Exclusive: Co-author of analysis for WHO calls on government to control the food industry rather than being subservient to it

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

  • Gamoc@lemmy.world
    31·
    6 months ago

    And I don’t think the government should be deciding it for us, punishing people who dare to eat or drink sugar with higher prices, nor have yet another avenue of tax to funnel into their pockets.

    • the_third@feddit.de
      22·
      6 months ago

      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.

      • Gamoc@lemmy.world
        31·
        6 months ago

        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.