Exclusive: Co-author of analysis for WHO calls on government to control the food industry rather than being subservient to it
Archived version: https://archive.ph/56yF6
Exclusive: Co-author of analysis for WHO calls on government to control the food industry rather than being subservient to it
Archived version: https://archive.ph/56yF6
If everybody paid for their own health costs, wider seats on buses, new equipment for rescuers that can handle more weight - then fine. But they don’t, so society has an an interest in stopping people becoming fatter and fatter.
That’s not what this is, this is just taking more money from poor people. People aren’t going to change their entire lifestyle and get healthier because one of the cheapest things gets more expensive. They’ll either pay more and continue to get fat or switch to something else that’s cheap but equally unhealthy and continue to get fat.
Cheap sugar isn’t the problem, expensive healthier food is. Changing things so the sugar is also expensive is fucking stupid if the aim is to make people get healthier, even ignoring the fact that “making” people do anything is shitty anyway.