{"id":2234,"date":"2012-06-11T08:35:46","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T13:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gastronomyatbu.wordpress.com\/?p=2234"},"modified":"2018-03-28T17:53:12","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T21:53:12","slug":"food-news-round-up-soda-size-squabbles-and-other-tidbits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gastronomyblog\/2012\/06\/11\/food-news-round-up-soda-size-squabbles-and-other-tidbits\/","title":{"rendered":"Food News Round Up: Soda Size Squabbles and Other Tidbits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gastronomyblog\/files\/2012\/06\/soda-sugar-stacks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-2235\" title=\"Soda Sugar Stacks\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gastronomyblog\/files\/2012\/06\/soda-sugar-stacks.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a>Everyone and their mother has an opinion on New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/05\/31\/nyregion\/bloomberg-plans-a-ban-on-large-sugared-drinks.html\" target=\"_blank\">proposal to limit restaurant soft-drink servings to 16 ounces<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Will it help create a healthier food environment?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><\/em><em>Will it help citizens to make healthier choices?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><\/em><em>Will it limit choice?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><\/em><em>Will it eradicate freedom as we know it?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here are a selection of points of view on the issue, in no particular order:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mark Bittman encourages, <a href=\"http:\/\/bittman.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/06\/06\/limit-soda-for-kids-sake\/\" target=\"_blank\">limit soda for kids sake<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Former Coke marketing executive, Todd Putnam, <a href=\"http:\/\/mobile.washingtonpost.com\/rss.jsp;jsessionid=7252A31083A9775CC1025B49D3A6573E?rssid=863&amp;item=http%3a%2f%2fwww.washingtonpost.com%2fnational%2fhealth-science%2fformer-coke-executive-slams-share-of-stomach-marketing-campaign%2f2012%2f06%2f07%2fgJQAKwgKMV_mobile.mobile&amp;cid=-1&amp;spf=1\" target=\"_blank\">speaks out against soda<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/video.msnbc.msn.com\/nbc-news\/47727244\/#47727244\" target=\"_blank\">Soda Summit<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Current Coke president <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/money\/industries\/food\/story\/2012-06-07\/coke-q-and-a-coca-cola-mayor-bloomberg\/55453016\/1\" target=\"_blank\">answers questions on sugary drinks<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Huffington Post&#8217;s experts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/06\/04\/new-york-soda-ban_n_1567816.html\" target=\"_blank\">argue both sides of the issue<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The Wall Street Journal takes it <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/AP1e90c56a15fa4b8cbc68e1a52be782b4.html\" target=\"_blank\">from the drink makers\u2019 point of view<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Journalist describes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/business\/soda-makers-in-a-1451241.html\" target=\"_blank\">cola civil war<\/a> over soda size ban<\/li>\n<li>TIME <a href=\"http:\/\/healthland.time.com\/2012\/05\/31\/bloombergs-soda-ban-and-other-sweeping-health-measures-in-new-york-city\/\" target=\"_blank\">reviews the proposal and offers a brief history of Bloomberg\u2019s nudges<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Journalist imagines full ban comes next, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2012\/06\/soda_ban_speakeasies.html\" target=\"_blank\">predicts soda speakeasies<\/a><\/li>\n<li>News summarizes\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2012\/05\/your_reaction_new_york_city_ma.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY\/NJ public reactions on Twitter<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Center for Consumer Freedom <a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumerfreedom.com\/2012\/06\/the-reviews-are-in-new-yorks-great-dictator-a-massive-flop\/\" target=\"_blank\">calls Bloomberg \u201cdictator\u201d and dresses him as \u201cnanny\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Center for Science in the Public Interest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cspinet.org\/new\/201206071.html\" target=\"_blank\">cites surprising support for soda curbing<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Food Safety News predicts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodsafetynews.com\/2012\/06\/soda-ban-unpopular-and-likely-to-happen\/\" target=\"_blank\">soda size limit likely to pass<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>And in other food news:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Disney to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/money\/advertising\/story\/2012-06-05\/disney-advertising-to-kids\/55385470\/1\" target=\"_blank\">ban junk food marketing on children\u2019s programming<\/a><\/li>\n<li>2012 London <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhpr.org\/post\/olympic-task-finding-good-food-games\" target=\"_blank\">Olympics food criticized<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Mark Kurlansky discusses <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/opinion\/commentary\/la-oe-kurlansky-birdseye-food-locavore-20120610,0,5985376.story\" target=\"_blank\">Clarence Birdseye, frozen food foodies, and new book<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Celebrity chefs join <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2012\/jun\/05\/news\/la-pn-celebrity-chefs-join-farm-bill-food-fight-20120604\" target=\"_blank\">farm bill food fight<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone and their mother has an opinion on New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg&#8217;s proposal to limit restaurant soft-drink servings to 16 ounces. Will it help create a healthier food environment?\u00a0 Will it help citizens to make healthier choices?\u00a0 Will it limit choice?\u00a0 Will it eradicate freedom as we know it? Here are a selection [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14625,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gastronomyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gastronomyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gastronomyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gastronomyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14625"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gastronomyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gastronomyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8452,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gastronomyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234\/revisions\/8452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gastronomyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gastronomyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/gastronomyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}