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The sale of Coca-Cola is now outlawed at San Francisco City Hall. That means if you need to wash down that tofu turkey dog, you’ll need to order a bottle of soy milk.
Mayor Gavin Newsome has issued an executive order banning Coke, Pepsi and Fanta Orange from vending machines on city property. The directive also includes non-diet sodas, sports drinks and artificially sweetened water.
That means you can no longer “Do the Dew” at City Hall. Dr. Pepper? Not welcome and neither is Mr. Pibb.
Even fruit juices have come under the mayor’s scrutiny. Juices must be made from 100 percent juice with no added sweeteners.
So what’s a thirsty San Franciscan supposed to drink?
Well, according to the mayor, the city’s vending machines will be stocked with a wide variety of “healthy” alternatives. Imagine nursing a glass of rice milk or perhaps soy milk on a warm, sunny day. The machines will also be stocked with water — provided it meets fat and sugar content requirements.
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the ban is part of the mayor’s effort to slim the city’s waistlines.
“There’s a direct link between what people eat and drink and the obesity and health care crisis in this country,” Newsom spokesman Tony Winnicker told the newspaper. “It’s entirely appropriate and not at all intrusive for city government to take steps to discourage the sale of sugary sodas on city property.”
Not intrusive unless, of course, you want a bottle of root beer or a Fresca.
The city’s ban is believed to be one of the strictest in the nation and it’s drawn the ire of the California/Nevada Soft Drink Association.
“This is all about choice,” Executive Director Bob Achermann told the Chronicle. “There is probably nothing more personal than what you drink or eat. Singling out beverages in this whole equation of how to fight obesity is not going to be the answer.”
But Winnicker said the only thing they are banning is the sale of soft drinks — not the actual consumption. “People absolutely remain free to choose to drink unhealthy sugary sodas anywhere they want,” he told the newspaper. “Selling them is another matter.”
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And yet again a government feels the need to tell its citizens how to live their lives, because we all must not be smart enough to figure it out ourselves.
Looks like Kagan was right, the government CAN tell you what to eat and drink.
Regardless of what reasoning is used in order to take away choices….personal choices are the cornerstone of Freedom's very foundation.
Surely we should, each of us, make a commitment to healthier living; but, it's the "principal of the thing!"
If we don't start standing up, as a people, for: principals; rights; good common sense government — of , by, and for….the people — then we, as a people — DESERVE to be led by the whims of these political wind-sniffing, excitable, politically correcting politicians like this prissy little fudge-packer from SAN FRAN FREAKO ……
If this Godless little turd does anything positive at all, I guess he does kinda help us understand Madam Speaker a little better.
California is a lost cause…
"warm, sunny day"? I thought this was San Francisco…
Well, it looks like everyone who predicted this years ago when they started in on cigarettes were right, and those who claimed it would "never happen" were wrong. Maybe now that they are infringing on more widespread and accepted freedoms, you people will start to see the kind of future your political views are bringing to us all.
This is how freedom is taken, one small thing at a time. And they will convince you it is "for your own good". And the stupid people will smile and thank them for it. Scary!
Gotta blame the useful idiot Libs who vote for these Commie radicals.
No oceanfront property in Nevada Yet?
@Jim34684… Where do you get your news from? From your comment, I can only assume you get it from either ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, or MSNBC. Or do you get your news from LA Times, NY Times, NY Post, Wash Post, etc.? It seems to be Jim, you are not getting both sides of the story. Your man, Obama, is NOT good for America! When in history did any President (besides Bush for starting this nightmare) takeover car companies, banks, insurance companies, education, and healthcare? And now he's wanting to takeover energy! He's not looking out for you dear Jim! You are nothing to him, along with the other 300M+ Americans! So, I pray you wake up Jim and fast! You, and the rest of us, are becoming slaves to this Government…they are taking all our liberties away each and every day they are in office!