You There! Step Away From The Muffin!
New York City jail inmates are being forced to eat unsweetened muffins, are deprived of butter and are only allowed to drink skim milk. This, says the city Department of Corrections, is for the inmates own good.
The overhauled menu at the city's jails includes no sweets, no butter and only skim milk. The Department of Corrections wants healthy alternatives to traditional jailhouse grub.
A breakfast might include fresh fruit, whole wheat bread and wheat flakes. A sample dinner: pepper steak, rice and steamed carrots.
"These people are in our custody, and they don't get to make their own choices," said Department of Correction Commissioner Martin Horn. "We have a moral obligation to make sound choices for them."
That means unsweetened muffins, which are expected to replace the wickedly sweet ones for the roughly 14,000 inmates in the jail system.
"We have no choice but to eat what they give us. It's bland — so I guess that's healthy," said Christopher Alberici, a 40-year-old inmate.
If all of this sounds depressingly familiar, that's because it is. The same thing is happening in Carmel, New York with the inmates clients at senior citizen centers. Also on the streets of New York City itself. Heck, it's even happening in the House of Representatives itself. The increasingly authoritarian nanny mentality of the left which declares that government stay out of people's bedrooms demands access to people's refrigerator. They will make your food choices for you, thank you very much.
Taking the jail situation to the logical conclusion, soon they will be limiting jail food to whole grain bread and spring water. And how long will it be before the mandates extend to the rest of the inmates citizens of New York City?
(I'm not particularly worried about what jail inmates are being fed, incidentally. I am more concerned about the mentality that is driving this sort of thing.)
By syn, Monday, 18 February , 2008 @ 8:43 am
It is strange to live among progressive Liberals who actually like it when the government intrudes upon their eating choices but don’t ever say a word about those infected with the Super-HIV strain of AIDS who go from one sex club to the next sans condom.
What is stranger than that is actually looking at the bodies of those who like the goverment intruding upon people’s eating habits; is it really healthy to have thighs smaller than the size of your wrists, or knee caps bigger than the size of your head?
By Maggie, Monday, 18 February , 2008 @ 12:34 pm
(I’m not particularly worried about what jail inmates are being fed, incidentally. I am more concerned about the mentality that is driving this sort of thing.)
Yeah, Gaius … Just what we need fit (with the weights and gym equipment) and healthy criminals …
As to the nanny mentality, we’ve all seen this coming … I just don’t understand how it has been allowed to get this far without loud vocal resistance.
Everything today’s government does in these stupid cases is purely purely predicated on nothing more than junk science and the opinion of some self-righteous meddling jerk , with little more than a [conservative] sprinkle of actual science thrown in. (Good example, Global Warming … the actual term "Climate Change" is a "No duh!" because the climate is ALWAYS changing … but stupid people who can’t think for themselves just can’t seem to grasp that fact on their own.)
Studies TODAY saying something isn’t good for you are completely contradicted six months from now.