Britain’s Life Expectancy Crisis: The Negligence of the Addiction Economy

Addiction economy Thought for Today - Britain has the worst life expctancy in Western Europe.

The Office of National Statistics say the obesity epidemic and the burden of preventable illness to blame for reduced life expectancy, alongside excess deaths in the pandemic.

So what more evidence do we want that The Addiction Economy should be stopped in its tracks. Unhealthy foods, cigarettes and alcohol, together with a Conservative government that wanted to give us the 'freedom to choose' are directly responsible for this.

The Nanny Statists tell us that by choosing these products, which are killing us, that we are exercising our free will, and so any constraint on that ability is curtailing that freedom. But, sorry to say, we aren’t making a free choice, the choices are being made for us by large corporations who control our environment so fundamentally that we don't have the freedom to choose options which contribute to our flourishing not our ill health.

It is in fact a Negligent State which hides behind this shallow argument.