ESCLUSIVO: L’UE vuole tassare gli alimenti malsani e gli alcopop nell’ambito del progetto di piano per la salute cardiaca
https://www.euractiv.com/news/eu-wants-to-tax-unhealthy-food-and-alcopops-by-2026-under-heart-health-plan/
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ESCLUSIVO: L’UE vuole tassare gli alimenti malsani e gli alcopop nell’ambito del progetto di piano per la salute cardiaca
https://www.euractiv.com/news/eu-wants-to-tax-unhealthy-food-and-alcopops-by-2026-under-heart-health-plan/
di ReadToW
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Now, that is something I can get behind. Not their stupid chat control
The EU should start a real fight against ultra-processed foods.
I like these proposals (This is not from the article, just a suggestion):
https://youtu.be/5QOTBreQaIk?t=3326
Chris van Tulleken’s Key Policy Solutions
1. **Front-of-pack warning labels** – clear signs (like Chile’s black labels) for sugar, salt, fat, and “ultra-processed.”
2. **Disclose ultra-processing** – require packaging to state if a food is *ultra-processed (UPF)* by NOVA standards.
3. **Tax UPFs, subsidize real food** – make fresh foods cheaper and processed ones less profitable.
4. **Restrict health claims** – no “high protein” or “natural” marketing on products full of additives.
5. **Keep Big Food out of policy** – ban lobbying and sponsorship from food corporations in health policy.
6. **Remove UPFs from public institutions** – serve real food in schools, hospitals, and prisons.
7. **Invest in cooking and food education** – teach food literacy and cooking skills, not calorie counting.
8. **Track and publish UPF data** – hold governments accountable for national food quality.
9. **Regulate UPFs like tobacco** – use the same tools: taxes, warnings, and advertising bans.
10. **Ban junk food marketing to children** – stop advertising UPFs on TV, online, and in schools.
What is ultra-processed food? – The Food Chain podcast, BBC World Service https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkM6jC_-PBQ
Junk food, sugar and additives – The dark side of the food industry | DW Documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myv7yydtCKc
No need to, Fico is already taxing sugar and salt because he needs another mansion!
If they actually manage to introduce the parts banning lobbying etc I’ll be amazed. Time to tax the shit out of Coca Cola, PepsiCo, nestle etc
I heard, you guys like low taxes !!!
Good.
EU has a lot of new low taxes for you.
Like there’s no other way to arrange anything apart from taxing something, it seems. Now a new tax for healthy hearts.
🤦🏻
What’s life without unhealthy foods? Just teach people to eat healthy and let us have our unhealthy foods as treats. The whole problem with number of overweight people is not fixed by making poor people’s access to treats more difficult, and if life isn’t hard enough. Just another case where education is “too expensive” so politicians want to restrict access instead.
How about they lower tax on healthy food instead
Yes,- put a price on being fat. I think most western countries should have a fat tax
Or just make healthy food more affordable? But I’m being silly, this isn’t about actually helping people. This is about getting as much money out of us as they possibly can.
More taxes? In this economy?
Make things more expensive please, thanks again eu
As a poor fucker, It’s great to hear that I’ll have to pay even more for food that I already barely afford. Thanks, EU!
Time to squeeze the Plebs some more, the EU Aristocrats need some more Money.
Yes, taxes are great for the prosperity of the economy. Omg
in 90s maybe, not now they are unpopular as even…
Good and ringfence the money raised for public health projects.