Alex Goetzfried
JRN3060
A war is being waged in New York City, and many citizens are afraid that their rights are being taken away. Mayor Bloomberg has successfully passed a ban on New Yorker’s right to sit down and ingest a gallon of diabetes inducing soft drinks at their free will. Many are up in arms over the controversial ban, and some judges have already refused to uphold it.
The real question here is can the government tell people what to drink and eat? And if they are given that right where does it end? Will they be allowed to go to fine dining restaurants and ban foie gras like California has done? On the other hand America is an obese country ridden with diabetes and other maladies directly related to poor diet. What’s wrong with a politician wanting to make his constituents healthier and stronger, while also taking some of the pressure off of the healthcare system?
For this article I will interview convenience store owners, doctors, dieticians, nutritionists as well as average New Yorkers who agree and disagree with the ban.
