Government environmental and public health proposals could drive up the price of grocery bills for poor Britons by 11 per cent — in what would be the equivalent of their spend on fresh vegetables, according to a food industry body.
Britons should eat one-third less meat, and salt and sugar must be taxed, according to a review commissioned by the government, which also recommends subsidies from the taxpayer to promote the development of “alternative proteins”, which could include lab-grown meat.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that he has ditched his “Libertarian” stance on obesity after his bout with the Chinese coronavirus, and will reportedly pursue nanny state-style regulations in a push to get Britons “fitter”.
Targets set by Public Health England to cut the sugar in confectionary could see some sweets disappear off the shelves altogether, a think tank has warned, saying the move could constitute “the largest extension of state control over the British diet since rationing”.
Restaurants and supermarkets have been told to shrink pizzas or remove toppings under “drastic” new government plans to calorie cap thousands of foods sold in the UK.
Theresa May has ditched a number of key elements of the proposed anti-obesity strategy, considering them to be “nanny state” policies. Anti-sugar campaigners have reacted furiously, but anti-sugar tax campaigners have welcomed the move. A proposed ban on junk food
Connecticut Democrat Rep. Rosa DeLauro is hailing Philadelphia’s new soda tax and urging Congress to pass her own bill that would create a one-cent tax on every teaspoon of sugar or high-fructose corn syrup.
National Review columnist, Opportunity Lives panelist, and Steamboat Institute Senior Fellow Tom Rogan argued “as conservatives, we do have to have that debate about things like sugar taxes” and said that he’s “very sympathetic to Michelle Obama” on Friday’s “McLaughlin
Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne faces yet another budget headache as his plans for a sugar tax look set to face a legal challenge being considered by soft drinks manufacturers. Already facing a politically damaging and financially costly U-turn
Socialised healthcare means socialised health — what else did you expect? Most people in this country delegate their healthcare to the most fabulously Byzantine and staggeringly expensive insurance scheme ever conceived. Yet because the National Health Service (NHS) — unlike most
Britain will introduce a sugar tax on soft drinks in 2018, the ‘Conservative’ Chancellor George Osborne announced on Wednesday. The shock announcement hit share prices in drinks and sugar firms, while left-wing campaigners celebrated the move. Just months after the government
Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) is set to introduce its very own sugar tax in a bid to cajole government ministers into rolling out the tax country-wide. Drinks and snacks sold in cafes, shops and vending machines on NHS premises will
British doctors are calling for a 20 percent tax to be levied on sugar in a bid to cut the obesity epidemic. But low tax campaigners have said that such a tax would “hit the poorest hardest” and have accused
