The UK has done the sensible thing for public health and introduced “a new tax on sugary drinks”. Proceeds of the levy will be used (so they say) to fund school sports. Stuff has a good Q&A.
Jamie Oliver has called it “A profound move that will ripple around the world”. The Herald asks: UK sugar tax – could NZ be next? Well, no sign of it so far in the Nats’ “obesity policy”, which studiously ignored sugar. Just coincidentally, National is deeply in bed with sugar lobbyists and attacks on public health science.
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