Hi! I'm Yu! Today, I'll introduce you the news article which I'm interested in.
On May 30th, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that he planed to introduce the prohibition of swilling soda to deal with a fatness problem in NY. This prohibition will restrict the sales of drinks which contain sugar such as soda, ice tea, sportsdrink in restaurants to 16 ounces.
However, beverage industry started a campaign against it on the street and the media. The American Beverage Association(ABA) takes the initiative in this campaign. This industry made New York Stake withdraw the introduction of soda tax in 2010. They insist on the freedom of choice of drinks. In addition, they think that drinks contain sugar are aimed at and low-income consumers will suffer heavy losses directly for this prohibition.
To be sure, fatness causes many diseases. It will increase the amount of medical bill and the expense will fall on the country and autonomies. However I doubt whether this goverment intervention has a effect on fatness problem. Although they people can't drink soda too much at restaurants but they can buy soda at supermarkets and drink at home. I think that his prohibition can't keep the number of overweight people.
Anyway, it is getting hotter and hotter and you will get to want to drink soda. But, be careful not to drink soda too much to keep weight!
See you next time!
Yu
What a funny article!!! American must not follow that rule. We are free to chose what I want. And the US doesn't have national hospital servie, so it's nonsence to prohibit drinking soda to save their money!
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ReplyDeleteIt is very interesting to read those two articles, this one from Yu and the last one from Keichi. The most interesting thing for me was my different impressions after reading those two articles. I had a feeling of that the raw liver prohibition sounds more of necessary governmental decision and the soda’s one in NY sounds a bit ridiculous and weird. I tried to find the reason why I got these different feelings from those similar bans. Both are for the people’s health, both are the popular food and drink, and both are not my favorite things… Then, why did I think so? Didn’t you guys think in a same way as me? If so, could you tell me the reason?
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