Watch out: The food police have big plans for you

An influential policy organization wants restaurants to make drastic changes that would help control obesity.
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The RAND Corporation got its start specializing in doomsday-type analysis of national defense policy, coming up with the Mutual Assured Destruction strategy during the Cold War. This renowned Santa Monica, CA-based think tank has since branched out into other policy areas, including food. Few, if any, restaurant operators will like RAND recommends they do to combat the obesity epidemic. RAND analysts Debra Cohen and Lila Rabinovich published a paper in the latest issue of Preventing ...

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Wil Brawley (not verified)
on Aug 29, 2012

It's ironic that RAND helped craft policy to combat the Soviet threat yet is now pushing controls reminiscent of Soviet policy.

This type of control-oriented thinking is unfortunate at best, and frightening at worse.

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