Sugar tax

Well, it's a step in the right direction, but continuing pressure on the food and drink industry to be more responsible is needed. Apparently the money from this tax will be ring-fenced for primary school sports and if that is really what happens it'll be a win-win move! 

The drinks manufacturers will either make drinks smaller but not lower price or put price up or both. It is just indirect taxation. Taxation of 18-24p, really? What a joke the whole sorry farrago is

I doubt that it will stop kids drinking so many bottles of pop......they seem to have a bottle permanently in their hand (do they have some strange, congenital thirst syndrome or something?). Whether it costs another 20p or not won't make any difference, because mum or dad will just cough up the extra.

But hopefully it might make the manufacturers put less sugar in the stuff, to avoid the tax.

Yes, parents do have a role to play - stop buying it!

Education hasn't worked. 

This isn't aimed just at the consumer, it makes manufacturers pay so they will be looking at their formulas to avoid it. 

I wish it included milk shakes and smoothies too. Both can contain more sugar than Coke and the health benefits are extremely dubious 

It doesn't make any logical sense, the tax is supposed to go towards providing healthy activities for children. The manufacturers will reduce the sugar content and there will be no tax to boost healthy activities. Whether families or individuals will commit themselves to reducing their sugar intake is the big hurdle that probably needs promoting.

The sugar tax is a step in the right direction. The best way to ensure that kids dond drink or eat sugary products is to fine the parents for child neglect/abuse for allowing their children to consume the stuff. 

Parental responsibility is at an all time low nowadays.

K

The sugar tax is a step in the right direction. The best way to ensure that kids dond drink or eat sugary products is to fine the parents for child neglect/abuse for allowing their children to consume the stuff. 

Parental responsibility is at an all time low nowadays.

K

Thanks for the kind words K 

Why not burn the parents at the stake 'K'. Gawd, they were good times

If it means bumping up consumption of horrid chemical sweeteners it will be really bad news IMO.  Give me a small amount of sugar any day.

If it means bumping up consumption of horrid chemical sweeteners it will be really bad news IMO.  Give me a small amount of sugar any day.

I agree entirely Pippah.  I am quite addicted to sugar, I guess.  I can't drink a cup of tea without sugar but absolutely hate sweeteners in any form.  If the only choice is a cuppa with sweetness or no sugar, then I would just go without the drink - every time!

David