Posts Tagged ‘Tax on sugar-sweetened drinks’
Sweet sophisms?
Not adopting a tax on sugary drinks as an initial step for a more comprehensive health strategy is tantamount to saying a few years ago that the seat belt should not be mandatory since the problem of traffic accidents is too complex and requires more comprehensive measures.
Read MoreObese and famished
According to the latest Survey on the Nutritional Situation of Colombians, which was released this week, overweight rates in adults and children increased. This revelation opened the debate once again to imposing limits on ultra-processed food advertising and a tax on sugary drinks.
Read MoreSugary censorship
It is unacceptable that an economic group uses its media outlets to restrict freedom of expression and silence critics of one of its companies.
Read MoreThe pressures that advocates for healthy food face
It is no secret that health activists, particularly those taking on the tobacco industry, have faced aggressive, illegal and corrupt tactics deployed by the industries that these activists battle.
Read MoreHealthy Food Activists: Old Tactics, New Victims
For no one is a secret that health activists have had to face tactical, illegal and corrupt agencies from the industries they fight. However, no one will suspect that food activists would also have to face these tactics. The infiltration of communications and censorship have become recurrent forms to stop their work in Latin America
Read MoreCensorship, a new ingredient in the sugary drinks debate?
Through a tutela initiative, citizens want that the television commercial on the possible health effects of sugary drinks that the Industry and Commerce Oversight Office prohibited is played again.
Read MoreIt is not only sugar: soda also uses more water than you can imagine
Shouldn’t consumers know how many hundreds of liters of water are used throughout the production chain of a liter of soda?
Read MoreTaxes in the sugar republic
It makes sense that if an idea is criticized by both extremes, it must have something good. What peace could not do, the sugary drinks tax achieved. The tax is being debated in Congress and brought together senators like Iván Duque and Jorge Enrique Robledo, which resist with equal force the measure.
Read MoreThe false publicity of sodas in Colombia
The strategy has associated sugary drinks with a healthy lifestyle, whether it has been through sponsoring sports teams or making them seem “cures” for hangovers.
Read MoreWe presented a tutela in favor of the right consumers have to receive information on the amount of sugarpresent in the beverages we drink
Dejusticia and other organizations filed a tutela regarding the Industry and Commerce Oversight Agency ban of a commercial by Educating Consumers that addressed health effects of excessive sugary drinks consumption.
Read MoreIncreasing support by health organizations for the sugary drinks tax
Sodas and cigarettes: healthy taxes
Visiting the San Francisco de Asís hospital in Quibdó is enough to understand why the tax reform is right to include taxes destined to public health.
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