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Re:Reducing sugar in packaged foods can prevent disease in m... by acchow on Saturday August 28, 2021 @10:54PM (#28343673)
Government can pass laws
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Re:Reducing sugar in packaged foods can prevent disease in m... by guerrilla on Saturday August 28, 2021 @11:33PM (#28343849)
Probably not so easily against a set of lobbies that includes some of the most powerful there are: agriculture, food and health insurance.
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Re:Reducing sugar in packaged foods can prevent disease in m... by bpodgursky on Saturday August 28, 2021 @11:56PM (#28343956)
You don't need lobbyists to explain this. Even in super-progressive SF and Seattle, there's immense popular resistance to a sugar tax on bottled drinks. The people like sugar, and the people are democracy.
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