April 2013 - MyChoice Australia

Denmark to Repeal Tax on Soda and Beer

26 Apr, 2013 admin_ata

Last year we reported that Denmark had scrapped their “fat tax”. Now, in a further blow to bully-state paternalist, the Danish government has agreed to repeal the “soda tax” and cut the beer tax by 15%: The Danish government is abandoning a beverage tax that it says is costing the country millions of euros as consumers cross the border to shop in Germany instead. The tax on soft drinks is to be halved by July and completely abolished by next year, making a 1.5-liter bottle of soda three kroner (€0.40) cheaper…

Nanny State Holding Australia Back

23 Apr, 2013 Lara

Australians are paying more than the rest of the world for just about everything, thanks to nanny state lifestyle taxes. A recent survey from Deutsche Bank shows just how bad things have become: Australia is already being left behind, with one of the highest costs of living and holidaying in the world. Australians know this all too well – the costs of housing, electricity, water, health, education, having fun, and everything in between are rising steeply and have been for a decade – with too may Australians left struggling to…

Plain Packaging For Food: Coming Sooner Than You Think

23 Apr, 2013 admin_ata

When plain packaging for tobacco was introduced in Australia, we pointed out this would soon lead to calls for plain packaging for alcohol, for food, etc. This claim was ridiculed by Australia’s Chief Bully-Statist, sociologist Simon Chapman: Look, if the slope is slippery, it’s the most unslippery slippery dip I’ve ever seen in my life. The “domino theory” i.e. that once a measure has been applied to tobacco it will be applied to other products is patently false. The slippery slope metaphor was given its biggest ever workout… Of course, the calls soon started….

Public Health: Proud Enemies Of Freedom

19 Apr, 2013 admin_ata

Dick Puddlecote writes from over in the UK on the shocking attack on our freedoms by the public health lobby: Neatly following on from yesterday’s article on the misapplication of Baroness Thatcher’s “no such thing as society” quote, it appears again in a Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems (SHAAP) document published on Monday [pdf]. Proving yet again that modern public health is more a vehicle for far left agitpropthan impartial and sober evidence provision, SHAAP publishes this astounding paragraph on page 9. […] there is an increasing antagonism by some against any form of regulation, aligned…

The Real Story on So-Called “Food Addiction”

18 Apr, 2013 admin_ata

Via the Center for Consumer Freedom: The latest tactic by the nation’s food police is to classify foods as “foods of abuse” that are “addictive”and that should be regulated liketobacco cigarettes,alcohol, oreven marijuana. Fortunately for gourmands gobbling gouda and commoners chomping on cheeseburgers alike, there is considerable evidence that this slipshod approach to neuroscience is fatally flawed. The European Food Information Council recently released a synopsisof two Cambridge University efforts to scrutinize the existing data ostensibly supporting the theory,which we have noted before. The researchers’ overwhelming conclusion is that the theory that…