If people enjoy something, 'it's illegal or immoral or it makes you fat'
Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi — PICTURE: THULANI MBELE It is not about sugar, tobacco, homeopathy, fat, salt, additives, cosmetics, colourants, faith healing, traditional medicine, liquor, social cost, baby food, junk food, unhealthy living, obesity, excessive TV, sedentary behaviour, tyres, sin, or whatever else that causes the jowls of lifestyle fascists to dribble gleefully when new measures are announced. It is about dignity, equality, liberty and consumer rights.My criticism in last week’s column of the "sugar tax" generated much feedback and confusion. During ensuing media interviews and debates, callers and hosts who condone lifestyle despotism babbled on about the supposed costs people who supposedly choose supposedly unhealthy lifestyles supposedly impose on "society". I knew that getting control freaks to respect compatriots was difficult, but had no idea how difficult it would be to get them to understand a simple principle. It is one thing to oppose liberty and equali...
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