A Day of Defiance—and Donuts
It's time to double down on National Donut Day. As Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. begins pushing his Make America Healthy Again campaign, we suggest a protest against the idea, growing in our nation's capital, that we can't have nice things when it comes to food.
National Donut Day, the first Friday in June, began in 1938 to honor the Salvation Army volunteers who fried donuts for troops in World War I. It continued peacefully until 2010 when our organization, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, urged Americans to turn it into a day of opposition against government intrusions into our lives. These decrees ranged from 'voluntary' salt-reduction guidelines to calorie-label mandates for restaurant menus and bans on Happy Meals. Our suggested form of protest: Eat two donuts, one for yourself and one for your freedom.
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