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Germany plans sugar tax that includes sugar free drinks (brusselssignal.eu)

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[-] quick_snail@feddit.nl 0 points 2 months ago

Diabetes is a real issue that actually kills people.

Your link says:

The committee therefore reaffirmed that it is safe for a person to consume within this limit per day. For example, with a can of diet soft drink containing 200 or 300 mg of aspartame, an adult weighing 70kg would need to consume more than 9–14 cans per day to exceed the acceptable daily intake, assuming no other intake from other food sources.

[-] CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] quick_snail@feddit.nl 0 points 2 months ago

If you tax sugar in drinks, doesn't that mean that healthy options become cheaper?

[-] CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

You mean the price a smoothie drops? No. Does that or sweetener drinks give people more money in their wallet? No.

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