Will the Cambridge, MA Government Control Your Food Choices...in Private Restaurants?
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This is a follow up on our previous post The Regulation (not Education) of Food "Choices".
The City of Cambridge, Massachusetts is pondering banning soda and sugar-sweetened beverages in restaurants. This is because high intake of soda and other sugar sweetened beverages increases the risk of diabetes and obesity. The government will make it easy on the citizens. No thinking required. No decisions to be made.
The city will save you from yourself. I imagine the founding fathers are rolling over in their graves. Americans are independent thinkers, not dependent on a centralized authority to tell us what we are allowed to eat or sell in a private restaurant.
Remember these "choices" are not only for food. The government has also sourced out educational standards to private companies so your local school board and state don't have to make educational