The title of the article says, “This city just banned candy from supermarket checkout aisles.” Now guess which city, and more particularly, what the political leanings of its goobermint might be.
Go on, guess.
Beginning in March 2021, Berkeley, California, will become the first US city to ban the sale of unhealthy food from supermarket checkout areas.
That liberal Bay Area city council unanimously voted Tuesday night that, starting next year, grocery stores larger than 2,500 square feet will be required to sell not the typical selection of junk food but 25 square feet of healthy items within the three-foot radius of the register.
The “healthy checkout” ordinance defines healthy as items containing five or less grams of added sugar and less than 250 milligrams of sodium per serving, according to ABC 7.
“We’re not saying you can’t have these goods. We’re just saying they’re not going to be right at the eye level of your children when they walk into the store and you’re waiting in that long line at check out,” Council Member Kate Harrison said. “We know that people that eat a lot of high-sugar and salty products have worse health outcomes and this particularly besets low-income communities and people of color.”
The decision is not intended as a punishment or a war on treats so much as a discouragement of poor eating habits, Harrison said.
“It’s not a ban, it’s a nudge,” she told CNN.
No no no, of course it isn’t. The ban comes along later.
Whatever would we benighted, igner’nt serfs DO without our Leftist lords and masters to make our decisions for us, according to what they in their infinite wisdom deem best?
Yeah, Bezerkley. I’m actually surprised it wasn’t San Francisco.
Like the Masks.
First it was a suggestion. Not enough people listened.
Then certain Leftist controlled areas mandated them. So people went to other places to shop. So then the Governors had to get involved and Mask Up the Whole State.
It’s never just a nudge. There is always the “nice business ya got, be a shame should something should happen to it” type of nudge. It escalates from there.
PS If Biden wins Masks will go National.