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LaSalleAve · Oct 1, 2009

gumborue said: ↑

there are many many reasons. obviously, the big one is personal responsibility. the next big one is not having SAHM. if you make youre food you will be eating much better food.

The FDA doesnt help much either. under FDR they had a regulation saying something to the effect of --"for foods that everyone knows, such as bread, milk, and cheese, when consumers buy these foods, they should get what they expect. if a food resembles a common food but is different from the standard, that food must be labeled as 'imitation.'""

that was great because thats when processed foods started, crisco and hfcs and using antibiotics and hormones in livestock.

but then under Nixon it was changed so that "imitation" foods did not have to be labeled as such if they are "nutritionally equivalent". so then the makers of processed foods were free to process the hell out of food to make it less perishable then add back "nutrients" .

SunnyD isnt "imitation orange juice". it is "orange fruit drink". And for many such products, "sugar" isnt the first or second or third ingredient listed even though it in essence is the main ingredient, because three or four different sweeteners will be used so that no one of them are the most prevalent ingredient (hfcs, evaporated cane juice, sugar, etc).

the weird thing is that its been done for so long now that it can be hard to find the traditional standard unadultered foods. like bread, cheese, chocolate, ice cream, fruit juice, yogurt, etc.
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I think this could be a point in the whole healthcare argument. If they want to talk about preventative methods, then make the FDA crack down on unhealthy foods.