New York Plans to Ban Sale of Big Sizes of Sugary Drinks

• Darkist wrote on 2012-05-31 03:46
  http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/31/nyregion/bloomberg-plans-a-ban-on-large-sugared-drinks.html?_r=1
  
  Wow.
• Sekwaf wrote on 2012-05-31 03:56
  I like that they at least think they're making a step in the right direction. Of course, making sure these guys can't get an extra large soda with their 7 Big Macs isn't really going to solve much, and it's not even really the sugar you find in soda that's adding t obesity, it's just lack of activity. Also, rather than flat out banning this type of stuff, why not add an additional tax to it? I think if people had to choose between a 2oz. soda and a few more dollars, they'd actually choose the money pretty often.
• Darkist wrote on 2012-05-31 04:29

  Quote from Sekwaf;876666:

  I like that they at least think they're making a step in the right direction. Of course, making sure these guys can't get an extra large soda with their 7 Big Macs isn't really going to solve much, and it's not even really the sugar you find in soda that's adding t obesity, it's just lack of activity. Also, rather than flat out banning this type of stuff, why not add an additional tax to it? I think if people had to choose between a 2oz. soda and a few more dollars, they'd actually choose the money pretty often.

  
  
  You have a point there.
  
  But are you ok with that choice being taken away from you?
  
  This could get ugly.
• Sumpfkraut wrote on 2012-05-31 04:37
  They'll just get more drinks than before. This is just putting a veil over the problem really, a very silly piece of legislature.
  
  But maybe I missed something because I can't read the article, NY Times is being weird and doesn't recognise that my browser does actually accept cookies.
  
  

  Quote from Sekwaf;876666:

  it's not even really the sugar you find in soda that's adding t obesity, it's just lack of activity.

  
  Lack of activity doesn't translate into obesity without high calorie diet.
• Blassreiter wrote on 2012-05-31 04:43

  Quote from Sekwaf;876666:

  ...and it's not even really the sugar you find in soda that's adding t obesity, it's just lack of activity...

  
  
  True. Lack of activity is the biggest factor. I think that the majority of American society shuns physical activity or at least think it's "weird". Or I guess people are just lazy.
  
  How about banning soft drinks outright?? Better yet, make bottled water free. Bottled water is 10x better than soft drinks, as a matter of fact water is the only thing we should actually be drinking as organisms. Soft drinks are synthetic and contains lots of shit in it that is bad for our health in general. I don't know why they make a 2 liter soda bottle $1 while a gallon of Poland Spring like $3.99. So much for defeating obesity economics...
• Kazuni wrote on 2012-05-31 04:51
  so buy two?
• Piero wrote on 2012-05-31 04:53
  As if this would change anything.
• Xxazurekitex wrote on 2012-05-31 07:41
  Oh that's cool actually.
  Now if they could shut down fast food restaurants, we'd be golden.
• RebeccaBlack wrote on 2012-05-31 10:00

  Quote from Sumpfkraut;876690:

  They'll just get more drinks than before. This is just putting a veil over the problem really, a very silly piece of legislature.

  
  This, but also...
  
  It is definitely not a step in the right direction and it's restrictive to a very basic freedom of choice. It would be silly to fight for some freedom and then be like, "well, except that freedom, because that freedom is stupid and you shouldn't do it."
  
  The people around me were always joking about how they outlawed drugs, so cheeseburgers must be next as they can kill people too. If more things like this come along, the jokes might become a reality at least somewhere in America. And that's absurd.
  
  I am not for anything where one person causes harm to another, but if both sides agree to something (the seller wants to sell it and the buyer wants to buy it) and are happy with it, and it doesn't harm anyone but themselves (an underground exchange of counterfeit money, for example, would harm the next person the money is used on), it should always be legal.
• Spartaaaaa wrote on 2012-05-31 10:55
  As much as I dislike sugary drinks, I still don't like this law. Good health is achieved through personal responsibility, not legislation. And this piece of legislation will just be another useless, black market spawning waste of tax dollars.
• Osayidan wrote on 2012-05-31 11:12
  they should be taxed, not banned. All junk food and soft drinks should be taxed as necessary to make healthy food the cheaper option.
  It's fucking ridiculous that I can get a full meal at mcdonalds for less than some fruit at a grocery store.
• Rin wrote on 2012-05-31 13:36
  Don't think taxing would help out some people with near-empty wallets. After all, like Osayidan says, it's cheaper to get a full meal at McDonalds than fruit at a grocery store.
  
  If we're to propose taxing unhealthy food, at least have another idea to not make it harder for poor people to buy and make food.
• Osayidan wrote on 2012-06-02 01:15
  Tax on junk food (all of it, of any type) used to offset shipping costs of healthy food, gas prices is one of the main reasons fresh produce is more expensive than mcdonalds.
• whocares8128 wrote on 2012-06-04 14:32

  Quote from Kazuni;876701:

  so buy two?

  
  
  Okay. Now give me extra cup holders in my car (for people who drive) or an extra hand (for people who walk).
  
  Maybe someone will make a harness of some type that will allow a New Yorker to carry 3 extra 16 oz. cups hands-free. That way they can still carry around a Mega-Gulp-sized amount of fluid using only one hand.