A rally is being held Monday against Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s proposed ban on super-sized sugary drinks.
About 1,000 protesters chanting “Drink Free Or Die” are taking part in the “Million Big Gulp March” in City Hall Park, which kicked off Monday afternoon.
Business owners, local politicians and others against the proposed ban are all expected to take part, according to NYC Liberty HQ spokesman Zach Huff.
“The ‘Million Big Gulp March’ is about more than just the size of drinks, it is our long-overdue response to a governing ideology that thinks it can tell us what fat we can cook with, how much popcorn we can buy, whether we can use table salt or even how much water we can bathe with and use in each flush,” Huff said in a statement. “It’s astonishing to see a pro-choice mayor be so anti-choice when it comes to trivial personal decisions.”
Bloomberg is not backing down when it comes to his crusade against sugary drinks.
“If you want to kill yourself, I guess you have a right to do it,” Bloomberg said Monday.
“We’ve got to do something about this and they can have a march and make a joke out of it but there’s a story in the Post today where the hospitals are having to increase the size of their gurneys and strengthen them because some of the patients are so heavy,” Bloomberg added. “This is going to be worse than smoking ever was.”
Bloomberg noted smoked deaths are going down while obesity-related fatalities are skyrocketing.
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