{"id":32789,"date":"2013-03-12T09:50:19","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T15:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/12\/a-big-gulp-in-new-york-city.html"},"modified":"2013-03-12T09:50:19","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T15:50:19","slug":"a-big-gulp-in-new-york-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/12\/a-big-gulp-in-new-york-city.html","title":{"rendered":"A Big Gulp in New York City"},"content":{"rendered":"
There seem to be three ways of looking at Mayor Bloomberg's large soda ban:<\/p>\n

1. You can look at it from a technical\/legal point of view. \u00a0Color commentary aside, that's what the judge did here, ruling that the way he enacted the ban was illegal.<\/p>\n

2. You can look at it from an ideological standpoint, which varies from "SUGAR IS TEH EEEEVIL!" \u00a0to "NANNY STATE! NANNY STATE! NANNY STATE!" \u00a0<\/p>\n

3. You can look at it from a practical standpoint in terms of what the ban\u00a0actually did and what it didn't do — which was where it was a real mess, since it only limited some outlets from serving larger drinks, it only affected sodas (vs. the equally over-sugared fruit juices), and it did nothing about refills.<\/p>\n

The last is where it really<\/i> fell apart for me. \u00a0I'm of a mixed mind on the whole thing (I think people would be healthier if there were fewer Thirsty-Two Ouncers of sugared soda being gulped, but I'm unconvinced that's behavior that it's up to the city to try to force), but this particular proposal was so poorly constructed that it comes off as laughable at best, posturing at worse.<\/div>\n

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Judge Cans Soda Ban<\/a>
\n A state judge stopped the Bloomberg administration from banning the sale of large sugary drinks at restaurants and other venues, a major defeat for the mayor.\n <\/p>\n


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There seem to be three ways of looking at Mayor Bloomberg's large soda ban: 1. You can look at it from a technical\/legal point of view. \u00a0Color commentary aside, that's what the judge did here, ruling that the way he enacted the ban was illegal. 2. 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