Cali Wants to Limit Your Kid's Soda Consumption
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blu3bird
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Well honestly, some parents aren't very good at parenting and could use a little guidance.
I don't see these regulations as necessarily a bad thing. What's wrong with having healthy kids?
Herb & Suds
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I'm good with a village helping raise these kids
captainmorgan
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I drank lots of pop when I was a kid but back then it wasn't high fructose corn syrup and artificial sweeteners, both of which are very bad for your health. Maybe the question should be why does our government allows corporations to poison us and get rich doing it?
captainmorgan
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I also hope that once this country purges tRUmp and his criminal supporters they sanction Russia into the stone age.
UncleBuck
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I think we should grant immediate amnesty to all here illegally
londonfog
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Reagan did it in 86. Time to do again for qualified immigrants ….meaning no violent felons
Herb & Suds
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Cowboys and vigilantes often do
Fogdog
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So do rapists, pedophiles and serial murderers.
Rob Roy
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Sounds a little prohibitionesque.
Buddha2525
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What do they mean by soda? Sugary drinks? Like punch? Does it need fizz? Do flavored mineral water like LaCroix count? Can we buy seltzer, kool aid, and sugar to make our own? If one were to buy essential oils, dates in a dehydrator and a vitamix to make date sugar, and a soda stream, would that flag CPS to come by daily to prick kids fingers?.How will this work?
Tangerine_
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This bill does sound a little harsh but without details of the bill its impossible to give an objective opinion.
So what...when the kids finish a little league game and go to Pizza Hut they must drink water or milk? I dunno about this one.
More education. Moderation. I can even get inline with taxing high sugar drinks but rarely does an all or nothing approach work.
Then again, we wouldn't have this issue if the US didn't have an obesity epidemic.
Education and moderation should be sufficient but....
So what...when the kids finish a little league game and go to Pizza Hut they must drink water or milk? I dunno about this one.
More education. Moderation. I can even get inline with taxing high sugar drinks but rarely does an all or nothing approach work.
Then again, we wouldn't have this issue if the US didn't have an obesity epidemic.
Education and moderation should be sufficient but....
the bill passed and is awaiting for jerry brown signature currently, parents are allowed to change the default..but this is where it becomes slippery slope..first it was soda tax..then it was throwing away childrens lunches in the garbage to shame for parents who didn't pay..this is where government overreaches..but solution for our kids getting shot up at school?
total 'let them eat cake' legislation. perhaps we should work on more pressing issues like a living wage, health for the 30M who are uninsured and college for all (which we used to have years ago)?California Becomes First State to Pass Healthy Restaurant Kids’ Meal Bill
https://cspinet.org/news/california-becomes-first-state-pass-healthy-restaurant-kids’-meal-bill-20180822
California’s legislature last night passed the nation’s first statewide healthy kids’ meal bill. The legislation ensures that healthier beverages like water and milk are the default drinks with all restaurant children’s meals, rather than soda or other sugary drinks. While parents may still request a different beverage for their kids, they will no longer have the most unhealthful drinks pushed on their children as the default.
Nine California jurisdictions, including San Francisco, have already passed healthy kids’ meal policies, and the idea is spreading rapidly to other cities and states, including Baltimore, Louisville, and Lafayette, Colorado. New York City, Hawaii, and Vermont are poised to pass similar bills. At the same time, several of the largest restaurant chains have dropped soda from their kids’ menus—although three-quarters of the top 50 chains have yet to do so.
Just two months ago, the beverage industry extorted California lawmakers into passing legislation that blocks communities from enacting any new local soda taxes for the next 12 years. Today’s vote demonstrates that the movement to address sugary drink consumption and protect public health marches forward. Advocates and policymakers are not intimidated by the beverage industry’s tactics and remain committed to reducing the harms from sugary drinks.
We thank Senator Bill Monning and Public Health Advocates for their unwavering commitment to children’s health, and we urge Governor Jerry Brown to sign the legislation as soon as possible.
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captainmorgan
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Common sense regulation at the FDA based on science and not money would solve many of these problems but money always wins. If corporations weren't allowed to so easily sell these poisons to the public and hide their real negative health risks it would go a long way to solve many things. The country is in the midst of a obesity and health crisis and most of it can be traced back to all the pesticides,chemicals,hormones and antibiotics added to our food supply and the corporations do everything they can to hide all it's negative effects from the public.
Bugeye
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That's a good argument for self reliance. Don't let the government be your keeper since they are not capable of doing it.