Why are Americans poisoning themselves?

[JackHandy]

LegitHyperbole said:

JackHandy said:

If you trace our origin story down you will find the answers to just about everything. We were born out of rebellion, a certain stubbornness to conform. For better or worse, we do what we want and on our own terms, nobody else's. This mindset extends to health, politics, love, war... everything. Above all, we desire freedom. Freedom to choose the right path and freedom to choose the wrong path.

There is no freedom in having the food industry become a near monopoly and taint and poison the poors or even middle classes food options. Wheter they are treats or not. There is no freedom in having 45 grams of sugar packed into one can of "Soda". There is only sickness in this and it's not like you have the freedom to get sick from this food over there or you'll spend your life repaying medical bills. The freedom you think you have over other countries is just relabelled and repackaged in the worse ways while "FREEDOM" is used to distract from the atrocities that are done to you by your own government and the corporations who control it. 

All that aside, as mentioned, the people want the choice to poison themselves. They don't want to be told what they can and cannot put into their bodies. Because remember: you can't sell poison to people who won't buy it. People want it, so they sell it to them. So blame the people. It's their fault they're dying.