Mmmmm.....
Candied bacon pound cake?!?
The study showed that rats allowed unlimited access to junk foods like bacon, sausage, pound cake, candy bars and other deplorably unhealthy fare gained weight quickly.
“Deplorably unhealthy” ?!? [nice job of journalistic evenhandedness sticking to Teh Narrative]
Ok, dammit. The FOODS are NOT “unhealthy.” The way in which they may be used may be “unhealthy.” Rational beings know that candied bacon pound cake is not an every-day/all-day diet. Rational beings know that one must eat one’s spinach. Most Rational beings enjoy their spinach.
But we’re not dealing with Rational beings, here, are we? We’re dealing with rats. Rats don’t think. These rats had nothing else available from which to get their nutrition. So are “we” making decisions for people—who have choices—based on the behavior of rats?!?
Why?
And that’s not all; the worst part is that the rats became so addicted to the junk food, they began compulsively eating it, despite the fact that they received an unpleasant electric shock to their feet if they consumed more than was allowed.
... rats under the influence of junk food the dopamine D2 receptor in the brain’s reward system suppressed; compulsive eating soon followed. ... bla bla bla ... This is not the only study suggesting that food can be addictive. ...
This is an animal study; the findings may not apply to humans. However, there is that altogether reasonable possibility that they just might.
“Might”?!?
*facepalm* here we go:
Rats become “addicted” to “Junk Food” -> The substance creates the addiction* ->Addicts do not have a choice* -> We must “protect” good people from the eeeevil substance that will make them addicts
* popular, but false meme.
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The Pencil Principle
-by Me *ahem*
A pencil is a piece of technology.
A pencil can be used to write a sonnet. A pencil can be used to stab someone’s eye out.
The Pencil did not make the choice.
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