They are grown up and are just now learning to read the package? Idiots. Most of us caught on to that during grade school. Plus anyone who watched the fictional “Rich Man Poor Man” during the 70s learned about how to get rich by manufacturing and selling fake ice cream. This all didn’t just now happen.
This isn’t just about a creamy frozen delight; it’s just further exposing the same pattern we see across appliances, food, consumer goods, and even fast food. Quality shrinks silently, marketing stays glossy, and the customer pays more for less.
It's the Establishment way, even pre-packaged as convenient, boiler plate talking points from trusty experts.
"the economics reward dilution"
As for the myriad of products -- misc. kitchen gadgets, for example,
Labels and packaging are typically plastered with eco buzz phrases, approval seals, save-the-planet emblems and so forth.
Yet
1. Made in China (how about that carbon footprint in shipping? Or the extreme pollution over there that's out of sight?)
2. Garbage quality, so the consumer has to keep re-buying the same product, which is typically of lower quality every time. (So how about the waste of manufacturing, packaging, shipping, and buying 10, 20 items instead of 1? How about that carbon footprint of the excess gas-guzzling, either by the customer's vehicle for all the shopping and re-shopping, or the UPS delivery trucks?)
Maybe it's just me, but it sure seems that the true-believer save-the-planet eco-warriors tend to be the same folks who never met a government 'solution' or no-show 'job' that they didn't like.
Government -- the very headquarters of waste, corruption, fraud, inefficiency, destruction and death.
"the economics reward dilution"
/rant