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London Nanny-Staters Want To Ban Coke and McDonald’s From the Olympics

Ah yes, the elite of London know so much more about what you should eat and how you should live your life. How long before NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg signs on to something like this? Oh, that’s right — he already did.

“London won the right to host the 2012 Games with the promise to deliver a legacy of more active, healthier children across the world,” the Green Party’s Jenny Jones, who proposed the motion, told the assembly. ”Yet the same International Olympic Committee that awarded the games to London persists in maintaining sponsorship deals with the purveyors of high calorie junk that contributes to the threat of an obesity epidemic.”

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