FDA to propose new food labels

Instead of telling me what what my line of reasoning is . ... and posting about every thing you can think of to conflate this with other things, such as lung cancer from cigarettes or salmonella poisoning from bad meat. ... things that this has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH. ... why not stick to what I actually HAVE said?

I can type this 1,000 more times. This has nothing to do with ANY harm that anyone has caused anyone else. It has nothing to do with any false labeling. Nothing to do with any kind of consumer fraud.

It is the FDA putting product design and labeling constraints on products that have never harmed anyone, have never lied to anyone about their products, never made a misleading or false claim.

This is just arbitrary bungling -- tat a cost. Has the original food label really done anything to solve any "public health concerns," or has it actually, as many suggest, really misinformed people about what is important in their food and created an even greater aggregate health problem?

We shouldn't have to debate that, because people should have learned by now that relying on some authority to try to design the world creates bigger messes.

Yelling, "public health crisis," doesn't address the simple fact that intentions are NOT results.

 

Ha.

1) The new regulations have absolutely nothing to do with labels such as lowfat, gluten free, etc.

2) The FDA ALREADY created those nutritional claims (and what you have to do to put those things on the label) that you are complaining about!

The FDA is fucking up food labeling exactly the way you suggested. My original point. The same points people like Michael Pollan, Marion Nestle (I am not appealing to authority; read what they have to say and judge it on its merits) have made over and over again, even as your public health crisis has gotten WORSE with every random and arbitrary FDA rule.

 

That makes no sense to me.

Don't ever buy a car, unless are a car expert or you can build one from scratch, too?

How harmful are sugar substitutes, by the way? Can you quantify it and spell out any conclusive cause and effect relationships?

If you are looking for the FDA to be your expert, by the way. ... bad choice. What happened to the proposed ban (they are the authority) of saccharin under the Delaney Clause?

 

The point was that I may personally never put any saccharin in my body (I don't). ... Not because anyone has (or can) quantify something as imprecise as "how harmful" it is for me. Including the FDA, which recommended banning it, even though Congress overruled your authority that you want to cede your decision-making to. . ...so is STILL on the market. I guess noted earlier authority Theodore Roosevelt had actually been wrong when told the head of the USDA that "Anybody who says saccharin is injurious to health is an idiot."

At the end of the day, saccharin is a relatively new synthetic substance that NOBODY has a perfect handle on. And all the false authority and selective information about it in the world doesn't change that. We don't know what unknown effects there are to eating it. If you eat it, buyer beware.

Personally?

I'm not a mindless slug hoping for a bureaucratic authority to pretend it is making the world safe for me -- so I feel good about my decisions based on their authority.

I make my own decisions based on what is important to me. I want no part of saccharin, for example. For *me* (and anyone can disagree if they choose), common sense tells me that eating whole, natural foods is probably way smarter. If I choose to eat processed and synthetic products, I suspect am taking chances that I don't fully appreciate.

That is neither here nor there, though. Disagree if you want. If you choose to eat saccarhin, for example, that is *your* choice. But the FDA can't dictate anything about how it is labeled that makes it anything but a roll of the dice for you.

The products the FDA randomly targets, and what random edicts it comes up with, don't magically make the world safe for everyone. It is just costly. ... and in fact, I'd still argue they have created more harm than good in actual effect.Telling us saturated fats, no wait, trans fats, no wait, carbs, no wait, actually its the sugars, are the key to eating.

Either way, make your own decisions about what to eat based on whatever factors YOU feel are important.

It isn't a matter of who you choose over me to nanny you. *I* am not the one who wants to arbitrarily regulate everything for you.