Here at The College Fix, we’ve been faithfully documenting the left’s relentless war on soft drinks.
This week, an NYU professor compared drinking large soft drinks to drunk driving:
In an op-ed in the New York Daily News on Friday, Marion Nestle, a professor of nutrition at NYU, has attempted to turn the debate about Bloomberg’s sugary-drink ban on its head. The supporters of the ban, she claims, are the true champions of liberty. Her piece is entitled “Liberty from big soda.”
She writes, “So-called ‘nanny-state’ measures — like bans on driving while drunk, smoking in public places and, now, selling absurdly large sugary drinks — help to level the playing field. Such measures are about giving everyone an equal opportunity to live a safer and healthier life.”
Sounds like typical attitudes of the academic left. Government control? Check. Abdication of personal responsibility? Check.
Too bad for professor Nestle because today a New York court struck down Mayor Bloomberg’s large soda ban, ruling it unconstitutional.
Go celebrate with a 32 oz. soda, America! Your liberty to drink will live on for another day.
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