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Cake day: July 23rd, 2023

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  • yarr@feddit.nlto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonerule :(
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    2 days ago

    Honestly, I wish there’s was a 50% sin tax on all food above a certain calories/gram or processed or whatever criteria you want that would be reinvested into subsidies for healthy food on SNAP. But that would never happen because Wall Street makes too much money off of fat Americans.

    Good intentions here, but the LAST thing we need is an increase on consumer basics like this. Cheap candy bars and sodas are one of the few pleasures that are still affordable for people, despite their unhealthy effects. I’d prefer subsidies to healthy food vs. yet another cost increase.


  • yarr@feddit.nlto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonerule :(
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    2 days ago

    warning for high sugar content and trans fats

    These are the same folks that think the “diet” in diet cola makes it healthy. They aren’t going to read anything or change their habits. Junk food is tasty and that’s as far as the thought goes.


  • yarr@feddit.nlto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonerule :(
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    How is he going to define this?

    Bahahha, they don’t care about logical consistency. They are going to ban anything they think is “bad” and allow everything else. Trying to nail them down is like trying to staple jello – there’s no logical approach. Trump and Co. take flying by the seat of your pants to a new art form.

    You can’t get them on “gotchas” like this because they simply DO NOT CARE.