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Food Justice As Crime Prevention, Avi Brisman Jan 2021

Food Justice As Crime Prevention, Avi Brisman

Journal of Food Law & Policy

In December 2008, Governor David Paterson (D-NY) proposed an 18 percent tax on nondiet sodas and fruit drinks containing less than 70 percent natural fruit juice. While the tax was part of a broader budget proposal designed to address New York State's fiscal crisis - a plan that that included new taxes and tax hikes on 137 items and services' - state officials promoted the "obesity tax," as the soft drink levy came to be called, as a public health measure.


Realizing The Right To Food: Progress, Limitations And Emerging Alternative Policy And Legal Models, Nadia Lambek Jun 2015

Realizing The Right To Food: Progress, Limitations And Emerging Alternative Policy And Legal Models, Nadia Lambek

Food Systems Summit 2015

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