San Francisco wants to control what you eat

Food choices? Those are for the authorities to decide. That’s the connection down a suit filed by San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu against "some of the country’s largest manufacturers of ultra-processed foods."  

It is the archetypal authorities suit successful the federation against nutrient companies. Chiu’s office claims "the proliferation of ultra-processed foods successful the American fare has been linked to a big of superior wellness conditions," and has imposed "untold healthcare costs connected Americans, arsenic good arsenic cities and states crossed the nation." The suit argues that the nutrient manufacture is alert that its products person been making radical sick, yet it continues "to devise and marketplace progressively addictive and harmful products successful bid to maximize profits." 

The defendants are immoderate of the largest players successful the nutrient world. Kraft Heinz Co., Post Holdings, the Coca-Cola Co., PepsiCo, General Mills, Nestle USA, the Kellogg Co., Mars, Inc. and ConAgra Brands now have to defend themselves for choices made by consumers who request their legally manufactured and sold merchandise.  

"They took nutrient and made it unrecognizable and harmful to the quality body. We indispensable beryllium wide that this is not astir consumers making amended choices. Recent surveys amusement Americans privation to debar ultra-processed foods, but we are inundated by them. These companies engineered a nationalist wellness crisis, they profited handsomely, and present they request to instrumentality work for the harm they person caused," said Chiu.

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Potato chips are displayed astatine a store successful New York, connected March 25, 2021. (AP/Mark Lennihan)

No 1 lives nether the delusion that Twinkies are healthy, oregon that guzzling a six-pack of Coca-Cola each time is simply a astute choice. But consuming what is considered junk nutrient arsenic good arsenic "ultra-processed" fare is simply a prime freely made. Despite our bounty of nutritious options, adjacent the astir health-conscious volition astatine times opt for nutrient that isn’t considered steadfast but tin beryllium delicious.  

Chiu and nutrient activists transportation connected arsenic if the nutrient manufacture offers lone the worst selections possible. They ne'er fuss to inquire if immoderate nine successful quality past ever had truthful galore choices of, and specified casual accessibility to prime food, due to the fact that they won’t like the answer. 

Limiting nutrient choices seldom "result in better options oregon health for consumers" anyway, says the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Restrictions "typically rise the outgo of surviving for those slightest capable to spend it, portion causing different perverse and perchance hazardous consequences."

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"Some rules are intended to trim choices oregon to discourage consumers from choosing peculiar goods oregon services" – isn’t this Chiu’s goal? – and "whatever the intent, authorities regularisation needfully imposes costs connected producers and consumers, reduces choice, and alters user behavior—not ever for the better."  

There’s more than conscionable a nanny-state mindset astatine work regarding the lawsuit. The consciousness of a shakedown is strong. While Chiu wants to unit the companies to halt what helium calls "deceptive marketing," and demands they "take enactment to close oregon lessen the effects of their behavior," helium besides wants their money. His bureau is seeking "restitution and civilian penalties to remedy the nationalist nuisance and assistance section governments offset astronomical healthcare costs associated with ultra-processed nutrient consumption."

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Chiu adjacent brings up "Big Tobacco," which agreed to wage states $206 billion over 25 years as a effect of the 1998 maestro colony with litigious attorneys general, who cited the wellness harm of smoking successful their lawsuits. But alternatively than usage the funds to amended nationalist health, wrong the archetypal decade, authorities governments had spent them "on purposes different than what was designated," Citizens Against Government Waste said, utilizing the "constant watercourse of their baccy windfall to bash astir thing they want."  

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in 2024 that lone 1 state, Maine, utilized its wealth from the colony and funds from a $1.1 billion e-cigarette colony to wage for baccy prevention astatine the CDC’s recommended level. Just 8 states spent much than half, portion 31 and the District of Columbia spent little than a quarter.

Limiting nutrient choices seldom "result in better options oregon health for consumers" anyway, says the Competitive Enterprise Institute. 

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San Francisco adjacent feasted connected baccy money, gobbling up $539 cardinal from the maestro settlement.  

It adds up to a gleaming jackpot for authorities officials. They get to exert power implicit the lives of others, and rake successful idiosyncratic else’s dollars they tin walk arsenic they privation portion doing it.    

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