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Last month, San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom issued a proclamation declaring this summer, through August 2010, as another Soda Free Summer. Newsom’s action was meant to encourage all San Franciscans to opt for healthy alternatives to calorically sweetened beverages.
In an effort to lead by example, Newsome has now issued an executive order that bans vending machines on city property from dispensing Coke, Pepsi and other calorically sweetened beverages. Sports drinks and artificially sweetened water also are included in the ban (MLive.com).
The California Center for Public Health Advocacy recently presented evidence demonstrating a direct link between soda consumption and obesity. Other studies have shown that sweetened beverage consumption trends parallel the rise in obesity.
The city of San Francisco has been on a crusade to address the public health crisis of obesity, inactivity, and poor nutrition, as well as the excessive waste produced by consumption of bottled beverages.
In June 2007, Mayor Newsom signed an executive order that banned the city from using taxpayer money to buy bottled water for its employees.
Despite owning a pristine mountain reservoir said to produce some of the country’s best-tasting tap water, the city was estimated to spend nearly $500,000 a year on bottled water at the time the order was signed (SFGate).
MLive.com reports that “beyond the vending machine ban, San Francisco’s Newsom also wants to impose a retail fee on soda.”
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+ add your ownI like this ban
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these Americans rose to national prominence and were highly acclaimed and decorated. And they were nazi war criminals.
maybe adding steep fees is the way to go, rather than banning altogether
thanks and noted
I don't drink soft drinks but I think that banning them is an infringment on my right to choose, even if it is a bad choice.
Don't drink soft drinks anyway.M
Ashley, as an intelligent and caring human being, as I believe you are, I can't believe that you are supporting your soda addiction. If you were only harming yourself, fair enough, but soda harms us all, teaches our children awful habits, and, because of us humans, adds to the pollution of the planet. Please think again.
I voted to ban soft drinks...but I feel so sorry for those of us who don't like water. (Shame on them!)
If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as the souls who live under tyrany. Thomas Jefferson.
toronto should adopt this policy, well done.
in toronto there's way too many soda machines and cans littering the streets
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