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just because you can see violence it comes through doesn't mean others and there are make them visible visible. might violence against children. this is deja news and these are our top stories british prime minister bars johnson says the coronavirus variant 1st detected in the u.k. last year could be deadlier than previously thought and you taishan spread quickly in southern england in december and led other nations to impose fresh travel restrictions the u.k. has recorded nearly 96000 deaths the 5th highest toll in the world. germany has recorded more than 50000 deaths since the start of the pandemic the
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number has risen sharply over recent weeks though new infections are now finally declining health minister against funds says old overact scenes are providing hope and the case numbers are encouraging the figures are still too high. you know donald trump 2nd impeachment trial could begin in the u.s. as early as next week as speaker nancy pelosi plans to send the article of impeachment to the senate on monday hives as charged trumpet with inciting an insurrection at the u.s. capitol on january 6th the senate will decide whether to convict him trump has been in florida since joe biden's and over on wednesday. this is d w news from berlin follow us on twitter and instagram or visit our website dot com .
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10 years after egypt's failed revolution and author in exile speaks out most of. a lot of us want to his novel the republic of false truths tells the story of a revolution he says isn't over yet that's coming up on arts and culture. but 1st music fans were shocked last month when folk legend bob dylan sold his entire song catalog but dylan isn't the only star looking to cash out investors in this coronavirus economy are spending unheard of figures on old tunes there's more. bob dylan's deal was the biggest they felt star and nobel laureate 250000000 euros from universal music for an entire catalog of 600 songs played in a rocker neil young signed off a half share in his music rights to british company hypnosis which also bought out
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the song catalog of columbia superstar secure a. behind this investment gold rush is the boom in the online stream. something that really stopped that now i see it's used to be to take all sort of a new format our music the suit and it's been very strong run since then and even more people who invest into music are you right now it's also expected to continue to. hold music is making money again fleetwood mac's seventy's hit dreams have a streaming renaissance on tech cock but young artists who don't have a back catalogue of hits are being left with digital pennies one of my friends who is an extremely successful young songwriter and wrote a track. the biggest selling all the fastest selling number one album in the u.k. has made 100 pounds from the number one record which is ready. to pay your rent.
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so that when singer songwriter believe bragg however is optimistic young artists will find new ways to make money online without selling off their feet. from going will become huge already so we'll know the names of but many of them will find a way to make a living and be able to. enact the most important step in any of his career which is where you give up your right now day job and start to earn a living doing the thing you always love doing that that's a meta definition of singing. and hanging on to your right you have a better chance of doing that than you do if you give all your money away to a corporation just because they're going to pay you a huge amount of money one. eventually this online music gold rush could mean more money for music makers big and small.
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might call it a dream kennedy has more on this ok dream we just heard that this big sale of music rates could benefit all musicians but how exactly without work whether these music set off so if you like motivated by increasing streaming refuse and the speculation on the part of the bias is that if they amass big catalogues they can the for which that to get even more money from the streaming services and if that works that would benefit all musicians was ok i see it let's talk a little bit about the timing of this i'm wondering if it has anything to do with the coronavirus with mists revenues from tours that can't happen is that a factor well we asked about this it doesn't seem to be the case this trend began before the pandemic and analysts say that actually tax issues are a bigger factor especially in the us where higher taxes are feared under the new administration ok ok so
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a tax avoidance strategy for the already rich let's talk about musicians who are getting started what's their best bet well sing it billy bragg who we spoke to in that report was quite positive he pointed to new ways that musicians have of getting their music out there to just social media his big example was sea shanties tick-tock sensation nathan evans he started posting his covers of centuries old songs on tic-tac and sparked a. craze tick-tock now hosts 1600000000 see shanty videos and lo and behold breaking news evans has just signed to put it all records and has done just what frank talks about he's given up his day job as a postman surely be working to sell the rights or should he be keeping them adrian . history is littered with examples of people who sold the rights for lump sums but died destitute one counter example is dolly parton who didn't sell half the
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rights on her song i will always love you elvis presley's manager wanted elvis to sing it only if elvis got co-composer credit on it dolly parton said no way and payoff came 20 years on when the song was a massive hit for whitney houston and featured in the movie the bodyguard curse that held for dolly parton a very rich woman but we keep hearing about streaming and how artists really just don't make much on streaming where they don't the individual small but you can reach bigger audiences global audience is much more easily and most labels have strategies for expanding reach now we have an example of this in the news today billy irish singing in spanish for the very 1st time a collaboration with spanish singing. vidar we can take a quick listen i think.
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both are winning by expanding their audiences streaming revenues might be. a song for example bad guy has 1600000000 place today on one streaming service alone that can add up to some. you know i can't really do the math here and i know you're better at it thanks so much for bringing on this us this story on selling of song rights in the big bucks yes thank you well if i have a 1000000 i know where to invest it now and speaking of billy eilish it's been almost a year since her new song for the james bond film came out and now hollywood executives say it will be another 8 months before you can see the movie now if this sounds like old news to you that's because it's now the 3rd time that m.g.m.
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has pushed back the film's debut due to the coronavirus no time to die it was the 1st major movie delayed by the pandemic it was originally set to be released last april. and england one of europe's most famous gothic cathedrals has been turned into a coded 1000 vaccination center hundreds of elderly people have already received the pfizer vaccine in the cathedral's 800 year old knaves where there's plenty of room for social distancing they're also getting free concerts from organists who have been playing soothing music to help calm the patients nerves. and a very different tune and china young people there are out and back on the dance floor revelers in the former coronavirus epicenter have to get their temperature and their tracking app checked at the club door then it's masks off and party this saturday marks one year since we were on winds and the hard to walk down to try to
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stop the corona virus from spreading. on january 25th 2011 tens of thousands of egyptians took to the cairo's tahrir square demanding the ouster of dictator hosni mubarak soon mubarak was out but egypt's turmoil didn't end there now with another authoritarian president in power egyptian writer. one is remembering his country's failed revolution nearly 10 years ago and what could have been as novel the republic of false truths as drought this year in english. teacher actions took to the streets of cairo in january 20th levon hoping to bring about a new egypt they wanted democracy and an end to the mubarak regime. their protest was part of a movement across the region that became known as the arab spring. soon the thousands turned into millions farmers finding common cause with young people found
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intellectuals such as noted writer i'll ask one any d.w. interview he explained below the relevance of the old ruling party are still in power as are the old security forces the people are still being arrested and tortured but now we have a voice with the purpose of. 10 years on others one in noun lives in exile in new york his latest novel the republic of france truths which tells the tale of an unfinished revolution is said to be published in english this april for him the story is far from over i believe that egyptians or lead. in egypt despite the. egyptian. egyptians will leave. egypt should. forgive me i will shoot a lot. forget their 6 year. old age
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40 so. your that you are important and those young people will be getting you should they will know what. the novel 1st published in 2018 is about the 2011 protests recounts the story of those yearning for egypt to transition peacefully the young in the disillusioned who see an opportunity for something new but it's also the tale of those who fear. and against the protesters and stand alongside those in power. there was great hope when president hosni mubarak stepped down under the pressure but the people's disappointment was then all the greater once his old comrades in arms took over power palace wanny knows the subject of his tale all too well because he was one of the initiators of the demonstrations his novel doesn't tell how events transpired but we know the story where mubarak was brought to justice and sentenced to life in prison for corruption and abuse of office in 2012 the fundamentalist mohamed morsi of the muslim
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brotherhood then became president in 2013 the military completed a successful coup against morsi who was arrested since then i've done fattah el-sisi has been president of egypt in the country's darkest hour yet with a new war. everything. has to be approved by. many people i have fuel for egypt and the leg duals lot of multigrade. more still flood drugs. under our c c r as ronnie was immediately banned from publishing his work even though he's considered one of the leading writers of his home his novels and essays have been translated into nearly 60 languages and millions of copies have been sold but the arabic edition of his latest novel could no longer be published in egypt only in
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lebanon still l. as one e knows that despite the bam his book is selling has illegally pirated copies. swanny never wanted to leave egypt his homeland but when a military tribunal threatened to try him in court for insulting the authorities he went into exile in 2017. now living in new york he teaches at universities holds online writing workshops and publishes political analyses on you tube and he continues to write. well that's all for this edition of arts and culture but stay turns to d.w. in the coming days for more coverage of the 10th anniversary of the arab spring in egypt for now for me and all the crew here in berlin thanks for watching have a safe we got. a.
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the obesity epidemic as being the most important international health problem. let me does that body by 2030 half the world would be obese or overweight this is a disaster. it's a manmade tragedy. earlier in my life. i thought that my way it was all my fault. i felt like a failure. and frankly unworthy. and i took me a while to really start questioning beliefs and challenging those thoughts like
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well are you really a failure and the answer is no i'm not i'm not but it took awhile to get to that point. obesity a blob of our errors fantasies caught in a web of prejudice that prompts scolding for poor choices and accusations of laziness and departed genes provide an alibi. but what if obesity were a collective failure not an individual one the symptom of a free market that hates fat but produces fatsos and obesity genic society. it's a global phenomenon not one country has halted and. right now there are 2000000000 people adults and children who are overweight or obese
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this doesn't happen by magic it takes work and we need to look at her as he is driving the process. in the 1st years of the 21st century western countries declared war on obesity to no avail. experts estimate. that by 2030 there will be 250000000 obese children in the world. have our governments taken the right track. at least 2 thirds of men and women in the u.k. are overweight. and the right still climbing.
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the pace of life changing impacts on the can slowly lower your quality of life. according to the messages spread far and wide we alone are to blame for our weight fat people are simply gluttons unable to control their appetites. you have a choice make the change. we are told it's up to us but is it really. for me the most difficult stigma to cope with is this idea that the people have no will power the people in larger bodies people don't have a wall power earle's they wouldn't carry excess weight because we're told so often that that's all it takes to lose weight go to the gym follow this diet program you
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know if you just stick to it you'll get there. for public health officials were sure that a little personal willpower was all it would take to slay obesity eat less exercise more became the mantra of the 2 thousands it would go around the world. so let's start moving let's start pushing twisting climbing and raising the roof let's start moving more every day for 30 minutes or 60 and if you feel like stopping you can always start back up let's start moving it's so easy for us to look at a lean person and say they have such willpower they're so moral and strong and then look at someone with a weight problem and attribute all these negative traits oh they're just weak they don't have willpower it's not at the individual level it's not individual willpower
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and if we go on believing that will never change this obesity epidemic hey everybody you know getting active every day helps us all be helping them feel great . the same old ernest advice about exercise is profit with the best intentions in 2010 michelle obama launched a campaign against childhood obesity the 1st lady lent her sassy sashing to move your body aiming to set healthier standards for food served in school lunch room. we send our. kids to school we have a right to expect that they won't be eating the current of very salty sugary foods that we're trying to keep them from their income unfortunately you know michelle obama was on the right track right from the beginning and i think she got the railed by mixture of bad advisors and by bringing in the food the food companies and they were able to dilute
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a very powerful message down to something where you know it's just one type of television encouraging people to to move that way rather than let's move together. you know as a movement to be able to transform the food system. better became more. leon state easily upstaged the public service message. and it. was. a boon to the multinationals who quickly joined the dance in 2015 coca-cola created the global energy balance network a worldwide think tank dedicated to solving the obesity problem gets out by promoting exercise. most of the focus in the popular media and in the scientific press is over eating too much eating too much eating too much blaming fast food blaming sugary drinks and so on and there's really virtually no compelling evidence
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that that in fact is the cause professor steve blair is one of the head researchers recruited for the network he's a specialist in physical exercise but maybe the reason they are eating more calories than they need is because they're not burning man so we need to be invalid in just a few years due to this campaign spearheaded by coca-cola the lack of exercise has become central to the question of obesity whereas it is based on a theory that was pulled out of a hat to defend the corporation's product and private interest. just gonna be ok here's how that translates into marketing she. just gonna be the industry has been so focused on the story of calories and calories out you can drink what you want just go go on a jog and work off your calories. well we know that actually is not true that's not
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the true story. allegedly to avoid waking we would simply have to burn the same number of calories as we eat the theory sounds logical unfortunately it is untrue physical exercise actually plays a minor role in weight control you have to jog for one hour to eliminate a hamburger a piece of though requires over 2 hours of running. if you look at it from a calorie perspective that is 5 accumulation equals sort of calories then minus calories out of this a well that's always true because if you look at it from from a physics perspective but is always true but the problem is that that's physics and we're dealing with human physiology it really has nothing to do with each other. i think we should take the focus off of calories yes you can eat less and lose weight for a short while but your body will fight back and over the long term we know that
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metabolism is stronger than willpower. if individual willpower is not to blame what caused the steep rise near b.c.g. curve starting in the 1980 s. . so what's the difference between 197-2009 teen well i don't think it's the basic biology of the person but it's something to do with the way that we both the types of food and the frequency of the foods that we eat. in 40 years our eating habits of undergone a real revolution fomented by public health policies of the late 1970 s. at the time cardiovascular disease was the grim reaper causing millions of deaths. in the senate special committee on nutrition is looking into the connection between diet and hotness. the sugar lobby succeeded in having
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a high fat diet declared guilty a false verdict that had serious consequences public health officials recommended that we reduce our intake of fats grains touted as cholesterol free replaced meat as a staple food. and so eating more brad more rice market tadros for example because they're very low fat and you know eating less dairy less meat low fat dairy that kind of thing that was the standard advice for so many years and i think that is the most likely culprit as to why people have gained weight the u.s. government called on the food industry to market thousands of processed foods that were reduced in fat and saturated fat so if you're in the food industry and you're supposed to reduce fat what are you going to replace it with or processed grains and sugar. agro industry sleight of hand made the transition
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painless sugar a cheap replacement for fat made light foods tasty and addictive chemists went to work extruding ingredients supermarket shelves filled with attractively package starches reprocessed as bread corn flakes and convenience foods. eating excessive sugar causes deep dysfunctions inside our bodies starting with the hormone imbalance. when you eat certain hormones go up and the main hormone that's a volved in energy metabolism is insulin insulin determines where the calories we eat get burned or get stored as fat. glucose sugar that is fuels nearly our living cells when we eat our pancreas secretes insulin. and this insulin is what transports sugar to ourselves. when our diets are
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heavy in foods that are starchy and sweet by processed foods in fact our insulin levels are constantly high. with too much insulin our fat cells the fat tissue and our body takes up too many calories and holds on to them so there aren't enough calories for the rest of the body there aren't enough calories for the muscle for the organs of the brain. and that's why we get hungry. so these highly processed foods fast foods sugary beverages junk foods that we're snacking on they digest very quickly but they don't provide much sit tight so it's these processed carbohydrates the driveway. despite the negative impact these ultra processed foods have on
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a metabolism nothing has stopped their spring. it's profitable to sell food versus fast and sugary and salty and addictive it's much less profitable. food that is wholesome that is high in fiber. is minimally processed so what's driving the obesity epidemic it's corporate profits. this dietary revolution has sponsored empire's nestle unilever coca-cola kellogg's pepsi co. currently a handful of huge corporations own nearly every brand of food together they pull and $500000000000.00 in annual sales and have taken control of our dinner plate. food is a huge sector of our society it's not only the food companies it's not just the
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nestle's and then gnomes and cokes and pepsis it's the food retailers it's the wal marts and car reformers it's the agribusiness is they're huge to control all the supplies of commodities and then it also the marketers it's all the advertisers making money from marketing junk food and beverages to people so we're talking about a math of massive component of our society is focused on selling the world unhealthy foods and beverages. the food multinationals have a secret weapon price the products they sell are up to 60 percent cheaper than fresh foods the shoppers with the smallest budgets stock up. these low income consumers sitting ducks are the primary victims of the system.
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the food industry says it's your fault but the reality is they've changed the whole food environment they've created a food environment where every place you turn if it's on your smartphone if it's on seeing a billboard it's seeing any kind of advertisement if it's watching television or movies you see their junk food being pushed. the manipulation starts with the children and the. scientific studies show there is a direct link between the ads children see and the types of food they like to eat. the world health organization recommends regulating food commercials on t.v. at the end history is ingenuous infiltrates new areas like social networks or online games. slick marketing hides the fact that
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junk food causes one of the most devastating diseases that exists diabetes. today it kills one person every 6 seconds around the world. 25 years ago if i told you that i have an 18 year old patient in my clinic with type 2 diabetes you would have said oh my gosh it's incredible it's so rare it's so strange. now it's very commonplace that young people children have type 2 diabetes current. but. we're like fighting a war at home. it's heartbreaking it's unfair it's unjust people are making money off of this suffering it's preventable it's dehumanizing to ignore it it's inhumane to ignore it.
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one of every 2 african-american children go to philip diabetes one of every 5 african american children is obese the rate is even higher among hispanics. a young woman spoke out and triggered a rebellion. we are. likely to lose slaves yesterday i decided to write down for me it is in my day to day that 1st there was a 1000000 things. and never should or flour sugar carjacker made it through post force our way counter high fructose corn syrup chips are down above 40 . i heard a young woman who was 16 at the time and she performed a poem that even now it may have made the hair on my arms stand up and for the 1st time i saw
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a young person describing the obesity and diabetes epidemic as a social problem and i realized that she in a way is a much more effective messenger than i ever could be if my mother is the 1st given out. by the line he. is like. dean schillinger is cordoning the energy. his nonprofit youth speaks to holtz writing workshops for young people in the bay area. he wants to use rap and spoken word to raise consciousness and for it food industry propaganda . this idea that they were being lied to. that's what inspired them to become change agents that's what turned their pom from being a piece of art into
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a weapon. armed with talent and a video camera they launched an awareness campaign called the bigger picture. so for me each one of those films was a stone. that we were throwing at. the water hole and trying to see which one could make the biggest way. i want to resume. my daily routine was to wake up time to walk to the bus stop passing the liquor stores gas cap buy past the 1st burger king i need for the 2nd burger king or in my favor round hash browns a lost again brown body. and i don't know if we love burger king i just love not being hungry. written and performed chiefly by young hispanics and african-americans the videos garnered over a 1000000 views on you tube. meanwhile
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3000 miles away on the east coast another activist has risen up and commandeered a podium to tell a community it is being decimated and how. this is a crisis in our community f m a s a crisis because i'm finding that i'm losing more people to sweets than i am to the streets and i'm losing more people took diet related issues that i am to the streets to gun violence this is an epidemic and one that i'm deeply concerned about . or already in his combat against this evil reverend coats is not inhibited by the conventions associated with his calling. this can of soda pop right there are 39 grams of sugar 39 grams of sugar in one so now how many teaspoons of sugar is that anyone know how. almost
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10 disposals i say want to see how much did it and maybe a half. this is how much sugar. isn't just one drink right. and our children are getting pre-diabetic by the ages of 19. borderline diabetes by the time to 30 years old and we are sabotaging the time a generation of hot people because of sugar pastor william more of an delman coats at mount annan baptist church in clinton maryland are suing coca-cola and the american beverage association. writers do this. the war had moved to the court room delman could stand to sic the law on the coca-cola corporation.
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we know that the consumption of sugar and these products exceed the american heart association what are you asking for from coca-cola well what do you want this company we want coca-cola to end their deceptive marketing practices they have spent 120000000 dollars and 5 years between 201-2015 falsely advertising a product. the multinational retaliated by accusing the pastors and freedom of speech violations. and after suing for legal expenses a threat with several $1000000.00 coca-cola now demands that the king's speech dropped. coca-cola statement the allegations here are likewise legally and factually meritless and we will vigorously defend against them. the allegations are that coca-cola misled
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consumers about the science of sugar sweetened beverages because several of their executives with the press and made statements like there is no link between sugar sweetened beverages and diabetes we know that is not the case. for over 20 years the soft drink industry has denied any link between its products and disease to maintain the illusion it employs all sorts of methods since 2015 coca leaks has revealed that the lobby puts pressure on journalists keeps discredit on studies it dislikes finances favorable research and hobnobs with political leaders. to ensure those results contact was established within the senate we will actively campaign to register that a soft drink tax is discriminatory regressive and will not address the challenge of obesity we have commissioned the economic institute to complete
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a study which will prove inefficiency of such tax it will be ready in 15 days which will give us another tool to communicate both to the media and to avoid it gains ground within the party. appointed to serve as a scientific expert by the city and county of san francisco deen should linger must untangle the truth from falsehood when we did the analysis of these studies we found that every study that found that there was no association between sugary beverage consumption and obese in diabetes was funded in some way by the industry. whereas among all the studies that found that there was an association between the consumption of soda and sugary beverages and obese and diabetes except for one were independently funded so we now know and there's other evidence that industry has been. influencing very deeply the medical and scientific establishment to create controversy over the question of whether their products cause disease.
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the junk food industry is cornered all over the globe activists are demanding tighter legislation to protect consumers the battle has now become political. in the 30 years since warning labels and other forms of regulation were placed on tobacco over 1000000000 the lives have been saved. so that's a pretty good day at the office for people who make policy. cohen and one of her fellow supervisors have made san francisco the 1st u.s. city to declare war on sugary sodas. when people realize how much sugar they're consuming in one can of soda they stop
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and they think so we had testimony right here in this chamber of doctors of nurses of researchers that talk to us about the effects of sugar in our body and it was through these ongoing dialogues for years that we came up with that idea to begin to tax sugary beverages. imposing a tax is virtually revolutionary in the united states the industry range it's pitch the line that the government was interfering with grocery shoppers the beverage the sugary beverage and history came out they hired lawyers they hired lobbyists they found people within the community to come out and say please don't tell us what to eat or what to drink this is not a nanny state we want to make decisions on our own they spent millions of dollars as a matter of fact they outspent us almost $6.00 to $1.00 break i can decide what to buy without government help the government is just getting too involved in our
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personal lives tell the candidates government. health advocates were able to mobilize citizen protests against the recalcitrant industry we're going to. this bad doctors and politicians lining up outside of san francisco city hall framing the sugar sweetened beverage debate as the people versus big soda you no longer think back and let the big soda and history target and hurt our community. the tax was finally voted in. the victory was bitter. when san francisco moved to require health warnings on soda containers like the ones on cigarettes the soft drink lobby sued once again and won on appeal. the warning labels were shelved. the same method had been used in new york city when mayor michael bloomberg
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suggested a long limiting the size of jumbo soda sold in restaurants. bloomberg was mocked as a scolding nanny and the courts ruled in the industry's favor. in this faceoff between corporate freedom and consumer protection freedom once again seem to be the private property of the most powerful i represent a part of san francisco that was emigrate people people who speak english as a 2nd language people who live in subsidized housing public housing tenements and the one thing that we all had in common was that we were dying from preventable diseases dying and you know it was just really hard to accept. and
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