Posted on 05/30/2012 7:26:28 PM PDT by John W
New York City plans to enact a far-reaching ban on the sale of large sodas and other sugary drinks at restaurants, movie theaters and street carts, in the most ambitious effort yet by the Bloomberg administration to combat rising obesity.
The proposed ban would affect virtually the entire menu of popular sugary drinks found in delis, fast-food franchises and even sports arenas, from energy drinks to pre-sweetened iced teas. The sale of any cup or bottle of sweetened drink larger than 16 fluid ounces — about the size of a medium coffee, and smaller than a common soda bottle — would be prohibited under the first-in-the-nation plan, which could take effect as soon as next March.
The measure would not apply to diet sodas, fruit juices, dairy-based drinks like milkshakes, or alcoholic beverages; it would not extend to beverages sold in grocery or convenience stores.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Is Bloomberg a mayor or a dictator? Getting hard to tell the difference...
Remember the Seinfeld Episode about the Water Saving Shower Heads?
You know what's good for me? Freedom. Freedom is what's good for me.
So can people buy two medium sizes at once - if not, will they get their hand stamped so they can’t buy one medium size and then come back and buy another - where does it end?........
Keep it up, Bloomberg. I say more power to you. They elected you, right? Keep it up until the 10-15% of the populace who still has their sanity decides it’s time for a violent overthrow.
Probably not. Salt on the rim...
LOL! "First they came for my Big Gulp..."
Actually, 1970 is the precise year the law was passed banning cigarette advertising from TV and Radio. There were at least a few people then who said exactly what the hell was going to happen here.
They were soundly ridiculed.
This is pathetic.
I'll have the < wink, wink> diet Coke.
After that works for a couple of years, Bloomberg will have the police train dogs to sniff sugar.
Drone strike?
Next they’ll make soft drink makers liable for damages for any customer who gets diabetes or a heart attack.
Do it Libs. Create another black market that you can skim money from you human pieces of crap.
Keep it up and don’t come asking me, in Tennessee, for money when everyone tells you to shove it or leaves NY. And if you want to use union violence to force people, then don’t whine when you get shot.
Go to hell you left wing retarded morons.
Just how and why in hell does a city administration get to decide what product a person can buy! Good God Almighty wtf have we come to?
Let’s ban liberals! Globally!!
Unbelievable. Just as ridiculous as the soda ban, is that fruit juices and diet drinks aren’t included. Mega sized fruit juices are pretty much just as bad as soda in terms of sugar/fructose content. Diet drinks aren’t much better. I can’t wait for my local gov’t to pull a similar silly-assed stunt.
What’s incredible is how little resistance and anger this insulting, moronic law will provoke - just like the hundreds of other legal and bureaucratic impositions our politicians inflict on us these days. People get the government they deserve. We’re devolving into a nation of baffled, uncomprehending children.
Wouldn't want to ban the 40's, would we?
My ‘47 Chateau d’Yquem is not a crime scene. Yet.
Thanks for the ping!
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