:28 PM
PUT DOWN THE FORK!
Posted by: nancz at May 1, 2009 12:31 PM
David Kessler can eat ME!
Posted by: Parley at May 1, 2009 12:54 PM
Please. I know a 20 year old kid who spent high school in a wheelchair and ballooned up to 340 pounds. Now, he not only walks, he's also down to under 200 pounds.
Despite what leftists would have us believe, people aren't helpless slaves.
Posted by: V the K at May 1, 2009 1:31 PM
"Were we directed from Washington when to sow, and when to reap, we should soon want bread." -- Thomas Jefferson
What would Jefferson say if he were to find that now Washington not only directs us when to so and when to reap, but also in what amounts, and also what and when to eat?
Posted by: James McEnanly at May 1, 2009 2:20 PM
Its always easy for stupid liberals to blame everything or anyone but those who are responible its like that jerk who pigged out at McDonalds and Burger King then filed a stupid lawsuit blaming them for his own carless lazy beharior THE JUDGE SHOULD HAVE PUT THAT JERK ON A BREAD AND WATER DIET AND SENT HIM TO A GYM FOR THREE STRIGHT HOUR ON THE TREADMILL AND GIVEN THE SAME TO HIS LAWYER
Posted by: Spurwing Plover at May 1, 2009 2:22 PM
Damn I'm getting tired of people trying to "help."
And it looks like I'm going to miss out on victimhood once again, since I'm very active and in shape. I just can't catch a break.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at May 1, 2009 3:07 PM
There was a scene in Gilligan's Island where we heard this exchange:
"Do you REALLY want to help me?"
"Sure, skipper."
"Then DON'T help me!"
That should be rephrased for Liberals and put on billboards across America.
Posted by: KHarn at May 1, 2009 3:27 PM
Can't you just envision that swastika armband on him!? Or is that the Obama ZERO. Mein Furer...
Posted by: TED at May 1, 2009 4:19 PM
Hey i like cDonalds cheese burgers and fries as well as their coke milk and cookies i like whoppers i like western bacon cheese burgers and the KFC and JACK IN THE BOX i realy resent these wheatgerm inhaling health freaks from dictating what i can eat or drink
Posted by: Flu-Bird at May 1, 2009 9:05 PM
I accept this site why because I learn more information from this site
Posted by: coins at May 2, 2009 5:36 AM
They've gone after everything else... whether or not you can smoke cigarettes, what kind of car you can drive, what kind of lightbulb you can use in your homes, what kind of toilet you can have, etc.
When are we going to start taking back some of our liberty and telling people like the Super Size Me brought to life here to STFU?
Posted by: Atomic Lib Smasher at May 2, 2009 8:09 AM
So basically Kessler wants the government to help him deal with his eating disorder.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at May 2, 2009 9:13 AM
The more conservative blogs I read, the more my brain shrivels.
And hey At Lib ... I though STFU was the liberal way? Aren't WE always telling people to shut up?
Why are you crying over efficient lightbulbs and toilets? And are you really going to try and defend cigarettes? The government regulates A LOT of stuff, and food has been among those for a long time.
I think the biggest point from the article mentioned here (you DID read the article, right?) Is that ingredients are not listed for food chains. As a country we are grossly out of shape and getting worse. Anyone can make a huge ol fatty bacon burger any time they want, this is just about what happens in public eating places.
Still, all I hear here are attacks on this guy's personality. I don't know anything about him, so I'm not about to defend him, but stick to the subject.
Or, you know, call me a socialist again. I've got a name list up now, and I just make hash marks next to them. Just to keep track of how reasoned and calm y'all are.
Posted by: Anonymous at May 2, 2009 12:53 PM
Well Anonypussy do you want some jackass regulating how much sugar or salt you can use in your food? I run a BBQ restaurant in Memphis the ingredients we use here are quite simple. BBQ sauce and dry rub. Oh and we do have great fried green tomatoes. Come on to Memphis and get a slab of hickory smoked ribs. I'll even buy them for you! You libs are very sick and need help! 2010 is coming!!!!!
Posted by: Watching at May 2, 2009 2:44 PM
"The more conservative blogs I read, the more my brain shrivels."
STRAIGHT LINE ALERT!
By the way, don't you care that those "efficient lightbulbs" contain MURCURY VAPOR? That's a DEADLY POISON, in case you didn't know.
Posted by: KHarn at May 2, 2009 3:54 PM
Posted by: Anonymous at May 2, 2009 12:53 PM
I could care less about cars and light bulbs, I just want you do-gooders to mind your own business. I don't think an ingredients list is really going to make anyone who's about to order a double Whopper with fries stop and say, "Gee, maybe this isn't good for me." If you haven't made the connection between eating greasy food and being a lard ass, you probably never will.
I'm also very sorry that people call you names. I'm sorry that it wreaks such havoc inside of you that you feel the need to make a list, and tick them off, and even tell us about it. In fact, a single tear is even rolling down my cheek, just for you. :(
Posted by: cowlove at May 2, 2009 4:21 PM
What I'd like to see him do is attack the fructose lobby. There are actual scientific reasons to question the use of high-fructose corn syrup; it is suspected of contributing to obesity and diabetes.
The logical replacement (cane sugar) is barred from the U.S. market by import quotas. Consumers pay more, and the U.S. candy industry gets f--d (thousands of jobs lost just in Chicago).
Will Kessler take on Archer-Daniels-Midland and the domestic cane-sugar lobby? Ha!
Posted by: Rich Rostrom at May 2, 2009 7:20 PM
Aw geeze cowlove, always biting on the unnecessary details. I don't actually keep a checklist, that's just hyperbole and trying to make a point. You guys love the name calling as much as any liberal, although pretending much of the time that you're above the fray. That's my point.
As you've heard me repeat over and over, the anonymous nature of a site like this prevents much hurting of feelings. So wipe away your pretend tear, I know you don't have much emotion besides anger anyway.
Posted by: Anonymous at May 3, 2009 10:43 AM
I see Anonymous. When I take a humorous tone to respond to yours, it's nitpicking on little details and being angry. When you ignore the main point in what I actually wrote and focus on hyperbole, you're not doing the very thing you took offense to...
Good luck in your future endeavors.
Posted by: cowlove at May 3, 2009 4:40 PM
Kindly tell NEAL BERNARD,MARION NESTLY,JEREMY RIFKIN,MICHEAL JACOBSON,MORGAN SPURLOCK and RALPH NADER to keep their noses out of our kitchens and pantries
Posted by: Flu-Bird at May 3, 2009 9:41 PM

