YOU are a chemical process. Not a person in pursuit of happiness, just chemicals agglomerated at birth and dissipated at death. You exist, according to your health ministry, to perpetuate the process. It hates the fact that you might be happy. Pleasure without "nutritional value" is taboo. You must have a long, miserable life.Tax on sugar-sweetened beverages is the bitter-sweet flavour of the month. Initially, only fat people will be taxed. Other sugar sources — sugared tea and coffee, sweets, cakes, wine and spirits, bread, rice and potatoes, salad dressing, sauces and pastes, fruit juice and flavoured water, preservatives and flavourings — will follow.Sugar-sweetened beverages tax is just the start. You are also not allowed to like fatty meat, dairy products, salted crisps and nuts, fine wine, greasy breakfasts or fast food. No matter what you eat, if you eat enough to be overweight, your lifestyle will join the falling dominoes of liberty. Our ministry is shameless about goose-st...
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