The web is all a’wag over this interview. Below [via La Vida Locavore] is an excerpt from Maher’s rant:
Maher: We can’t have [single payor putting insurance companies out of business]! Health care is the biggest industry we’ve got. We need sick people and the food companies are doing their part to help.
Oh yes, they put the time in the lab to find out just how much fat, sugar, and salt to load into a Happy Meal to make it more like crack. Do you know that even our baby foods are now up to one third sugar? Only Americans could develop comfort food for somebody who’s already eating off a tit. I mean, what kind of people hooks babies on sugar? It’s not a mystery why even one in five four-year-olds is obese. Four-year-olds! The elephant in the room is your kid. Not only can’t Johnny read, he can’t see his #$%. If Al-Qaeda slipped something into our food that did that to us, well we would torture some Arabs and keep on eating.
