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Thu, 06 May 2010 19:10:14 +0000

[...] hypertension, heart disease, etc. And yet, any reader of this blog probably knows this stuff (see here and here .) I can’t help but write about obesity and its discontents. The problems are too [...]

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To Tax or Not To Tax? Obesity is the Question. « good • man • eats — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:31:42 +0000

[...] The last time I wrote about the soda tax, I argued against the logic of it. I think it’s ludicrous to tax soda and still subsidize corn. This time around, it is clear that subsidization of healthy foods must happen. In another article, Laskway writes, “It’s nice that we are finally willing to start taxing unhealthy food. But without doing something about the good stuff, we’re only fighting half the battle.” For a country that prides itself on the “free market,” the grocery store is an awful example of this economic ideal. At any grocery store, you have whole foods competing with processed foods, and the latter has the advantage of subsidized ingredients. If we want to practice what we preach, the least we could do is subsidize the whole foods too. [...]

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