Now they wanna ban chips being sold near schools !!!

[darkglobe]

http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2 ... r_scho.php

[woodenhead]

What a FUCKING JOKE!!! If anybody i dont care who they are or what age wants something they will find a way 2 get it! All these political FUCKHEADS need 2 stop trying 2 control us! Banning french fries now oh c'mon what next soda! LOL!!!

[StillSmokin]

Over here in the UK - I'm sure I remember a few years ago when Jamie Oliver tried starting to get the schools to make healthy meals (kids weren't allowed out at lunch I believe) - seeing on TV mums handing bags of chips and deep fried fried sausages etc through the gates to their kids at lunch/break (probably both, lol)

[KeyMonCha]

Over here in the UK - I'm sure I remember a few years ago when Jamie Oliver tried starting to get the schools to make healthy meals (kids weren't allowed out at lunch I believe) - seeing on TV mums handing bags of chips and deep fried fried sausages etc through the gates to their kids at lunch/break (probably both, lol)

Yeah, Sarah Palin tried that shit in the states too... Brought cookies and shit in after a school tried to make the kids eat healthy!!! "No one will tell American kids what they can eat"!... I'm totally for it... Too many fat, stupid kids running around these days... Too many with a sense of entitlement too... Stamp the little feckers out i say!!! More burgers and cookies for me!!!

[dwiggins]

Chips? Fellow freedom lovers, the situation appears even more bleak.
There are more of those who want to decide for your health... that salt should be banned. S A L T ?
At least in the USA. Can someone explain what is happening to the USA?
What did salt do to them

MARCH 10, 2010, 6:22 PM
Pass the Salt Ban?

By ANDY NEWMAN
Tony Cenicola/The New York Times
In one of the odder developments to come out of Albany in recent weeks, which is saying something, a Brooklyn assemblyman, Felix Ortiz, has proposed a bill that would make it illegal for restaurants to use salt in the preparation of food. Period.

Plain as day, or perhaps unsalted french fries, Assembly Bill A10129, introduced last Friday, says, “No owner or operator of a restaurant in this state shall use salt in any form in the preparation of any food for consumption by customers of such restaurant, including food prepared to be consumed on the premises of such restaurant or off the premises.”

The measure proposes fines of $1,000 for each violation.

Mr. Ortiz, a Democrat who represents several neighborhoods where salt is known to be heavily used, including Red Hook and Sunset Park, told The Times Union of Albany that he was inspired to introduce the bill by the case of his father, who used salt excessively for years and developed high blood pressure and had a heart attack.
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/ ... -salt-ban/

[dwiggins]

What a FUCKING JOKE!!! If anybody i dont care who they are or what age wants something they will find a way 2 get it! All these political FUCKHEADS need 2 stop trying 2 control us! Banning french fries now oh c'mon what next soda! LOL!!!

Sad but true. They can't ban cola, but they can tax it.
Which might be the real intention of the ban.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/eur ... 94,00.html
12/29/2011 11:45 AM
French 'Cola Tax' Approved
Paris Vows to Fight Deficit and Obesity
Officially part of the country's tough austerity measures to combat the debt crisis, France will implement a new "soda tax" on Jan. 1. The legislation is also part of a growing trend in Europe to impose sin taxes on food and drinks associated with poor health and obesity.
For French residents fond of sugary drinks like Coca Cola, life is about to get more expensive. The country's top constitutional body, the Constitutional Council, approved a new soda tax on Wednesday. The tax, which works out at about 1 euro cent per container, is part of austerity measures passed in France to combat the debt crisis, and is expected to generate around !120 million ($156 million) in revenue for the government.
In its decision approving the legislation, the Constitutional Council said that while it didn't believe the government was imposing the tax only to promote health and combat obesity, it also didn't see any unfair disadvantages for a specific product group in the legislation.
The "cola tax," as people are calling it in France, will now go into effect on Jan. 1. French media are reporting that most companies will raise the tax money by increasing their price per drink. Industry sources have told newspapers that soft drink prices could increase by as much as 35 percent.
The tax is part of a comprehensive savings program by the conservative government aimed at reducing France's federal deficit in the coming years and preserving the country's imperiled AAA credit rating. Plans also include raising taxes on cigarettes and spirits as well as the elimination of numerous tax write-offs and incentives. Debate over the multibillion-euro package in parliament has been intense in recent months.
'A Tax that Stigmatizes Our Products'
The impact the tax could have on Coca-Cola's plants in France could also be one reason for the stiff opposition. The company, based in the United States, has five plants in France that employ some 3,000 people. In Pennes-Mirabeau near Marseille, 203 people work for the company. Coca-Cola officials state that they have invested !45 million in the plant over the past five years. During the debate over the tax, Coca- Cola said in September it was suspending a !17 million investment at the plant in "a symbolic protest against a tax that punishes our company and stigmatizes our products," the French news agency AFP reported.
Of course, the tax will not be applied exclusively to Coca-Cola products, but rather to all soft drinks, including French favorite Orangina.
More than 60 members of parliament in the opposition had signed on to a petition to the Constitutional Council that was critical of the legislation. With the council's rejection of the complaint, the legislation will now go forward.
France is not the first country in Europe to levy such a tax. Earlier this year, Hungary introduced a "fat tax" on goods with high fat, sugar and salt content, including soft drinks. Denmark and several other European countries also have soda taxes.
dsl -- with wires

[Marco]

Will it be a frietpas?