Government pushes low fat cheesy diets...

I was reading the huffpo and came along this article. The huffington post editors were stunned to find that a government that promotes and incentivizes healthy eating would also give millions of dollars to promote cheese, a substance that although is delicious, has been known to add on a few pounds.

They go through this process. The government thinks Americans should eat better and work out more. A noble goal. The problem is that farmers make up and enormous voting block and are not beholden to any one party. To remedy this, the politicians use a percentage of the tax revenues they take from the farmers through taxes they use it to promote consumption of cheese. How did this happen? The government has been promoting low percentage milk (1 or 2% instead of whole). This milk fat has to go somewhere so it goes into cheese, which lowers in price. In order to handle the overflow of cheese the government basically helps firms by paying for advertising promoting the cheese.

So the government takes some of your tax dollars to promote people to live a health lifestyle. Taxes the farmers, raising the price of your milk and then spends a percenage of those tax dollars to promote a substance full of saturated fat. The government at work....

BTW HuffPo readers, this is not limited to dairy. There is no more egregious example than subsidizing tobacco farmers and paying for non-smoking campaigns.