I still don't want to touch the stuff though, i just think GM is a bad idea. And it may help the developing world, if the food was wasted so much in America or Europe. The world has enough food for 11 billion (huge surplus) and yet at least 1 billion are starving. Seems fair! With such a huge surplus, why do we need to modify it in the first place? It's fine as it is.  

Americans don't have a federal healthcare system. Well they do now, but it's very primitive. However for places like Canada and europe, this is a big point.

Also I agree with you, although it's kinda cruel, lol. I really really hate when people take up 2 seats on the subway, why don't they pay double fare?

Also to add to the reasons you mentioned, keeping people alive not only cost money, but has environment consequences. The amount of food an obese person eats is a lot more then a regular person, and food comes from somewhere. Generally big people eat a lot of red meat, and red meat has a larger carbon/energy cost on the world, since you have to feed and give water to the livestock before you eat it.

But naming reasons like this is a bit cruel.

no the government cant just ban unhealthy foods. we have the right to eat whatever we want to eat and we have to decide whether we will eat healthy foods or not. this thread is ridiculos and is not needed on a sales site.

I actually prefer the classic coke formula from America, however the HFC doesn't go well with my body so I don't drink it.

The next best thing I found was Mexican Coke, it uses sugar.

Coke in Australia also uses real sugar, however they add too much gas, so you fill bloated, perhaps government regulated so you don't drink too many cans lol.

No, it's the parent's job to keep their kids healthy, not Uncle Sam's.

This is just another stupid tax/regulation that takes away freedom.

Just cause we have more food in America it doesn't mean that food can/should magically appear in 3rd world countries. It's much smarter to just supply them with better crops so they can feed themselves. In addition GM crops can take care of things surplus food can't, such as vitamin deficiencies.

Can you actually supply us with a valid source stating salt is added to pop to make consumers drink more pop? That's a pretty absurd claim...

I have to say, Americans sure think.....differently.

Yes individuals have the right to decide what they eat, but they should also have laws regulating fat/salt/sugar quantities in food so that people know it's safe.

In the case of pop, there shouldn't be salt in pop.... I'm not saying you should drink pop, I'm just saying pop should be better for you, we don't need corporations making us thirstier with pop.

I mean how is this any different then cigarettes? We heavily tax cigarettes because they are bad for you. So is junk food.

Are you OK with direct breeding? Like if you have a high yield plant and a low yield one and you only take seeds from the high yield one?

If not, then why did we ever adopt any technique to improve farming? Why do we need fertiliser? Why do we need irrigation? Are you seriously saying crop yields are good enough and shouldn't improve?

Your argument is still coming from, "UGH GM IS UNNATURAL". If it's bad please link the data.

Other then what my doctor and co-workers tell me (I work at a medical clinic), no, I don't. However there is no need to add salt to pop, there are other substances which are just as effective at making it fix without the harmful health effects.

Also, I'm reading a lot of Americans talk about their freedoms. If the government subsidizes corn, so that you eat more corn based products, how is that not the same less against your freedom? Remove the subsidy you you truely can eat/drink what you want. This would naturally inflate the cost of chips and other junk food, but if healthier alternatives are cheaper without subsidies, and you eat healthier things as a result, then isn't this truely freedom and not some world where junk food is subsidized?

Also when I made this thread, the intention is that you still get to eat what you like, only it's healthier now. Yes junk food will likely go up in price a bit, but the gain in health from producers putting less salt/fat/sugar in their foods would be worth the stricter regulations. It's no different then speed limits on highways, they are there to keep you alive (in the case of food alive longer).