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<blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 942872" data-attributes="member: 1246">| Monday, February 20, 2012 @ 4:08 pm |&nbsp; [h=2]<a href="http://weaselzippers.us/2012/02/20/bad-news-food-police-to-label-soft-drinks-racist/" target="_blank">Bad News: Food Police To Label Soft Drinks Racist…</a>[/h]<img src="http://weaselzippers.us/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/soft.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Have a Coke and a smile . . . you racist bastard!Via <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2012/02/20/foodpolitik-are-soft-drinks-racist%e2%80%a8/" target="_blank">Daily Caller</a>:“Spread of soda tax fizzles,” read a headline last week on authoritative state politics website Stateline. We shouldn’t pop the champagne cork just yet, though. Anti-sugar activists are still gunning for soft drinks.
Apparently, sugary beverages like soda, juice, and sports drinks are so nefarious that they warrant a two-day conference this summer. In June, the food-police Center for Science in the Public (or, really, their own fringe) Interest is rallying the troops in Washington, D.C. for another push to put the government in a wide swath of beverages.&nbsp; This follows on CSPI’s recent lead balloon of last fall’s “Food Day,” which generated noise but little else — similar to the prospects of this conference. [...]

But perhaps the most nauseating session will examine the “impact of sugary drinks in communities of color.” We can already guess what the conclusion will be: Soft drinks disproportionately “harm” urban minorities.
 
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[QUOTE="moreluck, post: 942872, member: 1246"] [B]|[/B] Monday, February 20, 2012 @ 4:08 pm [B]|[/B] [h=2][URL="http://weaselzippers.us/2012/02/20/bad-news-food-police-to-label-soft-drinks-racist/"]Bad News: Food Police To Label Soft Drinks Racist…[/URL][/h][IMG]http://weaselzippers.us/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/soft.jpg[/IMG] Have a Coke and a smile . . . [I]you racist bastard![/I] Via [URL="http://dailycaller.com/2012/02/20/foodpolitik-are-soft-drinks-racist%e2%80%a8/"]Daily Caller[/URL]: [INDENT]“Spread of soda tax fizzles,” read a headline last week on authoritative state politics website Stateline. We shouldn’t pop the champagne cork just yet, though. Anti-sugar activists are still gunning for soft drinks. Apparently, sugary beverages like soda, juice, and sports drinks are so nefarious that they warrant a two-day conference this summer. In June, the food-police Center for Science in the Public (or, really, their own fringe) Interest is rallying the troops in Washington, D.C. for another push to put the government in a wide swath of beverages. This follows on CSPI’s recent lead balloon of last fall’s “Food Day,” which generated noise but little else — similar to the prospects of this conference. [...] But perhaps the most nauseating session will examine the “impact of sugary drinks in communities of color.” We can already guess what the conclusion will be: Soft drinks disproportionately “harm” urban minorities. [/INDENT] [/QUOTE]

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