Soda and Fruit Juices Should be Banned

[TCRAIG]

If we are going to start banning foods, lets just eliminate all processed foods. Only sell meat, veggies, fruits & whole grains. These are the things we all should be eating.

Ban soda and fruit juice - whatever - but try and ban chocolate - that’s blasphemy!

 

[_19disnA]

If the OP thinks certain beverages are bad for you, why don't they just avoid buying/consuming them? That seems way easier to me then advocating something gets banned (not even sure how someone would go about doing that) so that no one else would have access to them either.

 

[mom2rtk]

If the OP thinks certain beverages are bad for you, why don't they just avoid buying/consuming them? That seems way easier to me then advocating something gets banned (not even sure how someone would go about doing that) so that no one else would have access to them either.

Nah, it's a lot more fun to mandate what other people can and can't do.

 

[RamblingMad]

Nah, it's a lot more fun to mandate what other people can and can't do.

This happens all the time. This is nothing new. Lots of stuff got banned this year.

 

[RamblingMad]

Ban soda and fruit juice - whatever - but try and ban chocolate - that’s blasphemy!

This one is going to get expensive. Climate change is already impacting production, and the cost of chocolate is going up.

 

[Lilsia]

That's how grocery stores were when I was a kid. But they quickly changed in the 80s.

I was born in 1973 and I remember junk food as a kid. Grocery stores had all of the usual junk back then. I think you might me misremembering.

 

[Lilsia]

They also don't live as long.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27063997/

Married men live longer then single men. Should we force all men to get married? This is getting a bit ridiculous.

 

[pigletgirl]

Can't tell people what to do.

 

[Jimmy Mouse]

for this thread and a 40oz. Coca Cola because it's my choice

 

[nicolita3]

It's going to be interesting when people are choosing between eating and paying for insulin. I wouldn't be surprised if this isn't already happening.

This absolutely is happening now.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.in...-prices-diabetes-alec-smith-b1972475.html?amp

 

[Colleen27]

This absolutely is happening now.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/insuluin-prices-diabetes-alec-smith-b1972475.html?amp

And has been for decades. My grandmother's income in retirement was almost exactly the cost of her medications (no insulin, but a diabetic med that came in pill form). If she didn't have family to support her, she'd have been in that boat - either she could pay for her medication or for food and utilities, not both. And that was the 1990s. Things haven't gotten a whole lot better since then, and banning soda isn't going to fix it.

 

[ronandannette]

Soda isn't liquor or drugs. I doubt we'll have underground soda factories. They will never get banned because of the lobbying dollars of Coke and Pepsi. The reality is that we'll have a whole lot of people dying or living out miserable lives in their senior years. I would reasonably expect that insulin costs will continue to surge. It's going to be interesting when people are choosing between eating and paying for insulin. I wouldn't be surprised if this isn't already happening.

OK - maybe not. People who like sweet (or IMO overly-sweet) beverages will simply substitute some other available one. Homemade lemonade with way too much sugar? That syrupy swill Americans call "sweet tea"? Lots of ways to drink sugar if one is so motivated. C'mon - admit you're posting these comments just for the sake of argument.

 

[Planogirl]

OK - maybe not. People who like sweet (or IMO overly-sweet) beverages will simply substitute some other available one. Homemade lemonade with way too much sugar? That syrupy swill Americans call "sweet tea"? Lots of ways to drink sugar if one is so motivated. C'mon - admit you're posting these comments just for the sake of argument.

What about diet sodas? They make pretty good low or no sugar drinks now. They might be even better with some added sugar.

 

[Timandalicia]

So should tobacco and alcohol but we have freedom of choice in the USA.

While I agree with your assertion your examples don’t help the cause. You are listing like the only two recreational drugs that are not banned (weed in some States not withstanding).

 

[Timandalicia]

Can't tell people what to do.

aren’t you? Right there?

 

[pahoben]

Hispanics in the US are consistently shown to have higher life expectancy than non-Hispanic Caucasians although lower incomes and higher obesity rates. Men have lower life expectancy than females in every country in the world and higher death rates in every age group from birth on. Real life is usually more complex than simple statistics that support some social view.

https://www.statista.com/statistics...th-in-the-us-by-race-hispanic-origin-and-sex/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK569310/figure/ch2.fig1/

 

[prairie_girl]

OK - maybe not. People who like sweet (or IMO overly-sweet) beverages will simply substitute some other available one. Homemade lemonade with way too much sugar? That syrupy swill Americans call "sweet tea"? Lots of ways to drink sugar if one is so motivated. C'mon - admit you're posting these comments just for the sake of argument.

You forgot Kool Aid!!!

 

[legler2250]

Telling someone no or simply making banning something does zero in the way of educating someone on WHY they should be doing or not doing something in the first place. Over regulated societies collapse upon their own weight. Teach someone WHY and you no longer need as many lawyers =)

 

[jo-jo]

Didn't read more than 10 posts.

How does one ban fruit juice? Someone bites into an apple and juice is running down his face does he get charged with a felony?

 

[mom2rtk]

This happens all the time. This is nothing new. Lots of stuff got banned this year.

Doesn’t make any of it necessarily right. Nor does it mean we should do more.