Posted on 09/26/2020 7:02:30 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Berkeley’s City Council has passed an ordinance that will remove unhealthy food from grocery store checkout aisles. The ordinance is the first of its kind in the U.S., supporters said.
The new policy will require retailers larger than 2,500 square feet to stock healthy food at the register and in areas where customers wait in line, instead of items like chips, soda and candy. It forbids food items with 5 grams of added sugars and 200 milligrams of sodium, chewing gum and mints with added sugars, and beverages with added sugars or artificial sweeteners. In Berkeley, the policy will affect stores like Safeway, Monterey Market, Whole Foods and Berkeley Bowl.
The ordinance, sponsored by Councilmembers Kate Harrison and Sophie Hahn, passed unanimously at the Council’s Sept. 22 meeting. It will go into effect on March 1, 2021, with enforcement beginning Jan. 1, 2022.
The ordinance is “really good behavioral economics,” Harrison said in the meeting. “It facilitates better choices for consumers but does not limit what they can buy.”
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(Excerpt) Read more at berkeleyside.com ...
This is an admission liberal Democrats need laws to stop them from making bad food choices.
Newspeak at its finest
So long fast food. You’re next.
I have to laugh at these ass-clowns. If they want government to micromanage every move and decision they make, so be it. It’s their choice to live to live in tyranny. It’s my choice to never go to Berkeley again or any other stinkin’ leftist hell hole.
Of course the Supermarkets put that kind of food at the checkout. Supermarkets are heavily invested in psychology.
Well....maybe America will start to slim down now.
Self discipline is not a strong trait among Liberals.
Headline:
Anti-Fascists Ban Candy
—high on the list of pressing California problems—(sarc)—
Micromanage much?
Pssssstttttt. These items are still available outside berzerklee proper. Pass it on. But keep it on the down low.
LOL...It’s not just the kids...All the time, you see adults waiting in line and their eyes do nothing but greedily scan the candy racks...
> The ordinance is “really good behavioral economics,” Harrison said in the meeting. <
A more appropriate description would be ‘fascist food control’.
And what’s to prevent a store from placing candy bars very near, but not at, a checkout line? Nothing. So I suppose Berkeley’s next move will be to appoint a group of Candy Commissars.
I, myself, don’t even mess with those candy bars along the checkout...
(I get mine from the candy aisle in those BIG bags!!!!!)
What amazes me is that with so many problems, this is what they focus on. So much smoke and mirrors, showmanship, posturing fakeness.
Future conversation at the county jail:
“What are you in here for?”
“Sugar. Soda, Juicy Fruit, cookies...”
People there are voting to have themselves live in a gulag. Good for them just keep it there and away from me. Will the noninvited dwellers there stay without candy?
So, instead of grabbing one candy bar at the checkout, people will have to go down an aisle and buy a whole bag of candy.
True story. A nearby county sheriff brought two six packs of beer to the checkout counter. The cashier said the twelve pack was cheaper. The sheriff said he couldn’t drink a whole twelve pack so purchased the two six packs.
I went to school with the sheriff. Once a moron, always a moron.
Bezerkly. Who cares? The worst city in the worst state in the nation. You have to work hard for that distinction.
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