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Re:Ultra-processed foods and the corporate capture of nutrition by bonoboTP on Friday December 18, 2020 @08:43AM (#25466951)
You also don't take into account that companies respond to taxes by reducing the amount of the taxed components in the products.
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Re:Ultra-processed foods and the corporate capture of nutrition by bumby on Friday December 18, 2020 @09:03AM (#25467131)
Every variant of a sugar tax I’ve seen has been at the consumer level. A “sugar added tax” would probably make more sense, but I think there would be little chance of that happening in the US because of lobbying effects. It would be interesting to see if Coke, for example, would shift to mainly sugar-free products (doubtful) but these are also correlated with obesity and its unclear why
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