I can't make it but I'm there in spirit!
I don't think opponents of the idiotic soda ban will win as the fascists in Albany - armed with the usual specious facts - will likely win but it's worth fighting.
All I can do is offer support from afar. If there's one thing I've learned in two years in a heavily regulated industry is that it's all arbitrary with little empirical evidence to justify have the rules we're compelled to follow.
It's just the way of things.
The prevailing attitude is captured perfectly by this ridiculous comment by a professor:
"One commenter, Rowan University Prof. Lawrence Weisberg, MD, claims the positive impact the ban will have will far outweigh“trivial issues of personal freedom” the ban raises."
Unfortunately, this is the norm I'm afraid. People just don't give a shit.
"Others supporting the ban include filmmaker Spike Lee (who argues, among other things, that “[c]hildren today in public schools across the country are not being taught art”), author Eric Schlosser (“Soda isn't food.”), and Jamie Oliver (“[W]e are way past the point where can trust people to make better choices. We have to help them make better choices.”)."
What point? What's his point of reference? Where's the proof? In England where they can barely tell the difference between a zucchini and a cucumber?
Pathetic. Just plain pathetic. And you're worse than pathetic for buying into this emotional travesty of nonsense.
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