Sweetened beverages are safe when used according to common sense.
“How can you put a 10 percent tax on Coke, when you have a smoothie or juice drink with the same amount of sugar that has no tax? That argument, I think, is hard to overcome, and points to the need for a move to set a maximum to the amount of calories in any drink per 100 millilitres, and a warning if a drink goes over a certain amount of your allotted daily intake.” [Al Jazeera]
Let me say the obvious: how about we let people make up their own minds about what they want to eat and drink? And think?
Yep. And our kids?
More government bureaucrats basing public policies on junk science and political agendas.