Parents who feed thier children processed food should be brought up on child abuse charges.

[redqueen]

Agree or disagree?

What other things do you think we should be able to press child abuse charges for?

If parents let their kids stay up late?

How about if they let them watch TV shows we don't like? It "rots your brain", after all.

C'mon... I know you loungers can think up some other "issues" to get all outragey about.

[PVnRT]

1. Or maybe someone was using hyperbole to make a point.

Whatever, I'm an elitist, hypocritical closet freeper.

[Shell Beau]

6. People take stuff and run with it.

[Shell Beau]

2. If the kid is happy, healthy, and being taken care of, who the

hell am I to tell another parent how to parent their child?

[redqueen]

5. I refuse to socialize with you.

*turns nose up*

[Shell Beau]

11. Did your kid just eat mac-n-cheese out of a box???

Off to jail you go!!! :P

[Debi]

63. I'm SO calling CPS on you!

:yoiks:

[XemaSab]

3. Letting kids ski, ride in a car, swim, or go to school without a helmet

:crazy:

[Rabrrrrrr]

8. letting kids ride a bike without a cell phone, knee and elbow pads, helmet, fireproof suit,

and everything else the yuppie fuck parents demand their kids wear to ride a bike nowadays.

[LaurenG]

35. Lol

:rofl:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

4. Only if they let their kids get fat

[redqueen]

12. What percentage of body fat should trigger CPS involvement? (nt)

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

32. 3.14159265358979323846264

[redqueen]

33. ...

:rofl:

[Steerpike]

59. 3.14159265

I love pi

[Symarip]

7. TV prosecution isn't a half bad idea (nt)

[redqueen]

10. I enjoy mocking the mock-worthy.

Yessir, I really do.

[Symarip]

13. :kisses:

[Rabrrrrrr]

9. If a parent intentionally injected a child with cancer, would you find that abusive?

So what's the difference if it's done over the course of 10 or 20 years?

We'd get all righteous indignation if a parent refused medical treatment for a child (remember the faith-based family of a year or so ago?) - why not equal righteous indignation if the parents are intentionally making their kids sick?

[geardaddy]

18. Munchausen's by proxy?

[Rabrrrrrr]

23. reverse Munchhausen's By Proxy - instead of giving unneeded medicine, one makes the kid sick

and pretends that one is not making the kid sick, but is somehow remaining pure of being the kind of sick, un-Democratic elitist who cooks fresh food in healthy ways.

[geardaddy]

25. That's it.

*Reverse* Munchhausen's By Proxy.

*taps forehead*

[Lost in CT]

51. Twinkie by Hostess? nt

[La Lioness Priyanka]

14. this is ridiculous hyperbole. i dont think cooking with fresh food is elitist

almost ALL countries and cultures do it. where i grew up people think that cooking out of boxes and cans is elitist.

[Shell Beau]

15. It was a comment made in the other thread by someone else.

I think it will be interesting to see if people tend to agree. Some others already did.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

17. i wasnt really addressing the comment at redqueen. i think either way its hyperbole

to always feed your child processed food is not best parenting however even organic fried chicken will eventually make someone an unhealthy body weight. i wish people could discuss food without goign into extremes in either direction.

[Shell Beau]

19. Here lately it seems we can't discuss anything without being

argumentative. (and by "we" I don't mean you and me)

[La Lioness Priyanka]

22. i think food is actually an important discussion and i wish people wouldnt be so weird about it

[krispos42]

48. Is the organic fried chicken breaded with crushed organic corn flakes?

:hide:

[tigereye]

16. did someone say that? Or is this just an exercise?

:D


Lots of folks on the planet are lucky to have anything to eat, let alone vilifying folks for the choices that they make. People who are constantly outraged about something that has little to do with them need to move on to more constructive pursuits...

[Lost in CT]

53. Somebody did say that... and no it wasn't me...

I did say I don't socialize with adults who drink Naural Light beer and eat boxed mac and cheese... but thats a horse of a different problem.

[tigereye]

62. yeah, most of my friends like micro-brews...

[cherish44]

20. I disagree. However I do believe women who don't breastfeed their kids should be.

:yoiks:

oh and let me be the first to say


IBTL

[Shell Beau]

21. I know you must be kidding about the breastfeeding.

[Lucian]

24. I think that's a little extreme.

Instead of bringing up child abuse charges, someone should educate parents who feed their kids processed foods the benefits of cooking with fresh ingredients and how inexpensive it can be.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

27. and easy. i cook almost everyday for lisa and me after work.

[Lyric]

26. Food bank food is usually processed food.

Are we going to arrest people for feeding their kids the stuff the food bank gave them? 'Cause if we are, we might as well start ripping away every single poor child from every impoverished family in the country.

:shrug:

[redqueen]

28. Yes! Arrest them!

Poor people are stupid!

So what if their parents didn't teach them? Tough titty! They need to learn and if they don't... well... we take their kids!

It's only right. ;)

[Lyric]

29. You might as well start with mine, then.

One week of listening to him practice his violin and the state will be begging me to take him back.

:P

[AirBaud]

30. Minor form of child endangerment maybe

But not child abuse.

[KamaAina]

31. Only if it's processed by Olive Garden

:P

[jobycom]

34. Any parent making below $75K a year should be prosecuted for child abuse.

Studies show that children from households below poverty are more likely to develop cancer, diabetes, and even blindness than children from more prosperous families. So somewhere around $75K gross family income should be the limit. Anything less is gross and willful endangerment, at the very least.

[OmahaBlueDog]

37. +1

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

38. Um...that's almost what our household income is and we eat healthy, organic food

So do the dogs and cats, and we live in a VERY expensive part of the country.

In plenty of places in the US, that's a good living.

[jobycom]

40. Takes a lot of money to raise children safely.

Children from higher-income families have fewer accidents and illnesses and a better chance of survival than from families who make less. We should really draw the line around $90K, but I was willing to sacrifice a few children for the sake of fairness to the layabout parents who make less. After all, for some of them it really isn't their fault--although why children should have to suffer for their parents' failings, I don't know.

[Danger Mouse]

45. Do you know how much money it costs to raise a child?

[Lost in CT]

54. It's a lot cheaper than they say... in the summer the pay for themselves by picking tomatoes.

(before anyone attacks me that was my dad's threat every may.... I'm going to send you to do some fieldwork and get off your lazy ass)

[pipi_k]

60. Well at least you knew you'd have a job and what it would be...

My mother would always threaten to drop us (my two sisters and me) off at the local orphanage, where our fates would be unknown.

I almost wish she'd have threatened to ship us off to one of the local farms to milk cows or pick tobacco or something...




:+

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

57. Yes, it'd be expensive

But there are plenty of places we could cut back and manage to feed it healthy food. And as I said, we live in a very expensive area. The amount of money we make would go much further in most of the US. Definitely enough to comfortably raise a kid or two. I think having more than 2 or 3 kids is unethical, anyway.

It's a moot point anyway, because neither of us have any desire to have a kid.

[LeftyMom]

69. I've never made that, and mine eats well.

:shrug:

Of course we don't eat meat. Every time I see the price of organic chicken or whatever, I'm very glad to be vegan.

[Debi]

64. Shut up 'til you have a child to raise

until then your opinion means naught!














:hide:

[petronius]

36. When they do the physical fitness challenges in elementary school,

any child who fails to qualify for the Presidential Physical Fitness Award should be immediately transferred to foster care and their parents arrested...

[WildEyedLiberal]

39. LOL WUT

[elshiva]

44. That's a great picture, WEL.

:rofl:

[ashling]

41. How about if they smoked around them?

:shrug:

[mwooldri]

42. Let's start way before then. Licence the parents to have sex.

Yep we all know where babies come from...

So just licence sex. Even more controversial: license solo-sex too. No wanking off without a licence.

That'll help solve some of the problems: people will be educated as to what to do when their offspring comes along 9 months later...

If you want to go the IVF route, you'll still need to be licensed.

:hide:

(serious point: sure we could eat better diets. But sometimes the kids won't eat anything but the processed foods. And what about infants and formula - that's "processed" for sure, some mothers can't breastfeed - even in the Olive Garden. Staying up late is definitely a problem plus watching too much TV - again a problem but definitely not child-abuse worthy.)

[Rabrrrrrr]

50. "Kids won't eat anything but the processed foods" - bullshit. Pure bullshit.

That's a total lack of parenting, and a total cop-out.

It's totally and utterly untrue.

[mwooldri]

43. OK, who's picketing McDonalds tomorrow? nt

[Danger Mouse]

46. Fuck no! They should be executed immediately. ZERO TOLERANCE!!!

[TreasonousBastard]

47. Anyone who has kids should automatically...

be brought up on child abuse charges.

Just in case...

[Lost in CT]

55. I agree better safe than sorry. nt

[flvegan]

49. Until we somehow teach nutrition in this country, I disagree.

I can get "outragey" about how the average driver in this country knows what gas pump to use to fill their car up but can't properly navigate a grocery.

Fuel your car: Pass. Fuel your body (and the bodies of your kids): Fail.

[Mutley]

52. I had chicken soup from a can for dinner.

It was delicious.

:9

[LeftyMom]

56. Almost all foods are processed.

Very few foods are eaten raw in their whole form, and of course once you get into any cooking, chopping, peeling, juicing, grinding, etc, then the resulting food is processed.

"Processed" isn't really a bad thing in and of itself. Many foods only become edible or are most nutritious after they are processed to some extent, or can be put to many more uses after some processing.

[pipi_k]

61. You have a good point there...

Once you do anything at all to a raw food to change its structure or state of rawness, technically, it's been processed.

Some foods we don't want to eat in their unprocessed state.

Who the hell wants to bite into raw chicken? :puke:



and even an apple...peel the skin off, and technically it's been processed.

[Marrah_G]

58. Err which thread provoked this?

[JitterbugPerfume]

65. sometimes all that is needed is education

and sometimes all that is needed is a swift kick, but for the poor the answer just is not so easy

[BarenakedLady]

66. Lock me up!

RIGHT FUCKING NOW!!!!

:rofl:

[AwakeAtLast]

67. Fine the schools, too!

The stuff that comes out a typical school cafeteria is much worse than a little Kraft Mac n Cheese. :puke:

[uppityperson]

68. Parents who misspell "their" should be locked up.