What’s really behind the soda industry’s ‘choice’ rhetoric
by: Heather Gehlert
posted on Monday, July 30, 2012
Following New York City’s public hearing on Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s proposal to cap soda sizes at 16 ounces, critics pushed back, saying the proposal “restricts choice.” The trouble is, those critics don’t explain whose choice is being restricted. And that’s because the answer is soda companies’.
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