Whats the point of all the nutritional labelling guff on packaged foodstuffs?
Nutritional labeling on foods has had a HUGE effect on the choices people make in the supermarket! Maybe you don’t care what’s in your food, but millions of Americans read those labels. Walk around your local market and watch! Food producers today are beginning to use nutritional information on the front panel! You’ll see ‘No Trans Fats’ or ‘Only 5 g of Fat’ right on the front so you won’t miss it. They wouldn’t do this if their market research wasn’t telling them that people care about this stuff. In Europe, genetically modified foods are required to be labeled as such, and most people just won’t buy them. There are consumer groups in the US trying to get our govt. to require GM foods to be labeled. Why do you think the govt. is resisting that move? Between 1960 and 1990 we went from a country of 85% smokers to 7-8%. We did this entirely through -education-. We can educate Americans about healthy diets too!
