What next???

[mon]

I agree that people generally feel they shuold simply be able to choose whatever they want to ingest, healthy or no. Unfortunately there are many bad choices as well as good ones. It's pretty clear to me that some people will sell a person pretty much anything now a day to make a buck or two regardless if it makes the customer drop dead Large portions are kinda rampant in the U.S. though I think..

[smokey the elder]

So the distributed cost of society argument is old...it doesn't make it any less valid. BUT...some other mechanism of changing behavior may be suitable. My unscientific observation is that the presence of calorie counts on the food displays at fast food places at least makes people think about what they're eating, if only for a nanosecond.

Has there been regulatory creep? Absolutely! Has it been needed? That can be argued pro and con, and is a debate for another time.

[Lady's Human]

The basis of the United States has always been freedom, and banning and restrictions of anything, be it drugs or any other consumer product, just creates black markets and contempt for the law.

Make all the PSAs you want, but banning a super slurpy is just ridiculous. It would be one hell of an incentive for restaurants to move out of NYC proper and into the suburbs, though.