Soft Drink Industry Fights Proposed Food Stamp Ban

On this one, the industry is wrong.

To Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, it seemed like a sensible way to attack a major public health problem. To the soft drink industry, giant food companies, makers of snacks and candy, supermarkets, and antihunger groups, it seemed like an attack at the grocery checkout counter.

The mayor wants to reduce obesity and diabetes by banning the use of food stamps to buy “sugar-sweetened beverages” in New York City.

Food and beverage lobbyists see the mayor’s plan as a well-intentioned but misguided and paternalistic effort. They say it would create a logistical bottleneck at checkout counters and stigmatize poor people using food stamps.

As if the fat, "poor" people don't stigmatize the rest of us who have to pay for their diseases of choice.

The only way to lose weight is to consume fewer Calories than are burned.

Sugar-sweetened beverages have more Calories than the sugar-free varieties.

The fat "poor" can use their food stamps to buy sugar-free soda.

Opponents say that many factors, besides soft drinks, contribute to obesity. Moreover, they say, imposing restrictions on food stamps would require retailers to reprogram computers and embarrass some customers at the checkout counter.

Embarrass?

This is embarrassment/embarrassing:





And if it is not, then having to swap-out sodas won't embarrass the fat asses either.

F**k you, opponents.

Done.