Lynch at Large

Camie Boggess is an old buddy and she is representing the vending machine industry these days. I hate to ever admit siding with business, but when the health Nazis rise up to take away my divinely ordained right to woof down a dozen Krispy Keme doughnuts any time I darned well please, somebody needs to do something!

The core of the issue is a rulemaking process that is developing guidelines for school nutrition. Vending machines are an easy target while the do-gooders forget that the school cafeteria is FRYING chicken, fish, and potatoes. This interview, by far, provoked the highest caliber of email response. You can listen in the WAI Radio archive linked on the left hand column.

“A guy just called to see he’d had a heart attack listening to the vending machine lobbyist talk about how the business was going to be an agent of healthy change, or something like that. Please. Fill those machines with fruit now, Camie. Burn those Hershey bars. Lead us to the promised land of hard bodies and long lives.”

“When Came says: "well, Pat, What can I say"? It reminds me of Bernard Whetstone's brilliant defense of you at the Diabetes Roast. Are you and your guest aware that Coca-Cola is selling LITTLE ROCK TAP WATER for a dollar a bottle and calling it Dasani? They filter it and add some "minerals" but it's TAP WATER. Why would anyone pay a dollar for any kind of bottled water when the United States has the safest water supply in the world?”

“Cammie was a hoot, at least the candy saleswoman was honest.”

Camie left a link for the Arkansas Center for Health Improvement, which has all the BMI info, as well as a copy of Act 1220 and the original recommendations of the Child Healthcare Advisory Committee http://www.achi.net/current_initiatives/obesity.asp

I am definitely on the vending machine owners side on this one. If they can push kids around like this, I am bound to be next.