ah-hem!
Always some socialist group trying to control your choices and freedoms. They just keep slipping away, don't they?
Why aren't these "lawyers" being arrested for racketeering? These jokers need to be in prison.
Soda really isn't necessary at school, but I'm tired of the sue-happy buzzards glomming onto a rather benign issue.
The curriculum in our schools does far more than create obesity or tooth decay.
The only health these bloodsuckers are interested in is their financial health.
God forbid if they find a link between obese parents and obese children.
Yeah, the thing about suing firearms companies didn't work out so now they are going after soft drink co. I guess the tobacco industry is just about dry when it comes to law suits, the lawyers had to do something to justify their existence.
"75% of all American high schools have contracts and share some profits with a soda company, 65% of all middle schools do and 30% of elementary schools."
The hidden agenda. All financial power must be invested in the government, to increase their power to tax.
Socialists want everything funded through the government. Capitalists that pour money into the public arena, like Walmart and Coke, are always vilified.
That may be what it takes.
And if it end up like it did for tobacco, the states will end up with a huge amount of money to pi** away on everything except what it is intend for.
I wonder how long it will be before the libs call for laws banning people under 18/21 from buying/possessing/consuming soft drinks (sugary, sugar-free, caffeinated, and decaffeinated)...I guess technically that would also be applied to coffee and tea. Just imagine this following future sign at Starbucks :
"MUST BE 21 OR OLDER TO ENTER STARBUCKS. PLEASE SLIDE NATIONAL ID CARD THROUGH NATIONAL ID CARD SCANNER FOR ENTRY. DOOR WILL NOT OPEN UNLESS LEGAL AGE IS VERIFIED."
Yawn. These are the same wackos waging war against theater popcorn, Mexican food, French Fries, etc.