{"id":56,"date":"2016-05-02T16:13:49","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T16:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.duke.edu\/policy360\/?p=56"},"modified":"2021-06-17T21:18:24","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T21:18:24","slug":"ep-13-future-of-food-policy-taxing-soda-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/policy360.org\/2016\/05\/02\/ep-13-future-of-food-policy-taxing-soda-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Ep. 13: Future of Food Policy: Taxing Soda Works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mexico experimented recently with a 10% tax on sugary beverages. And it worked. A year after the tax was implemented there was a 12% decline in soda purchases.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/261562618&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\"><a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Sanford School @ Duke\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/sanford-school-duke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sanford School @ Duke<\/a> \u00b7 <a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Future of Food Policy: Taxing Soda Works\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/sanford-school-duke\/the-future-of-food-policy-taxing-soda-works\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Future of Food Policy: Taxing Soda Works<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Barry Popkin is the director of the Nutrition Transition Research program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He says the Mexico experiment is important, and other countries will follow suit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We expect as the taxes get larger, and the effects are shown to be significant that countries will realize, they both need revenue, they need money for public health &#8230; the benefits are enormous in getting people conscious of the cost of sugary beverages,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p>This conversation is part of a series called The Future of Food Policy. The conversations were conducted at Duke University as a part of the development of a new initiative, the World Food Policy Center.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>[Image: vintage Blue\/Pixabay]<\/li>\n<li>Music: Impromptu in Blue by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/2.0\/\">Creative Commons Attribution license<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Artist:\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/www.incompetech.com\/\" href=\"https:\/\/exit.sc\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.incompetech.com%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">www.incompetech.com\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/policy360.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/05\/Ep-13-Barry-Popkin-2-Master.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the transcript<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mexico experimented recently with a 10% tax on sugary beverages. And it worked. A year after the tax was implemented there was a 12% decline&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/policy360.org\/2016\/05\/02\/ep-13-future-of-food-policy-taxing-soda-works\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ep. 13: Future of Food Policy: Taxing Soda Works<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_meta":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17,59],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ep. 13: Future of Food Policy: Taxing Soda Works - Policy360<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/policy360.org\/2016\/05\/02\/ep-13-future-of-food-policy-taxing-soda-works\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ep. 13: Future of Food Policy: Taxing Soda Works - Policy360\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mexico experimented recently with a 10% tax on sugary beverages. 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