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Germany plans sugar tax that includes sugar free drinks (brusselssignal.eu)

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[–] linsenchip@piefed.zip 69 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

The minister of finance clarified that the tax will not apply to sugar free drinks

https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/zuckersteuer-172.html

[–] Sir_Premiumhengst@lemmy.world 18 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

O lol that's fairly recent tho. Yesterday they were all saying: hurr durr the drinking of sweet tasting things should be curbed and I almost punched the narrator via TCP/IP

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I would definitely support it if somebody wants to tax stevia.

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 6 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

What's wrong with stevia?

[–] BrickEater@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Its fucking disgusting tasting.

[–] lukaro@lemmy.zip 13 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Nothing other than the aftertaste.

[–] mad_kamikaze_man@feddit.org 4 points 7 hours ago

Funny Thing ist the Aftertaste comes from the Processing that ist mandated by law and has been lobbied in by big sugar