American Food Nazis

The American Food Nazis are coming for you.
The goose step of bi-partisan Big Government has come to North Carolina.  Free speech rights are violated when the government tries to shut down a man giving advice on what foods are good to eat. 

Food Nazis  -  “When did it become illegal to tell people to eat meats and vegetables?”

• Bill of Rights free speech rights violated by bi-partisan Big Government in North Carolina.
• Neither political party does jack about abolishing intrusive government agencies, government required licences or repealing insane laws.

Steven Cooksey says all he wanted to do was help other diabetics get healthy, but a North Carolina agency tried to censor his online healthy food advice column, saying he was not a licensed dietitian.

Cooksey filed a lawsuit Tuesday in federal court, saying the state violated his free speech rights.

“When did it become illegal to tell people to eat meats and vegetables?” Cooksey said in an interview with The Associated Press. “How is it illegal to tell people not to eat grains? We’re talking about healthy eating. This is wrong.”

The North Carolina Board of Dietetics/Nutrition and several board members are named as defendants. The lawsuit was filed on Cooksey’s behalf by the Institute for Justice, a national civil liberties group.

Charla Burill, the agency’s executive director, said she couldn’t comment because the board hadn’t received the complaint. But the Board of Dietetics/Nutrition said it was illegal for anyone without a government-issued dietician’s license to offer diet advice.

Cooksey’s lawyers’ said the advice is protected speech, adding that the state “went through 19 pages” of Cooksey’s online writings with a red pen, indicating on a line-by-line basis what he may and may not say.

“This content-based censorship of Cooksey’s speech violates the First Amendment,” the lawsuit said.

Cooksey, 51, of Stanley, N.C., says he was hospitalized in 2009 after his blood sugar spiked. At the time, Cooksey, who works for a medical equipment company, weighed more than 240 pounds. By his own account, he was in bad physical shape; he ate poorly and didn’t exercise.  During his hospitalization, he was diagnosed with Type II diabetes — a chronic condition caused by a problem in the way the body makes or uses insulin. Cooksey says he was told by a doctor that he would probably be insulin-dependent for life.

For him, he decided the healthiest diet was “a high-fat/low-carbohydrate diet of the sort that Stone Age people ate prior to agriculture. This diet is sometimes called a Paleolithic or caveman diet,” he said. It includes ordinary, unprocessed or minimally-processed foods such as beef, pork, chicken, eggs, leafy green vegetables and butter. He said he ate nuts and fruits sparingly.

Within a month of reducing his carbohydrate intake, Cooksey says his blood sugar normalized.

“Everyone who does what I do improves their health markers. Every one of them. It works,” he said.

During a question and answer session, Cooksey disagreed. A few days later, he says he received a telephone call from the state agency that someone from the seminar filed a complaint against him, saying he was acting as an unlicensed dietitian.  Heaven forbid!

They ordered him to take down the part of his website where he offered his life-coaching services.    (CBS News)

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Bi-Partisan Big Government is frightened to death of real Freedom.

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$1,000,000 to get a taxi license in New York.
Almost anywhere in America bi-Partisan Big Government makes it illegal for you to slap a taxi sign on your car, go into business for yourself, create jobs, wealth and support your family.  (Reuters News)
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Big Government is totally bi-partisan.  Neither political party will abolish intrusive government licenses or agencies.  Both Democrats and Republicans want to control your every move.  In their insane Orwellian world you must come to them, bow down and kiss their asses for the right to work and make money.