{"id":386190,"date":"2010-03-02T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerfreedom.com:\/\/05c3c7978ff1f5fc4483c196edd785f9"},"modified":"2010-03-02T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T00:00:00","slug":"food-cops-prepare-for-round-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/386190","title":{"rendered":"Food Cops Prepare for Round 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tThink the chances of a federal tax on soft drinks are slim? By many accounts, you&#39;re right. But that hasn&rsquo;t stopped our dietary overlords from gearing up for a second push. Yesterday, William Dietz of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) <a href=\"http:\/\/content.healthaffairs.org\/cgi\/content\/full\/29\/3\/357\">spoke at a forum<\/a> to present the idea as one of many to combat childhood obesity. Writing this week in <em>Health Affairs <\/em>(a journal supported by the <a href=\"http:\/\/activistcash.com\/foundation.cfm?did=165\">Robert Wood Johnson Foundation<\/a>), Dietz and CDC chief <a href=\"http:\/\/activistcash.com\/biography.cfm\/b\/3614-dr-thomas-frieden\">Thomas Frieden<\/a> lay out <a href=\"http:\/\/content.healthaffairs.org\/cgi\/content\/full\/29\/3\/357\">a smorgasbord of heavy-handed regulations to fight your flab<\/a>, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\ta penny-per-ounce soft drink tax;<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumerfreedom.com\/news_detail.cfm\/h\/4010-doubling-down-on-la-zoning-bans\">fast food zoning bans;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\n\t\trequiring vending machines to replace snacks with &ldquo;healthier choices&rdquo;; and<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tcounteradvertising&mdash;such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumerfreedom.com\/news_detail.cfm\/h\/3999-nyc-is-pouring-on-the-guilt\">NYC&rsquo;s gross-out anti-soda ads<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n\tFrieden and Dietz call a soft drink tax &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/open\/index.ssf\/2010\/03\/cutting_childhood_obesity_coul.html\">the single-most effective measure to reverse the obesity epidemic.<\/a>&rdquo; This is no surprise coming from Frieden, who honed his naysaying skills as New York City&rsquo;s health czar. Frieden hasn&#39;t been moved by academic research that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumerfreedom.com\/news_detail.cfm\/h\/4092-massachusetts-soda-tax-is-bad-science-and-bad-politics\">rejects the notion<\/a> that soft drinks are uniquely responsible for weight gain and casts doubt on the effectiveness of such a tax. He&#39;s moving forward swiftly and resolutely&mdash;in the wrong direction.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAnd it&rsquo;s not just federal government activists leading the way. Soft drink taxes have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodnavigator-usa.com\/Legislation\/Colorado-to-remove-tax-breaks-on-soda-and-candy\">gained ground<\/a> in <em>state <\/em>legislatures too. And this week, Philadelphia&#39;s mayor is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/news\/local\/86128462.html\">expected to propose a city-wide tax on sugared beverages<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tWe&rsquo;ll keep track of&mdash;and continue to oppose&mdash;these renewed efforts by the pop cops. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think the chances of a federal tax on soft drinks are slim? By many accounts, you&#39;re right. But that hasn&rsquo;t stopped our dietary overlords from gearing up for a second push. Yesterday, William Dietz of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) spoke at a forum to present the idea as one of many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4054,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4054"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}