It adds up to a gleaming jackpot for government officials. They get to exert control over the lives of others, and rake in someone else’s dollars they can spend as they wish while doing it.
Food choices? Those are for the government to decide. That’s the message behind a lawsuit filed by San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu against “some of the country’s largest manufacturers of ultra-processed foods.”
It is the first government lawsuit in the nation against food companies. Chiu’s office claims “the proliferation of ultra-processed foods in the American diet has been linked to a host of serious health conditions,” and has imposed “untold healthcare costs on Americans, as well as cities and states across the nation.” The lawsuit argues that the food industry is aware that its products have been making people sick, yet it continues “to devise and market increasingly addictive and harmful products in order to maximize profits.”
Nothing contained in this blog is to be construed as necessarily reflecting the views of the Pacific Research Institute or as an attempt to thwart or aid the passage of any legislation.
San Francisco wants to control what you eat
Kerry Jackson
It adds up to a gleaming jackpot for government officials. They get to exert control over the lives of others, and rake in someone else’s dollars they can spend as they wish while doing it.
Food choices? Those are for the government to decide. That’s the message behind a lawsuit filed by San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu against “some of the country’s largest manufacturers of ultra-processed foods.”
It is the first government lawsuit in the nation against food companies. Chiu’s office claims “the proliferation of ultra-processed foods in the American diet has been linked to a host of serious health conditions,” and has imposed “untold healthcare costs on Americans, as well as cities and states across the nation.” The lawsuit argues that the food industry is aware that its products have been making people sick, yet it continues “to devise and market increasingly addictive and harmful products in order to maximize profits.”
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Nothing contained in this blog is to be construed as necessarily reflecting the views of the Pacific Research Institute or as an attempt to thwart or aid the passage of any legislation.