The UK has recently introduced a 'sugar tax' on soft drinks. Try buying a soft drink without artificial sweeteners in. Then there's the 'may contain nuts' probl

The UK has recently introduced a 'sugar tax' on soft drinks. Try buying a soft drink without artificial sweeteners in. Then there's the 'may contain nuts' problem, if a manufacturer can't definitively say that a product doesn't contain hormones they'll just cover themselves by not guaranteeing it. So no it wouldn't really be the choice of individual buyers.