Sugary beverages like sodas and energy drinks are designed to be hyper-palatable, laden with extravagant amounts of sweeteners to stimulate pleasure centers in the brain.
You’re not going to win this argument, sugar intake is inwardly destructive, while alcohol is inward and outward. The victims of alcohol are not just the people that consume it, whether it be from drinking and driving, spousal abuse, watching someone you love deteriorating their brain and liver, etc.
In the US 31% of car fatalities are linked with alcohol consumption. I don’t think you can argue that it’s negligible.
I doubt that poor infrastructure is causing more than that, and as far as I know there is no magic solution to solve human error (while there is, for drunk driving: don’t drink).
Also this conversation was about comparing it to sugar, and I will take a bet and say that sugar causes car accidents, violence and rape much less often than alcohol.
Sugar kills more and more people are certified land whales.
You’re not going to win this argument, sugar intake is inwardly destructive, while alcohol is inward and outward. The victims of alcohol are not just the people that consume it, whether it be from drinking and driving, spousal abuse, watching someone you love deteriorating their brain and liver, etc.
This is not apples to apples at all.
Deff not apples to apples…
But which one is a public health emergency and which one has bigger lobby?
Alcohol is definitely a big public health issue. But if you think that getting rid of it is an option, we tried that once and it didn’t go too well.
We ain’t getting rid of sugar either… I am positing that we should be treating sugar like alcohol.
Policy and socially.
And car accidents are still more dangerous, and that’s ignoring the non-deadly dangers of alcohol.
Most car accidents are result of poor infrastructure and human error… Not drunk drivers.
In the US 31% of car fatalities are linked with alcohol consumption. I don’t think you can argue that it’s negligible.
I doubt that poor infrastructure is causing more than that, and as far as I know there is no magic solution to solve human error (while there is, for drunk driving: don’t drink).
Also this conversation was about comparing it to sugar, and I will take a bet and say that sugar causes car accidents, violence and rape much less often than alcohol.