Astro
Truth

July 15, 2014 -- We are grateful to our San Francisco Supervisor Scott Wiener for District 8, where I live. He is a staunch supporter of the proposed "soda tax" about which I have written here, here and here. Thanks to his support, this proposal will be on the ballot in our enlightened City.

The toll of diabetes Meanwhile, our opponent -- Big Soda -- is mounting a deceptive yet well-funded "astroturf" (pseudo-grassroots) campaign decrying the high cost of living here. Taxing sweetened drinks, they say, makes our City even more expensive. Their brochure's headline is about high housing costs, a real problem, but has nothing to do with the poisons they sell to our children.

More than half of the metabolism-disrupting sugars ingested by children come from sweetened drinks. Regarding the high cost of the lifetimes of diabetes these products cause they are deathly silent.

Thank you, Supervisor Wiener, for telling the truth despite the astroturf.

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