I don’t think government should regulate it either.
But I think it is classic corporate-think to load up bread with as much sugar as it takes to think you’ll maximize your sales. Yeah, if they had signs up stating that their bread is 10% pure sugar some people would move on to the next fast-food provider.
It is the same thing as selling a product that looks good for the price but falls apart soon after sale. (That’s not unique to American business, of course.)
But if you were, for example, a small sandwich shop maker who took pride in your product, you wouldn’t load your bread up with sugar to start with. Or maybe you would offer a “sweet bread” option for those who want it.
Of course. It’s no surprise that business wants to maximize sales and profits. For “fast-food”, that means cheap ingredients and lots of syrup and sugar and some fillers. For cosmetics it generally means cheap and often harsh cold-mix raw materials just add color and fragrance and churn it out as fast as you can. Even construction these days, a lot of it is cookie cutter a developer buys 10,000 acres and builds 40,000 homes that look exactly alike. Some of it makes sense if the quality is there, to automate construction using pre-fab tilt up walls and standard window sizes etc. For personal products and food consumption, there are plenty of options.
Personally, in my business, we take pride and consider everything we do from the first to the last for the best possible end result. It’s much more expensive and costs the consumer more as a result. But then again, I won’t win competing with the cheapest competitor out there. It’s not what I want to do, nor what I am equipped to do.
Though I will say, sugar aside, for food it is in large part a question of caloric intake vs calories burned. Though personally I subscribe to the Atkins/Keto system - limit carbs and sugars and higher in protein. Keto suggests higher fat while Atkins promotes higher protein.
I personally do not approve of the higher fat theory. Both seem to work well if you want to lose weight... but there is more to it than just pounds there is the whole holistic system to consider - heart, kidneys, lungs etc. Just a side-note. Though I do believe eat a salad about an hour before a meal. I used to eat the French way, salad after a meal. Which probably isn’t bad per se. But the salad first seems good. I was never obese, but in the decades since college I’ve added too many pounds, and lost about half of them fairly quickly just switching away from carbs and sugar.