• AA5B@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    No, I’m clearly stating that taxing sugar is neither clear cut nor is it sufficient to be in any way useful.

    – plenty of beneficial foods have sugar, and plenty of harmful foods do not

    – there’s lots of food with negative nutritional value but it’s not just sugar nor can it be clearly distinguished from other foods

    — obesity is more a matter of habits and quantity than one ingredient .

    Yeah it’s satisfying to demonize the hypothetical person who drinks two liter bottles of soda every day but that’s like cutting social programs because “welfare queens” or building a wall because “anchor babies”, or police needing military gear because “gangs”, or election results needing to be overturned because “fraud”. What they all have in common is they’re a target for outrage but not real or not significant.

    I’d be all for a sugar tax if I thought it could be well defined or make a difference, especially if it could make a difference for me. However of all the people I know or have met struggling with weight issues, I don’t recall any being that hypothetical sugar queen, any with any significant sweets habit that would be affected, any that could in any way be changed with this approach