Nicholas Kristof writes about it in the New York Times today. As for me, I did 7 radio interviews on Fox News this morning, including two in Georgia, home of Coca-Cola. The Fox News folks are shocked, shocked: Where’s personal responsibility? Where’s parental responsibility?
OK, but what about liquid candy? And marketing to kids? And all the research linking frequent consumption of soft drinks to childhood obesity?
OK. I’m not crazy about regressive taxes, and I think the distinction between sugary soft drinks and sugary juice drinks doesn’t make much sense, but I’m interested to see how this idea works. Let’s call it an interesting experiment and hope that someone is doing the research.
I am honored (hugely) to be the recipient of the 2023 Edinburgh Medal, at which I give a speech as part of the Edinburgh Science Festival. My talk, “Food Politics: Why it Matters Now” is at 7:00 p.m. Information about the Science Festival is here. A Tweet announcing my award is here.