New York Bans Soda?
More normal news from New York, where mayor Bloomberg is proposing a sanction on the sale of sugary beverages in the city. His proposal is to limit the size of such drinks old in restaurants, mobile food carts, movie theaters and more, and aims to fight obesity in a city where 58% of all adults are overweight or obese. This would effectively limit the sale of beverages to 0.5L containers, but does not affect diet sodas or dairy-based drinks. This is not the first initiative taken by Mayor Bloomberg to fight obesity: he's already banned trans fats in restaurants and has led a campaign to reduce salt intake. Just as this proposal is facing a lot of criticism, he also enforced a regulation which prevented smoking in bars and restaurants that was faced with a lot of criticism from both smokers and non-smokers. The claim was that the government should not force itself into private lives, and this exact same argument is now being used in the soda issue. Th...