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The Pros And Cons Of The Soda Ban

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“That’s what life is all about, isn’t it? Choices, informed decisions...what I do not respect is having my civil liberties stripped away.”, stated by Karin Klein in the short article, Ban the Ban!. One of the many values of the American life, is freedom, but to have options of what you can drink, to be taken away from you isn’t honestly moral. The soda ban, isn’t a voted decision, but more so a individually chosen decision that will not only affect the citizens of New York, but the businesses as well. Mayor Bloomberg runs the Board of Health; and who better to decide whether the ban is valid than the Board? As the Board makes the decision, it is also under the control of the Mayor. By obvious clues, Bloomberg executive makes his bias decision. …show more content…

Buying two 16 oz. sodas, is just as easy. So what is so impactful to remove a 32oz. portion cup? The short article, “Soda’s a problem but…” states, “If people are so helpless against soda, the mayor’s edict would be even more meaningless because people would simply buy two 16-ounce cups”. Consistently attempting to reach out to make this law passed, is time being used by Bloomberg, which could be used otherwise to further look into what his city truly needs. No, instead he decides to waste his time on trying to pass a unuseful law that contradicts itself. Taking away business away, from local convenience stores, is basically what Bloomberg is doing without knowledge. “Convenience stores such as 7-eleven are overseen by the state and would be exempt, but a Burger King across the street would be restricted”, stated in the short article. The busy people of of New York, misusing time to walk across the street just to buy the size drink they are restricted from buying from hundreds of other restaurants/stores. Bloomberg wastes his time, creating problems for the customer, and the working

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The New York State Court of Appeals ultimately made the right decision to block Bloomberg’s “soda ban”. There are some things that you can’t do, and there are some things that you aren’t allowed to do. The New York City Board of Health exceeded its regulatory authority by adopting the “Sugary Drinks Portion cap Rule”. “...The New York City Board of Health, in adopting

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As the New York Mayor Michal Bloomberg is taking action against a soft drink industry. Mayor says that a ban is imposed on it because it has a big sugary drink. The mayor behavior could be considered biased towards specific company or product. There are lots of other, he should not ignore others. Everyone knows that lots of sugar are becoming the cause of problems in people like we drink almost daily like Coca-Cola, Pepsi, and other major soft drinks.

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Alcohol is horrible for the body, but it might be good for the country. The 18th Amendment was approved on December 18, 1917 by Congress to take away alcohol in the United States. This was followed by the Volstead Act that defined a drink as intoxicating if it contained more than 1% alcohol. This eliminated beer, wine, and other soft liquors. America later repealed the Amendment.

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Then if people feel that drinking is wrong and that it damages society, then why are the previous Amendments accepted and prohibition not? Economic circumstances, like the depression, might be valid reasons for such an acceptance. However, no such conundrum is prevalent today. Slavery was thought to infringe on another’s rights (Danzer, 1998). All laws promote this concept: you are free until you prohibit someone else’s freedom, then you are restricted.

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Alcohol was immensely important to immigrants that came to the United States from Europe in the 1600’s. A few centuries later, specifically 1917, many Americans believed that alcohol consumption was a problem. An eighteenth amendment was assembled and passed by congress which banned production, transport, and marketing of alcohol. Even a drink consisting of over 1 percent alcohol was considered an alcoholic beverage. America was officially a “dry” country.

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Soda or No Alexeea Swisher Mr.Mosso 1/14/2016 Have you ever thought about having soda machines at school?Why you may ask. Well because soda is awesome,cool and great. If I had a soda machine I would be so grateful. Like I say it’s nutritious and delicious. Well it is not that nutritious or healthy but it is very good.

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¨Several critics questioned why the city was making proposal on sugary drinks a priority when some city schoolchildren have no physical education classes.¨ (Washington TImes) In New York, Mayor Bloomberg placed a law on the sizes of soda citizens are allowed to get. However, this caused a lot of controversy on whether the ban was good or bad. Despite the amount of people supporting the ban´s choice, the ban does have some downsides on it. It is not a good idea to limit the amount of a soda a person can purchase (or propose the ban) because it's not applying to all, it's taking rights away from people, and itś not a big deal.

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population would cut the number of children and adults struggling with obesity and other health-related conditions. The last few years, the numbers of children and adults facing obesity have drastically increased. “Obesity causes diabetes, heart disease, and cancer,” emphasizes Dr. Steven Safyer President and CEO of Montefiore Medical Center. Such high populations suffer due to absent understanding what the proper serving size is. Congro acknowledged in Sugary Drinks over 16-Ounces Banned, “Unless they get the educational portion along with it, they won’t understand why it’s being a banned and how it relates to them personally.”

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The United States has been through many eras of social reform, but none of them are quite like prohibition. In most cases, social reform is directed at a specific group of people. For example, the women’s suffrage movement aimed to reform policies affecting women, whereas the civil rights movement aimed to reform policies affecting African Americans. Prohibition, on the other hand, impacted people of every race, class, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. The question is: was prohibition successful?

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The soda ban is a defective idea in itself because of the loopholes in the plan. As Karin Klien talks about the problem in her article “Sodas a Problem but…”, “Convenience stores such as 7-Eleven are overseen by State and would be exempt , but a Burger King across the street would be restricted” (Klien, 288). In addition, there isn’t a need for this soda ban because it makes no sense for a customer at a fast food restaurant (like Subway) to walk across the street and go to a 7-eleven, which is a state-ran store that has drinks that are over 16oz., and even over 64oz. People could even go to a grocery store and buy a 2-liter bottle of the sugary drink because it isn’t run by the city. Another way the soda ban contradicts itself is because of how you’d get the same amount of sugar if you were to drink a drink from a smoothie

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Should the Government Limit the Size of Sugary Drinks Should the government tell us how to live our lives? The government should not limit the amount of sugary drinks because its an american right to choose what we eat and sugary drinks are not the leading contributor to health problems. First of all limiting the size of sugary drinks is not the root of the problem, its the natural craving for sweet foods and the lack of education of its bad effects. There is little to no education on the bad effects of sugary drinks and foods so thats really not our problem its the government for the lack of learning about these types of harmful foods. Sugary drinks may be one of the leading factors, but there are other foods that are just as bad.

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He is the founder of “Mayors against illegal guns” and he does also want a stricter gun control. He made a commercial in 2013 that appeared in the Super Bowl commercials. Mayor Thomas Menino from Boston is by Bloomberg’s side in the commercial and they say the following “ But we both support the second amendment and believe America must do more to keep guns out of the hands of criminals. You know over 600 mayors across the country agree on common sense reforms, that would save lives”.

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Each year, billions of gallons of soda are sold in the United States alone.” Soda must be allowed to middle schoolers during school hours. Soda should be allowed because kids need more of a choice at school and soda is not the cause of all the bad stuff. Soda must be allowed at middle school because kids need more of a choice at school. At many schools the only things to drink are milk, water, and a few other juices you have to pay extra for.

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Firstly, many New Yorkers view and consider this ban as an invasion into personal choice, rights and decision. The

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That is why many propose regulating the purchases of carbonated drinks pact with sugar, or more commonly known as soda. One can of soda contains about 2.5 tablespoons of sugar, and on average, 9% of the daily calories consumed per person is from soda. Due to the high numbers of obesity in America, soda’s and other drinks high in sugar, should be regulated. Obesity can lead to many health problems. Some issues that can potentially occur because of what the person is eating include diabetes, high blood pressure, coronary heart disease, body pains, and potential death (in fact, one article in The New York Times claimed sugar, more particularly soda, to “might just be the biggest killers via preventable disease in the country”

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