re: Soda with a kid's meal? It's no longer allowed in New Orleans, as new law takes effect

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This country needs more personal accountability and you can’t get that with laws.

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You are 100% correct. But we have passed the point of no return on personal responsibility.

That’ll solve the violent crime issues.

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how much more sugar does a coke have than fruit juice?

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The problem is - soft drinks don't have any positives - just sugar and chemicals. Phosphoric acid is in virtually all dark soda. Coke (I think) still uses sodium benzoate. Other chemicals vary, but there is nothing good in most soft drinks unless you're an addict.

Fruit juice is just sugary, fruity water, but the extras in there do some good. Vitamins, minerals. Some "juices" slip in some extra nastiness, but overall much better health choice, even though sugar/calories might be comparable.

Regardless - parents should be making those choices. A Coke as a treat isn't going to kill the kid. Likewise, Coke as a lifestyle isn't going to be stopped by this bullshite law. It will only harm business.

Another example of the type of freedoms offered by the Dems

This might have made a difference in the 90s when people drank soft drinks like they were going out of style, but who actually lets their kids drink soft drinks anymore? poor people doing this?

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”

-C.S. Lewis

Sweet tea, lemonade, and juice is the same thing with sugar

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On the one hand, soft drinks are essentially poison.

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When they were first created it was seen as basically an occasional treat, not the primary medium the quench your daily thirst. Obviously the soda companies were tremendously successful in marketing sodas to be a daily part of life, but the capitalist in me can't fault them for their success.

We live in a world where more information is available to more people at any point in human history. It's not a secret that excessive soda intake is not good for your health.

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This is the epitome of how some see governance - meaningless, feel good legislation that will accomplish nothing positive and probably damage businesses.

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Agreed. The argument by the proponents is that the law helps society because it will lower the need for healthcare. Of course, that is based upon the fallacy that obese people would otherwise be thin and healthy if they just didn't drink soda. In 95% of cases obesity is a result of poor decision making and/or just lack of care. So it's not as if eliminating soda will solve that. Obese people will just find other ways to remain unhealthy.

This is nothing more than political grandstanding to say "see how much I care about the children" without the law producing any of the results that form the proposed need for the law.

now do illicit drugs