• CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml
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    4 days 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.

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      4 days ago

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

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        4 days ago

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