City of Cambridge, Massachusetts looking to ban soda pop and other "sugary beverages" from being sold in restaurants!

Aspartame is some evil shit. I cannot begin to describe how evil it is..

That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to refer the matter of a ban on soda and sugar-sweetened beverages in restaurants to the Cambridge Public Health Department for a recommendation.

[link to www2.cambridgema.gov]

WELL....NOBODY FOUGHT FOR SMOKERS WHEN THE WACKOS WERE TAXING THE SHIT OUT OF SMOKES AND FORCING PEOPLE INTO THE STREETS IN THE DEAD OF WINTER AND FORBID SMOKING IN BARS. NOW YOU FAT ASS FUCKERS ARE ABOUT TO GET YOUR ASSES HANDED TO YOU. AND YOU KNOW WHAT? I DON'T GIVE A RAT'S ASS BECAUSE I DON'T DRINK SODA POP. I HOPE THEY TAX THE SHIT OUT OF SODA POP AND START THROWING PEOPLE IN JAIL WHO DRINK SODA POP IN PUBLIC. NEXT I HOPE THEY OUTLAW POP CORN...AND YOU KNOW WHY? YOU GUESSED IT. I DON'T LIKE POP CORN. FUCK YOU ALL!!!

Actually, Cambridge MA is also a place filled with mom and pop stores and resturaunts. Some of them have lasted for generations. Cambridgians really don't go for those factory places you see all over America that serve greasy dead foods under yellow lights. (I know--I've toured the country often with bands in a van.) There are no real vegetables in those places, the management is mean and stupid, the workers mostly fat smokers and miserable and they serve Big Gulps. What a relief it is to get back to Cambridge and real and tasty food. Served by real people working for small companies, many family owned. I worked for the Swiss Alps resturaunt in the 70s. We served cruet a la flamange. ha ha.

I call people stupid fucks who 1. don't know what Cambridge is really like and 2. use stereotypes to color a whole place. 3. I call stupid fucks people who are stupid fucks. That's allowed in a place like Cambridge, so watch yourself.

Also, I'm sure you can get whatever kind of sugar drinks you want in Cambridge. Something like Indian or VietNamese Ice Tea is still the same. Nobody will stop that. That's just stereotyping. No one will go out of business because of a lack of big business (Store 24 etc) Big Gulps. Hospitals and schools in Cambridge banned that garbage years ago for health reasons. It's The Same As banning heroin.
People said the sane stupid stuff when the rock clubs banned smoking inside. Now there is sidewalk society and you can breathe in the clubs and not go home stinking.

I agree. People in Cambridge that I know all hate aspartame and the evil bastard who got it into our diets. You know that guy. Liberal Cambridge is anti artificial sweeteners. I go there to buy stevia and honey for cheap $. This debate is not over in Cambridge because there is no more anti big corp aspartame poison place in the country. There is more freedom to be an individual in Cambridge than almost any other place. You stupid stupid stereo-typers!

Well ... if they are banning sugary beverages from being sold in restaurants they better get on the stick and BAN ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES AND PACKAGES TOO!!

There are a LOT of calories in alcoholic beverages, plus of course people get drunk on alcohol, kill off brain cells, hurt their liver and btw also then act stupid!!

BAN BEER!!
BAN LIQUOR!!

and when they finish with that then they can start a holy war on Coffee too!!

oh no! Healthiness DOOOOOOOOOM!

Bread outlawed, masses starve, neo-liberals celebrate.
News at 11

All hail King Aspartame!

Bow down before Lord Saccharin!

Well that dude is a moron for equating smoking to drinking sodas.

Drinking a soda isn't going to give someone else cancer, so it's a fucking stupid comparison.

I know Harvard is one of the biggest Lib strongholds. How about MIT?

There are more small bakeries in Cambridge than most any other place I've been except Brooklyn. Any kind you want. Almost every block on Mass Av has a bakery where you can get Real bread like your grandmother baked. When and if the shit hits the fan from a solar flare (or whatever), they will be handing out bread for free in Cambridge because many of the bakeries use actual fire instead of electricity, and the people care about their customers as people, not just as revenue...like those corporate chains that don't care about anything but money. (The barbecue places do too, so you'll be able to get your pulled-pork & ribs) More IGNORANT stereotyping!

Well ... if they are banning sugary beverages from being sold in restaurants they better get on the stick and BAN ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES AND PACKAGES TOO!!

BAN BEER!!
BAN LIQUOR!!

and when they finish with that then they can start a holy war on Coffee too!!

SEE? THIS IS WHAT I MEAN. NOW HERE'S A COMPLETELY FUCKING CLUELESS LIBTARD MORAN WHO CAN'T EVEN UNDERSTAND MY MESSAGE. I'M NOT PONTIFICATING ON THE EVILS OR MERITS OF SMOKING OR SODA. I'M BITCHING ABOUT HOW ONCE THE NANNY STATE GETS CONTROL OVER ONE FACED OF OUR LIVES, IT EMBOLDENS THEM TO GO FOR MORE RESTRICTIONS.

BUT 3198332, YOU'RE TOO FUCKING STUPID TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THIS THREAD IS ALL ABOUT. GO THE FUCK BACK TO CAMBRIDGE IN YOUR FUCKING CAH AND LEAVE THE ADULTS ALONE.

If you want some aromatic coffee that will knock your socks off, come to Cambridge MA and sit in a sidewalk cafe. Then you can but as much coffee as you want, raw beans or ground, inside from a sexy girl with spiky hair. (oh no!!!spiky hair!!!) Also, if you want micro brewed beer from anywhere in the world, come to Cambridge MA. You might be able to watch a local band playing actual instruments at the same time, in AC, without cigarette smoke up your nose. You just better keep your parking meter filled with quarters...unless it's after 6 pm or the on the weekend.

Over Packaging is a sign of food shipped from Argentina by a big corp that goes bad in 2 days. Best to buy fresh grown from a farm a few miles out, like you do in Cambridge MA.

They will announce soon that white flour is a diabetic demon and will soon outlaw it

Hows that for dem bakeries?

Our school districts have already have already phased out most white flour from the school lunch system which actually I approve of, but I dont know how bakeries will cope having to make everything whole wheat if that day comes to them

They will announce soon that white flour is a diabetic demon and will soon outlaw it

Hows that for dem bakeries?

Our school districts have already have already phased out most white flour from the school lunch system which actually I approve of, but I dont know how bakeries will cope having to make everything whole wheat if that day comes to them

You'd better read this, then:
[link to www.gutsense.org]

Grain is your 'diabetic demon.' Most of that 'fiber' from whole grain is indigestible and causes more problems than it prevents. And in case you didn't know: whole wheat flour goes rancid very quickly unless you keep it the freezer, as do products made from it. Can you really imagine school lunchroom staff, so often drawn from the least educated classes, taking proper precautions for maintaining whole grain products safely, or even knowing the difference between fresh and rancid?

I know about that rancid part, I bought some whole grain flour, it went bad fast.

The guy I know that works and runs his district lunch room and orders the food, said all the food is fresh and daily. They dont even store the untouched baby carrots in the salad bar. They toss it all out and get a new shipment in.

OH THE IRONY!!! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!


It seems the USDA is issuing a loan guarantee to a Louisiana company that makes sweeteners for soda and other food products.



WASHINGTON, June 18, 2012 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that USDA has approved a loan guarantee of $25 million to Myriant Corporation to help construct a bio-based production facility in Lake Providence, La.

"This project will support the President's "all-of-the-above" energy strategy and create job opportunities for American workers," said Vilsack. "The facility will bring opportunity to an area of Louisiana that has been battered by hurricanes, and has lacked new development. It will also expand a market for farmers."

The facility will make succinic acid, which is used primarily as a sweetener within the food and beverage industry. Currently it is made from butane, using petrochemicals, but the new plant will convert grain sorghum, an actual food source and a sustainable resource source, into succinic acid and ammonium sulfate. It is expected to produce 15,000 tons per year of succinic acid and 18,000 tons per year of ammonium sulfate. [link to www.usda.gov]

You know darn well politicians invested in this company before they guaranteed that loan!

I know about that rancid part, I bought some whole grain flour, it went bad fast.

The guy I know that works and runs his district lunch room and orders the food, said all the food is fresh and daily. They dont even store the untouched baby carrots in the salad bar. They toss it all out and get a new shipment in.