Woo Switzerland!! That is so awesome! Hopefully other countries follow.
Also: "The governments of many European countries realized that it would be much easier to simply make people eat healthy food. Danish lawmakers introduced a tax for the content of fats in butter and vegetable oil. The tax is calculated from the weight of fats in products and makes up 16 Danish crowns ($2.9) per one kilo of saturated fat."
How true, and what a good idea! If they taxed unhealthy food and subsidized fruit & veg, then lower income people & families would be more likely to go for the healthier option and cook their own meals.
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Woo Switzerland!! That is so awesome! Hopefully other countries follow.
Also: "The governments of many European countries realized that it would be much easier to simply make people eat healthy food. Danish lawmakers introduced a tax for the content of fats in butter and vegetable oil. The tax is calculated from the weight of fats in products and makes up 16 Danish crowns ($2.9) per one kilo of saturated fat."
How true, and what a good idea! If they taxed unhealthy food and subsidized fruit & veg, then lower income people & families would be more likely to go for the healthier option and cook their own meals.
As good as that is, that could lead to dangerous political holes.
The Australian government taxes the hell out of cigerettes, alcohol and other "undesirable goods" (oxymoron) why shouldn't they tax trans fats when that likely leads to more deaths than smoking and drinking (heart disease, diabetes, obesity etc.): http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/Lookup/4102.0Main+Features30Jun+2010
On top of this, children need to be educated on diet and question the socially excepted "truths" about the health benefits of milk, eggs and meats instead of just sugar, drug and alcohol abuse.
