This is a great little video with a lot of good information about how unfair the US is to everyone else. A point I have absolutely no ground to debate; it's true. But, it's interesting the contradictions that are presented in this extremely liberal video with well known liberal ideals. It's hard to straighten out what you're after when you want something impossible: a single entity to create and manage a utopian society in which there are no trade offs, there is no suffering, there are no mistakes and everyone is entirely crime-free, stress-free, guilt-free and fat-free. This entity is supposed to maintain absolute freedom of choice, but limit everyone's potential for messing up by...controlling their freedoms. I sound like anti-liberal douche bag, and of course conservatives have contradictions too, but it just makes me wonder...
My favorite part is when the host derides "government" for creating a society in which childbearing-age women are "forced" to work in a factory handling unsafe materials. The poor woman has no choice. And it's the government's fault for not providing a better job opportunity. But, isn't one of the major democratic platforms to deride the government for allowing these factory jobs to disappear overseas? So, which is it? Is the government to blame for factory work's existence and then to blame when factory work disappears? Is factory work good, bad? It's bad when it's there and good when it's not. Hmm...food for thought. Let's not take any wooden nickels boys and girls and take some personal responsibility for our own day-to-day choices.
On another note, yeah, the food industry needs to be regulated a lot fucking more than it is.
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