Posted on 05/09/2015 2:23:28 AM PDT by SMGFan
According to candy maker Mars, sugar labeling on people’s favorite food snacks like M&M’s is necessary since people need to be told that candy is not a diet. While that seems like an obvious statement to make, Mars is very serious about the issue and there is also good reason to have sugar labeling on all foods, not just candy.
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But it is soul food.
The dumbing down of America.
Derpmerica!
Considering how half of the US vote, there should also be reminders to breathe and blink on those packages,
I wonder how my mom knew all this sixty years ago?
It’s not enough that it says “sugar” as the first ingredient on the package? Next they’ll be putting photos of obese people on the packaging to remind people what happens if you eat a billion m&ms.
Neither is high fructose corn syrup. Wish they’d all go back to plain old sugar. We need less chemicals.
“Mars is very serious about the issue and there is also good reason to have sugar labeling on all foods, not just candy.”
The stupidest city in America will eventually ban sugar. Or
at least try to. The stupidest city? Well New York of course.
Next thing you know, toothpaste will have to come with a disclaimer that it will not work to reinsert teeth that have fallen out....
—— sugar labeling on all foods, not just candy.——
the fallacy is that to know the contents one must read. the assumption is that people can and will read the package
if one wants to obscure the sugar content, write the ingredients in cursive font
enable federal regulation by proactively complying... nice see-through way for a HUGE corporation smash the competition. Cronyist.
Bingo!
She was educated.
But what about labeling that reminds us not to eat the package?
“Neither is high fructose corn syrup. Wish they’d all go back to plain old sugar. We need less chemicals.”
That’s what I was thinking - do they even use sugar in M&Ms?
In last weekends Wall St Journal there was an interesting article about advertising that relates back to this.
It was in the May 2nd 2015 issue Page A13 I am not sure about the legalities of posting from there, so, you’ll have to go to the public library and get a back issue.
Anyway the article was about Pepsi changing from Aspartame to another sweetener. They aren’t saying Aspartame is dangerous, just vaguely hinting at it. Chipolte is doing the same thing with GMOs, no proof they are dangerous, but, to quote
“They say these ingredients are safe,” Chipotle founder Steve Ells told CNN “but I think we all know we’d rather have food that doesn’t contain them.” “
Just another advertising ploy.
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