• Ziggurat
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    1 year ago

    That’s a pretty liberal approach. When 50% of the population is overweight, me need a societal shift and strong regulations rather than blaming individual behaviour in a society promoting obesity. We didn’t got rid of smoking by blaming smoker but by taxing cigarettes, and tons of prevention campaign

    • Swiggles@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      Actually I agree. Unfortunately you cannot tax food like smokes as it is essential.

      Technically you could tax sweets more, but let’s be real the problem is the two pounds of pasta and meats some people are able to eat. It is the shear amount of food some people stuff in their faces and they are actually already paying more for it, but they obviously don’t care.

      I don’t have any solution though. As I said before it should at least not be promoted or encouraged.