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| Thread ID: 141896 | 2016-03-18 01:27:00 | Soft drinks with added Sugar. | mzee (3324) | PC World Chat |
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| 1417668 | 2016-03-18 01:27:00 | To put a tax on the sugar content of soft drinks is nonsense, people will still buy it. The answer is quite simple. The allowable quantity of added sugar should be fixed by law at a certain amount per Litre of liquid. In the case of 100% fruit squash the natural sugar content would be ignored, but the same rule would apply. The penalty to the manufacturer for exceeding the sugar quota would be to remove the Brand from the market for 3 months. If they did it again to any of their products they would be taken off the market for good. |
mzee (3324) | ||
| 1417669 | 2016-03-18 01:32:00 | No government will have the balls to enforce such legislation. | Zippity (58) | ||
| 1417670 | 2016-03-18 02:01:00 | What is it with these nutter “Health Freaks” that gives them the idea that they should be able to dictate what the rest of us eat or drink? | B.M. (505) | ||
| 1417671 | 2016-03-18 02:10:00 | Lets all jump on the bandwagon & blame sugar for everything.... its even the cause of the dairy farm crisis & middle east wars. for we all know there is no other possible 'food' that makes us fat. And fruit sugar is a magical fairly land sugar that we can ignore, for some reason . btw, fruit juice just as bad as coke I stopped eating sugar years back, I now cant stand it. I wont drink coffee with sugar in, it tastes awefull (to me), cant even image drinking sugar flavoured coke V red bull etc Stop eating it for long enough & you start to hate the taste of sugary food & drink. But , somehow Im now fatter than ever, getting fatter. Despite no sugar, despite no butter etc . Despite getting more exercise than before. Must be act of god.....perhaps its the baby jesus in my fat tummy Or maybe its my love of bread & carby foods. So tax bread. And all carb high foods, pasta, oats. Plenty of sugar in fruit, tax those as well , they make you just as fat as a few lollies. Carbs make us just as fat. Its how much you eat , not what you eat. Why is that not obvious to some people ??? |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1417672 | 2016-03-18 02:13:00 | Why not just tax fat people! That would make them lose weight. | Richard (739) | ||
| 1417673 | 2016-03-18 02:36:00 | The answer is quite simple. The allowable quantity of added sugar should be fixed by law at a certain amount per Litre of liquid. It'd never work, Coke with less sugar would never sell. And the Stevia version has a horrible aftertaste. Energy drinks would not be able to even be sold. Maybe it needs to be like emission control laws, the average sugar level across a companies products needs to be steadily reduced over time to reach an overall target. They could still sell high sugar drinks as long as they sold enough healthier alternatives to bring the average down. That'd put the onus and cost onto the big companies research and marketing teams. In any case we all know eating and drinking too much of anything is bad for us, tax laws are unlikely to suddenly make us more health conscious. We'll just find somewhere else to get our calories. I could even see people adding their own sugar to drinks, will they tax bags of sugar in the supermarket as well? It's good that governments want to do something about peoples health, it's unfortunate they resort to the default government option of "just slap a tax on it". They've taxed the hell out of cigarettes and still it doesn't seem to have made much difference to those who can least afford to smoke, except they have less money now. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1417674 | 2016-03-18 02:43:00 | I'm not a nutter health freak, I just know what I should and shouldn't eat. Whether I do or don't is my problem, not that of a nation, or is that far too radical? It's more than just sugar (carbs, fat, or salt) that causes some to have health problems. In moderation it's fine, I just don't happen to have a very sweet tooth. As kids we drank enough cordial that would have the sugar police chasing our parents. We were far from fat, then again we were very active. We probably ate less than what the average dinner plate would have on it now and I think we would have been the normal family. We also had homemade puddings 5 nights a week. I wouldn't expect any working Mum to do the same every night now, although I mostly did it when I was a working Mum When I see people, not just the kids, with a 1.5 or 2 litre bottle of soft drink that they are apparently going to consume on their own, I cringe. Those plastic bottles of water that caused concern with some a little while back would be far better. . |
Marnie (4574) | ||
| 1417675 | 2016-03-18 02:53:00 | At this stage it is cheaper to buy a bottle of fizzy drink than buy the equivalent in milk. Maybe they should put a tax on unhealthy food and drink and use the tax to subsidize healthy foods like fruit, vegetables and milk. | Bobh (5192) | ||
| 1417676 | 2016-03-18 03:01:00 | ................ But , somehow Im now fatter than ever, getting fatter. Then give up eating white bread also :) |
Zippity (58) | ||
| 1417677 | 2016-03-18 03:58:00 | Then give up eating white bread also :) That's another story Zip. lurking. |
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