Posted on 12/28/2020 11:01:40 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
Supermarkets in England are to be barred from displaying unhealthy food and drinks at checkouts or using them in buy one, get one free offers, as part of a proposed government crackdown on obesity.
The planned restrictions were praised by health campaigners as a “bold first step” in Downing Street’s promised campaign against obesity.
The checkout restrictions will apply to other sales-boosting locations such as the entrances to stores or at the end of aisles. Similar rules will apply for websites, banning sales links to unhealthy foods on places such as homepages, or at checkout or payment pages. Restaurants will no longer be able to offer free refills of sugary drinks.
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I understand the impulse-buying thing, but if people are really dead-set on buying unhealthy snacks, won’t they just be able to get them on one of the aisles?
a “bold first step” in Downing Street’s promised campaign against obesity.
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I thought keeping people from earning a living was the first step against “obesity”..no money, no food, loose weight. The government weight lost program guaranteed to work and lower the population at the same time. /s
Have them in a locked cabinet behind the counter.
Forbid advertising.
Require pictures of morbidly obese diabetics on every package.
TAX heavily!
Only 100 calorie sized packaging (but NOT allowed to call them “fun” sized)
Stern Warnings from the Surgeon General printed on each package.
Then put Marijuana-laced goodies where the candies and chips used to be. If you are in California, add a colorful display rack for recreational Quaaludes.
Did Mikey Bloomberg move there to run that WELFARE country? Cause that’s the only way gov can get away with that BS!
Damn... and I thought removing Cadbury’s vending machine from London underground stations was bad.
Packages of boccoli and kale at check out stands. Guaranteed to boost sales revenue!
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Let the State tell you what to eat, think, wear...
No inch thick sliced white bread....bacon...cheese nor eggs.
Good.
Have to save room for Bangers and Mash, Blood Pudding, Bubble and Squeak, Devilled Kidneys, Faggots, Greasy Fish and Chips, Jellied Eels, Pie and Mash, Rag Pudding, Toad-in-the-Hole, Treacle Tart, and, last but not least, Haggis.
That stuff is much healthier.
Stupid brits allowing this to happen.
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