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Germany plans sugar tax that includes sugar free drinks
(brusselssignal.eu)
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The problem is that companies will figure out whar artificial sweeteners get around the tax.
Don't let perfect be the enemy of the good. This is good.
No: https://www.who.int/news/item/14-07-2023-aspartame-hazard-and-risk-assessment-results-released
Diabetes is a real issue that actually kills people.
Your link says:
Yes it is, and it's solved not by soft drinks but making healthy food more accessible even to the most financially streched families. Shit food is always cheaper than healthy food. Yet they'll push to the corporations preferred and most profitable artificial sweeteners.
If you tax sugar in drinks, doesn't that mean that healthy options become cheaper?
You mean the price a smoothie drops? No. Does that or sweetener drinks give people more money in their wallet? No.
Kinda hard to pitch that as a loophole when it was the original plan set forth by the health ministry. They want companies to reformulate to reduce added sugar
They also want them to reformulate away from the current artificial sweeteners to full sugar. If you gotta pay the tax, might as well use the tasty stuff.
That's the new version not the original, although there may be another newer version that once again excludes artificial sugar.
Apparently this entire tax has become a governmental shit show with lots of fighting between groups. So who knows anymore