Posted on 05/20/2016 9:23:22 AM PDT by PROCON
First lady Michelle Obama will unveil Friday the country's first update to nutrition labels in more than two decades — a move that helps cement her campaign to encourage Americans to eat healthier.
The new Nutrition Facts labels, which will take effect in two years and appear on billions of food packages, for the first time require food companies to list how much sugar they add to their products and suggest a limit for how much added sugar people should consume — two changes vehemently opposed by many food companies.
The impact of the rule is difficult to overstate — labels on products from candy bars and sodas to crackers and cereal, at every point of sale across America, must be overhauled at an estimated cost of $2 billion. And those labels will remind Americans every time they open a package of how much added sugar they are consuming. “This is going to make a real difference in providing families across the country the information they need to make healthy choices,” Obama said in a statement.
The administration’s determination to stand its ground on added sugar labeling amid fierce opposition from business groups is a sign the first lady intends to bolster her already substantive food policy legacy in her final months in the East Wing. While the media has often painted Obama’s Let’s Move! campaign as soft and uncontroversial, the first lady has brought enormous pressure to bear on groups like the processed food industry and notched a series of wins related to what Americans eat.
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There’s a rule that will be rescinded.
Well, as our nation’s highest elected official, I think she can pass any laws she wants. So let it be written. So let it be done.
Now there is some brown sugar even Mick Jagger would pass up on..........
There is no such thing as Nanny State.
Nannies do not imprison you and fine you into financial ruin.
It is a Police State.
Who sponsored this legislation?
What were the vote tallies in the House and Senate?
Is there a difference between inherent sugar and added sugar in a product?
Isn’t sugar - sugar?
(This is going to cost multi-millions for food companies to run testing and change their labels)
Bathroom expression of mental illness and mandates to the food police, nice legacies. Keep it up Chewbacca and Pajama Boy.
What about mandatory disclosure of aspartame? How about letting us know whether our food is genetically modified or not? It would be nice to know I’m eating meat from cows that are grass-fed.
I wonder why after all this time Michelle has no interest in that. But then again I really don’t.
Does this racist grifter (aka: Worst Lady) have a nutrition degree? What a complete loser.
Trump will dump this new labeling rule and about a million other liberal agenda-driven regulations the Obama administration has invented to prevent the American people from living free from the reins of an oppressive big government.
Can this executive order be reversed by a new president?
If it’s not a law why do the food companies have to obey it?
Color me confused.
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Trump better undue it
Notice the word "Rule", not "Law".
To people who eat "whole foods", "clean foods" or "pure foods", no. Added anything messes up the natural balance in pure foods.
If something isn't sweet enough in its natural state, it's better to add granulated cane sugar (or a non-chemical, non-processed alternative) on your own.
This seems to answer my question.
“The final rule, published today by the Food and Drug Administration, has been in the works for more than a decade, but the East Wing has been instrumental in shaping the policy and moving the process forward. The regulation stems from a law Congress passed in 1990 giving FDA the authority to mandate nutrition labels on food packages.”
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Amazing how the will of an unelected wife of the American Emperor now becomes law by bureaucratic fiat.
Sorry folks, but the American experiment in limited government and ordered liberty springing up from civil society is OVER - and you lost.
Who gave her the power to do this?
We should look at the bright side of this inane crapola — at least we will know exactly which foods will be the tastiest!!!!!
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