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All rules should be quantitative. Not qualitative. Qualitative: We are banning "junk food". (What constitutes junk food?) Quantitative: We are banning any foo

All rules should be quantitative. Not qualitative. Qualitative: We are banning "junk food". (What constitutes junk food?) Quantitative: We are banning any foods where the sugar content exceeds 1% (Where this number can become increasingly stricter) of the food's mass. eg. Coke is 9% sugar[0]; 39 / (355 + 39 + 39 + .045) = 0.09. [0] http://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/calories/coca-cola-12oz-canned-regular-coke-211966712 http://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/calories/coca-cola-12oz-can...

baddox 10y ago
Of course, that's a somewhat better idea, but I was specifically responding to a claim that banning McDonald's would have a positive effect on society. Your idea is inevitably going to have problems as well. What about selling table sugar itself? What about fruit, which can also be around 10% sugar? What about desserts and confectionery? Are we really wanting the government to ban those completely?