Exclusive: Co-author of analysis for WHO calls on government to control the food industry rather than being subservient to it

Exclusive: Co-author of analysis for WHO calls on government to control the food industry rather than being subservient to it

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  • Maddier1993@programming.dev
    94·
    6 months ago

    Eh… we need to stop consuming so much sugar. I want to actually have something taste good and not because it’s Cocaine’s milder cousin.

    • rubikcuber@feddit.uk
      10·
      6 months ago

      Fair point. I get that this isn’t aimed at me. I’m not a sugar fiend. But the big food manufacturers will just replace it with artificial sweeteners, which to me at least taste awful. I used to enjoy the odd Fentimans Ginger Beer, but now it tastes like hand soap and all I can thing about is that Godfather meme… “look how they massacred my boy” 😥

      • Guntrigger@sopuli.xyz
        3·
        6 months ago

        Same here. I don’t consume a lot of sugar, but I hate the taste of sweetners. My personal viewpoint is that the law just made a bunch of thing I used to like inedible but didn’t change my sugar intake at all.

        Overall the law just made everyone consume more sweetners and the companies making the products increase their products. All this back patting is all about profits, not public health.

    • Gamoc@lemmy.world
      31·
      6 months ago

      And I don’t think the government should be deciding it for us, punishing people who dare to eat or drink sugar with higher prices, nor have yet another avenue of tax to funnel into their pockets.

      • the_third@feddit.de
        22·
        6 months ago

        If everybody paid for their own health costs, wider seats on buses, new equipment for rescuers that can handle more weight - then fine. But they don’t, so society has an an interest in stopping people becoming fatter and fatter.

        • Gamoc@lemmy.world
          31·
          6 months ago

          That’s not what this is, this is just taking more money from poor people. People aren’t going to change their entire lifestyle and get healthier because one of the cheapest things gets more expensive. They’ll either pay more and continue to get fat or switch to something else that’s cheap but equally unhealthy and continue to get fat.

          Cheap sugar isn’t the problem, expensive healthier food is. Changing things so the sugar is also expensive is fucking stupid if the aim is to make people get healthier, even ignoring the fact that “making” people do anything is shitty anyway.