Flutterby™! : Spend and spend

FDA asks restaurant industry to shrink portions to combat obesity:

The report, requested and funded by the Food and Drug Administration, lays out ways to help people manage their intake of calories from the growing number of meals prepared away from home, including at the nation's nearly 900,000 restaurants and other establishments that serve food.

You know what? This one's easy. Instead of spending more money lobbying fast food joints to decrease their portions and charge us the same amount of money, how about simply reducing the huge government subsidies which make fast food possible at such ridiculously cheap prices. Remove the billions of dollars a year in subsidies that go to corn that make "chicken" nuggets cheaper than a healthy meal and, guess what, all of a sudden healthful food won't be the more expensive option.

Of course this means reworking farm and agricultural policy, something that's never been done without giving even more money to those leeches at ADM, Monsanto and Cargill, but if we're ever going to stop the "if I can get away with it it must be right" kleptocracy that our legislators seem to be gleefully promoting, we need to pick specific battles and harp on them.