Should Drinks Like Gatorade Sport the Junk Food Label – and get banned?
Are you so sick of this or what? It’s beyond labels – politicos in Washington want to ban sports drinks from school! They are essential for athletes! Leave our children alone! Let their parents decide what they can or can’t drink! Please!! THE NANNY STATE RULES! A billion-dollar battle over selling sports drinks and “enhanced” water in public schools has spilled into Congress and threatens to derail a major attempt to cut back the sale of junk food from school vending machines and snack bars. If they really, really want to involve themselves in our lives, and they want to try to save our children from impending disaster, then find a way to get the drugs and the alcohol out of our schools! Find a way to eradicate those addictions and you might find some respect and support. But if the politicians don’t have the guts to send in drug-sniffing dogs and stop the drug dealing on high school campuses, then they ought to have the decency to allow a soccer player, a football player or a cross c