re: #671 Aceofwhat?

I don’t make any kind of distinction between those kinds of foods - I pick fast food because it’s the obvious example.

My formal position on this is not entirely fleshed out but would be something along the lines of: companies wishing to market and/or sell any product should compensate society for the external costs that it bears due to the increased consumption of those products.

In the real world, this means some kind of tax/regulation framework that, essentially, pays up front for the long-term costs of the products involved. And of course, the real world being what it is, the actual framework would not be overly complex - maybe different foods would be assigned a “level”, according to which their promotion would be regulated, or their sale would be taxed.

Note this is already what happens with cigarettes and alcohol, more or less.