Boston Bans Sugary Drinks

[Alex_DeLarge]

[QUOTE=JoeSkylynx;32159519]You can get a lot of glass-bottle pops in Arizona at Wallgreens for some reason. Usually Mexican Pepsi though, anyway...
Until they can find a way to make healthy foods actually appetizing(note: Talking about school related) they shouldn't force them down the throats of the students. What should be done is schools could allow snack bars from different companies(starbucks, diy shops, ect.) too come on during lunch/free period hours, and serve under represented calorie charts. Products could be given a district set tax(nothing major.... Maybe two cents on the dollar) all of which return to the district in order to fund educational needs.

It's a win-win. Students have the choice/information. District gets DST from companies cooking on campus. Companies will be able to reach students during lunch hours.

What might also be a win is students might be able to get jobs in these snack bars which could progress as work experience off campus.[/QUOTE]

I remember when Starbucks came to our middle school and sold frappachinos to the kids, a bunch of Mormon parents complained about it and they never came back.

[Nitro836]

Oh, he's gonna be pissed.

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[Neolithic v2]

While I don't agree with this, it's not really unreasonable when you consider sugar a drug. I hate to bring cannabis into this, but I consider sugar much more addictive, and more harmful to your body.

[Pocket Medic]

[QUOTE=Nitro836;32160502]Oh, he's gonna be pissed.

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[img]http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc110/cactor67/Healing%20Touch/BonkDrink.png[/img]

It's not sugary, it's just radioactive!

[sHiBaN]

"Ayo, you need somethin? I gots the finest shit right here! I got something called the Mountain Dew, the Coke, some crazy one I got its called Orange Soda. Watchu got on you, I can hook you up foo."

[IMG]http://www.pacificsandiego.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/bootlegger-best.jpg[/IMG]

[Upgrade123]

Meh, I don't drink soda.

Wait what the fuck they're banning iced coffee and tea?
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[D_M_]

That's great, now there's gonna be soda smuggling. :v:

[Glitchvid]

You know technically few soda drinks actually have the sugar molecule in them.
Its mostly high fructose corn syrup.

[Bat-shit]

I wonder will there be some "Coke" dealers in boston after this gets approved.

[Smartlord]

[QUOTE=Pocket Medic;32160617][img]http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc110/cactor67/Healing%20Touch/BonkDrink.png[/img]

It's not sugary, it's just radioactive![/QUOTE]
Yes it is, it says it has a lot of sugar on it.

[quote=Team Fortress Wiki]An active adult's daily recommended sugar intake is around 90 {{w|Gram|grams]]. Assuming the contents of Bonk! Atomic Punch are as advertised – the drink is said to contain several hundred times the daily recommended amount – the can of Bonk! would weigh at least 9 kg. This would equate roughly to 20 {{w|Pound (mass)|lbs]].[/quote]

Not just a little amount of sugar either.

[Desolategrunt]

I can get you guys the stuff you need...for a price

[PJAMA]

[QUOTE=Pocket Medic;32160617][img]http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc110/cactor67/Healing%20Touch/BonkDrink.png[/img]

It's not sugary, it's just radioactive![/QUOTE]

Bonk! is sugary because if you look at it's VTF you'll see the following written on the side of the can:

INGREDIENTS: WATER, RADIATION, SUGAR.

[abcpea3]

theres nothing wrong with this you stupid hippies

[D_M_]

[QUOTE=abcpea3;32161812]theres nothing wrong with this you stupid hippies[/QUOTE]

We are going to make a choice for a whole city for them to be healthier.

Nothing wrong with that.

[editline]7th September 2011[/editline]

:v:

[MisterMooth]

[QUOTE=Da_Maniac_;32161848]We are going to make a choice for a whole city for them to be healthier.

Nothing wrong with that.

[editline]7th September 2011[/editline]

:v:[/QUOTE]

there's something wrong with your reading comprehension skills

[D_M_]

[QUOTE=MisterMooth;32161860]there's something wrong with your reading comprehension skills[/QUOTE]

They chose to ban sugary drinks.

What did I get wrong.

[MisterMooth]

the whole city property part

[polyhistor]

[QUOTE=sHiBaN;32160657]"Ayo, you need somethin? I gots the finest shit right here! I got something called the Mountain Dew, the Coke, some crazy one I got its called Orange Soda. Watchu got on you, I can hook you up foo."

[IMG]http://www.pacificsandiego.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/bootlegger-best.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]

Anyone else get prohibition nostalgia?

History repeats itself in hilarious ways...

[D_M_]

[QUOTE=MisterMooth;32161906]the whole city property part[/QUOTE]

Oh, my bad :v:

My point still stands though.

[ironman17]

This ain't a good idea. Period. If people choose to drink soda, then they shall drink soda, and nothing, not even the Major of Boston, can stop that. If they are denied the soda, then they shall drink the blood of Tom Menino, sweetened and carbonated to disgrace and spite his memory. (the worst possible scenario)

You don't need to ban things; what you DO need to do is to promote healthy living as an important thing. Make sure that kids learn this at a young age and learn to moderate their snackings, and the so-called "junk foods" won't be as much of a problem. The whole banning of selling it on city property only makes it harder for people to buy it, which is not the way to go.

Even if the fool only wants to help us be healthy, he should be looking at the true evils of the soda world; the diet soda. These demonic concoctions may have less sugar, sometimes no sugar at all, but they are loaded with detrimental toxins and chemicals like aspartame, sucralose and saccharin, and those are FAR worse than any full-sugar soda. If anything, he should be promoting the healthier sugar-based sodas and campaigning against the vile fiendish cocktail that is the Diet Soda.

But hey, at least we don't have any sodas with lead acetate (a lead-based salt with a sweetish taste) in them...

[Omali]

Normally I don't care, it's just banning sales on city property. But the fact that the mayor puts diet sodas one the "yellow" level shows his team's lack of education especially when we've had reports this year that diet sodas are more fattening than regular soda.

[sami-elite]

Wait diet sodas are yellow on his chart? I missed that. That's bullshit.

[Omali]

Yep. It's stupid bullshit:

Red (drink rarely or never):
-Soda
-Energy Drinks
-Fruit Drinks

Yellow: (drink occasionally)
-Diet Soda
-Low calorie, low sugar drinks
-100% Juice

Green: (Drink plenty)
-Water
-Seltzer Water
-Skim or 1% milk

Total ignorance. Is he honestly saying that diet soda and low sugar drinks (which contain aspertame and other artificial shit) is healthier for your than fruit drinks? Because most of those fruit drinks have vitamins in them now, what does diet pepsi have? Jack shit.

[SEKCobra]

A free country indeed, the intentions behind this in honor, this ain't right.

[Ven Kaeo]

[QUOTE=sami-elite;32162599]Wait diet sodas are yellow on his chart? I missed that. That's bullshit.[/QUOTE]

Yeah they should definitely be red.

[Contag]

[QUOTE=Omali;32162661]Yep. It's stupid bullshit:

Red (drink rarely or never):
-Soda
-Energy Drinks
-Fruit Drinks

Yellow: (drink occasionally)
-Diet Soda
-Low calorie, low sugar drinks
-100% Juice

Green: (Drink plenty)
-Water
-Seltzer Water
-Skim or 1% milk

Total ignorance. Is he honestly saying that diet soda and low sugar drinks (which contain aspertame and other artificial shit) is healthier for your than fruit drinks? Because most of those fruit drinks have vitamins in them now, what does diet pepsi have? Jack shit.[/QUOTE]

Also, milk is fairly fattening, and calcium does fuck all for osteoporosis unless you live in Sub-saharan Africa.

[Skidd]

Good fucking riddance.
I stopped drinking coke and shit, and don't miss it in the slightest.

[FPChris]

You're not gonna stop children from getting obese by banning things that [b]might[/b] make you fat.

Is gym class like something you don't have to do in the US or what. Where I live they're starting to make it as obligatory as Maths or Biology, you really have to be there and do your best or you might get a call home.

[POLOPOZOZO]

Wow I bet Boston sucks anyway.

[SigmaLambda]

[QUOTE=Contag;32158863]It's a stepping stone to them being banned or heavily regulated.[/QUOTE]

no it's not.

"slippery slope" arguments are bullshit