SF Politics SF City Attorney Sues Ten ‘Ultraprocessed Food’ Companies, Claiming Their Products Area Causing Widespread Disease The Nanny State is coming after the Coca-Cola Company and other ‘Big Food’ brands right here in SF, as City Attorney David Chiu has sued the manufacturers of ultraprocessed foods, saying they’re behind spikes in cancer and diabetes.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ahead of Easter, a California Lawmaker Wants to Ban Peeps, Skittles (or a Certain Chemical Dye In Them) Everyone's favorite nanny state is back at it making international headlines, as there's a bill before the California legislature that would ban products containing Red No. 3, a.k.a erythrosine, which is used in making everything from marshmallow Peeps to cocktail cherries.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Meanwhile, In Berkeley... City Council Passes Ordinance Requiring Healthy Snacks In Grocery Checkout Lanes There may be a pandemic, a looming election nightmare like no other, a worsening climate crisis that made air in the Bay Area unhealthy for weeks on end, and seething tensions over violence by police against Black people, but over at the Berkeley City Council it's business as usual some weeks.
SF News City May Cut The Number Of Businesses Allowed To Sell Tobacco Products In an effort that began six years ago and came up for debate again today in the Board of Supes' Neighborhood Services and Safety Committee, the City may limit the number of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Big Soda Spending Big Bucks To Defeat Soda Tax Measure, And They've Got Bill Clinton On Their Side You may have already seen the above TV spot which just launched last week from the No on E campaign. It's funded by the deep pockets of the American beverage industry
SF News San Francisco Supervisors Vote To Ban E-Cigarettes San Francisco's Board of Supervisors voted unanimously yesterday to impose the city's strict no-smoking laws on e-cigarettes and vaporizers. In other words, you and that e-cig
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Big Soda Responds To San Francisco's Proposed Soda Tax As San Francisco braces itself for the possibility of spending a quarter extra just for the privilege of enjoying an ice cold can of bubbly corn syrup, the lobbyists from Big Soda would
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Here Comes San Francisco's Soda Tax In nanny state news: Supervisor Scott Wiener plans to introduce legislation this week that would add a 24-cent tax on every can of soda sold in the city of San Francisco. Wiener&
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Less Booze, More Produce Coming To A Corner Store Near You After a brief test run in the Bayview and the Tenderloin, Richmond District nutritionist Supervisor Eric Mar is now expanding his plan to put produce aisles in liquor stores citywide. The new legislation,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Returning The Favor, S.F. City Attorney Files Suit Against Monster Energy Drink Just one week after the makers of Monster Beverage sued San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera, the D.A. has struck back. Today, Herrera filed the People of the State of California v.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Monster Energy Drink Is Suing S.F. for Being Totally Lame Monster Beverage, the makers of the caffeine-laden energy drink that someone, somewhere, still buys, are suing San Francisco city attorney Dennis Herrera for hounding them in his bid to address safety issues
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Francisco Up In Arms Over Monster Energy Drinks The City Attorney office's most pressing issue this week is Monster Energy drinks. Of course. (If Dennis Herrera gets bored, SFist would gladly hand him a list of SF ordinance violators
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Eric Mar's Next Crusade: Less Beer, More Produce At Your Corner Store Having famously saved an entire generation of San Francisco children from making potentially unhealthy lifestyle choices, Richmond District Supervisor Eric Mar has a new mission that will rescue San Franciscans from themselves: Getting
SF News An Argument For Plastic Bags Starting October 1, the city of San Francisco will not only ban plastic bags, but they will also charge you ten cents per paper bag. The money accrued will go back to the
SF News Rocklin Resident Wants To Ban Outdoor Smoking, Even In Your Own Backyard NIMBYs inch closer toward literalism after Rocklin resident James Baker asked the City Council to ban outdoor smoking altogether, even for residents who wish to puff relaxing, cancer-causing cigarettes on their own
SF News Borderlands Owner Expresses Bitterness Over "Nanny State" Smoking Laws The owner of Borderlands Cafe and Borderland Books in the Mission is apparently not pleased about San Francisco's smoking laws. Here's what he has to say in the above
