Comments on: The soft drink industry strikes back

By: Essie

Essie — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 13:42:20 +0000

Berman is scheduled to apppear on Rachel Maddow’s show sometime this week. Can’t wait to see that.

By: Marisa

Marisa — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:35:33 +0000

So taxing bad things like cigarettes is not big brother-ish, but taxing another bad thing like soda is? (Do sodas have anything good about them?)

By: RawlinD

RawlinD — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:25:15 +0000

And CSPI are paragons of impartial advocacy? Doing it all for our own good? Never twist and cherry-pick science to their own ends?

Sure.

As I recall, CSPI were the same crusaders who championed for hydrogenated vegetable oils for frying. Trans fats.

Oops.

By: RawlinD

RawlinD — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:18:25 +0000

And CSPI are paragons of impartial advocacy? Doing it all for our own good? Never twist and cherry-pick science to their own ends?

Sure.

By: Janet Camp

Janet Camp — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:32:09 +0000

Thanks, Jonathan. It’s interesting to see to what lengths people will go to protect their investments. Soda companies are publicly traded and almost anyone with a 401k owns a piece of one of them. I do not, but people tend to find that odd and don’t see a connection between their owning bits of these companies and the health of the nation.

By: Jonathan Brandon

Jonathan Brandon — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:34:38 +0000

I have spent the last hour perusing this organization’s website, and it’s truly horrifying. Of course it is transparent in purpose, but nonetheless, this is the type of misinformation that keeps people from considering alternatives to their wasteful, unethical, and irreponsible lifestyles. This is motivating!