Soda Taxes #
April 10th, 2009 | In Worth Knowing
Ceaselessly patrolling the boarders of our corporeal liberties, William Saletan notes the looming attack on “sugared beverages.”
New York City’s health commissioner, Thomas Frieden, is leading the way. He’s the guy who purged trans fats from the city’s restaurants and made them post calorie counts for menu items. Lately he’s been pressuring food companies to remove salt from their products.
Now he’s going after soda.
That paragraph put into my head this line: “First they came for the transfats, I said nothing…” Apologies to Niemöller fans.