FDA Rewrites Rules of 'Healthy' Foods For First Time in 30 Years
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The United States has redefined what qualifies as "healthy" food for the first time in 30 years, striking items like white bread from the list while welcoming nutrient-rich options such as eggs and salmon, officials said Thursday.

The article seems to be shittily written in my opinion but I figure if you watch the video (about a minute) it will get the point across.

My question lies in, do you think this will benefit the health of the people moving forward, or do you fear it being weaponized to endorse or threaten companies to comply with the mention of Kennedy being tied to its future as mentioned in the end of the article

  • b34k@lemmy.world
    252·
    1 day ago

    I think sin taxes are absolutely acceptable if the government is also fully paying for the healthcare of all citizens (which we should totally be doing).

    The combination of the two would make America a much healthier place overall.

    • ShareMySims@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      15 hours ago

      I’m in the UK, we have the NHS, and several “sin taxes”, and they still pretty much exclusively penalise the poor (as does the NHS which has been defunded to oblivion in favour of rampant privatisation, so those who can’t afford to go private are left with the ruins), while those selling the “sinful” products (and private health insurance) continue to rake it in.

      There is no taxing or legislating or regulating our way our of capitalism, which is exclusively responsible for those in power exchanging the health and well being of the population and the planet for profit, and they will never allow any tax or legislation or regulation to pass that would put them at any kind of disadvantage. The fact that some people still think they would, is frankly quite terrifying.

      • DancingBear
        1·
        3 hours ago

        Yes… these kinds of taxes are regressive, in that they cost poor people more than they do wealthy people

      • b34k@lemmy.world
        72·
        1 day ago

        Right… and your comment was in reply to someone merely proposing taxes that don’t exist yet either…

          • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
            2·
            22 hours ago

            So you’re supportive of Canadian sin taxes on sugar? Obviously America is broken as shit but let’s look at a less fundamentally awful example. Canada has a (granted smaller) issue with obesity and the costs of supporting long term care for it - a sin tax on sugar that helps support the Canadian healthcare system due to the outsized costs obesity causes.