Posted on 01/19/2022 2:29:52 PM PST by simpson96
Determined to reduce childhood obesity, Mayor Lori Lightfoot moved Wednesday to stop Chicago restaurants from automatically serving kids meals with sugary, high-calorie drinks.
At a City Council meeting, Lightfoot introduced an ordinance that would prohibit Chicago restaurants from serving or marketing pop and other sugary drinks as the “default beverage” with kids meals.
Parents would still be able to request sugary drinks for their children.
Instead, the “default” beverages on kids meals would be:
• Water or sparkling water or flavored water with “no added natural or artificial sweeteners”
• Nonfat or 1% dairy milk containing “no more than 130 calories per container or serving offered for sale.”
• 100% fruit or vegetable juice or juice combined with water or carbonated water with no added sweeteners in a serving size of no more than 8 ounces.
• “Nondairy milk alternatives” that meet National School Lunch Program standards, contain “no added natural or artificial sweeteners” and have “no more than 130 calories per container or serving for sale.”
Every beverage “listed or displayed on a restaurant menu or in-store advertisement for children’s meals” would have to be one of those “default” beverages, the ordinance states. City inspectors would make sure of it.
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> Mayor Lori Lightfoot moved Wednesday to stop Chicago restaurants from automatically serving kids meals with sugary, high-calorie drinks. <
Well, that’s one way to cut down on all the gun violence in Chicago.
Or maybe not.
Well, crack will probably do it.
Stop the EBT cards. Should I have said that?
Just need to start allowing kids to smoke again.
easy... stop the free school lunch program!
This is the big deal in Chicago right now?
War on Fat?
Mayor, you have a chance to show your city that you get what’s going on. This choice is not going to move that needle of public opinion. What’s going on with those rebellious teachers who reject your directions to return to face to face learning?
Take them for a walk down the street. Then they can eat hospital food.
Didn’t some nutjob mayor in NYC come up with an idea like that a few years back/
Nobody even thinks anything about government interfering with every aspect of our lives anymore.
These shitlib rats just love to “crack down,” don’t they? Turns their inner totalitarian loose, it does. They’re all only a couple of steps from mass murder, if only they could.
It would be a smaller target.
BAN aspartame.
That alone will do it (oh, and stop attending that coven you frequent...)
Glad there’s nothing else to worry about in Chicago…for example, outrageous murder rates…
Now that the govt oversees healthcare, diet control is the govt’s business. Eventually everything you eat will be recorded and the govt will change your diet for you if you are enjoying yourself too much.
Bloomturd hated big soft drink cups
So parents can’t regulate how many their calories their kiddos consume so the government is going to step up and take over that responsibility? Sounds more like a socialistic society doesn’t it?
Wasn’t that an X-Files episode? The monster’s saliva dissolved the body fat, then the monster sucked it out of the victim’s body. Lightfoot could pass as the monster, with a minimum of makeup.
"Nothing pop", as the children call it.
I dunno - I think she should start with the child killings first then work her way up…
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