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Because 64% of adults are overweight or obese, with 26% being in the heavier classification. Thats a doubling in a decade. It’s costing the NHS £11 billion per year, and 13% of hospital admissions in 2023 were due to being overweight. The cost to the economy through sick days, reduced productivity and premature death is around £100bn per year.
Obesity now kills more than drinking or smoking in England and Scotland. There is already a bill in parliament for a phased total smoking ban.
Yeah turns out people were incapable of making good decisions on their own. Which is fine, unless you're asking everyone around you to pay for it.
Me and you (hopefully) both understand that that is not a human mistake rather than mega corpos profit-hungry strategies to hook people up on sugary drinks. Instead of limiting peoples choices, we should strafe to punish companies for their aggressive strategies towards customers. As simple as regulate how much actual sugar goes in a drink. People will complain and hopefully drink less if it is less sweet. The ones who would keep drinking would ingest less sugar. Win-win for humanity, lose-win for corpos. This new rule looks like is fighting the cause in a backwards direction.
Sugar in drinks was already regulated. It wasn’t enough.