Public
officials in Denmark may be getting the message but not, apparently, Los
Angeles.
In
Denmark, lawmakers have repealed
a tax on foods high in saturated fat while bureaucrats cancelled plans for a
tax on sugar. Both levies were aimed at curbing obesity. “Now we have to try to
improve public health by other means,” said Mette Gjerskov, the Danish minister
of food and agriculture.
Meanwhile,
in Los Angeles, the City Council joined San Francisco and a few other U.S.
cities in endorsing "Meatless Mondays." A resolution, adopted unanimously, urges city residents to
pledge to forgo meat on the first day of each week. The move followed earlier
city council steps to crack down on trans fats fast-food restaurants.
HOTH
applauds the good sense of the Danes, at least on this issue, and suggests
someone send the Los Angeles council some good pork barbeque.
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