I can't tell you how pleased I am that you wrote this article Michelle. I have personally lived a very healthy lifestyle for a very long time now (especially with my food choices), trying very hard, as much as possible, to eat foods that don't even require a label. Despite that, anytime we buy any type of packaged foods (even ones that aren't "ultra processed"), it's hard to know what is actually in them. It's never good when the list of ingredients is made up of mostly, or even just some chemical names, but I'm assuming that most people believed that they were at least "safe" for their consumption. I'm hoping that this great article of yours, and your call to action, will be disseminated throughout the general population so that more and more people will wake up to the corruption within our food security system and start taking steps to say NO MORE! Thanks for this.
We as consumers can also make a direct impact by limiting or not buying highly processed or packaged foods which contain all the additives. I read a book awhile ago about additives in food – for addicting people/increasing sales, never about nutrition or health. Big 3 are fat, sugar, salt and that’s not even getting into the fake flavorings, scents and looks.
You are absolutely right. We each must take responsibility for our health going forward. Hopefully we'll finally have a HHS which will support those efforts!
I can answer that. I'm a believer of "small government". Government can publish guidelines, that's a good thing. But government tends to mess everything up, either due to corruption or incompetence. So it's best to put information out there and let people make the choices, let the free market drive things.
I can't tell you how pleased I am that you wrote this article Michelle. I have personally lived a very healthy lifestyle for a very long time now (especially with my food choices), trying very hard, as much as possible, to eat foods that don't even require a label. Despite that, anytime we buy any type of packaged foods (even ones that aren't "ultra processed"), it's hard to know what is actually in them. It's never good when the list of ingredients is made up of mostly, or even just some chemical names, but I'm assuming that most people believed that they were at least "safe" for their consumption. I'm hoping that this great article of yours, and your call to action, will be disseminated throughout the general population so that more and more people will wake up to the corruption within our food security system and start taking steps to say NO MORE! Thanks for this.
Let's hope that more and more people will wake up AND take action.
We as consumers can also make a direct impact by limiting or not buying highly processed or packaged foods which contain all the additives. I read a book awhile ago about additives in food – for addicting people/increasing sales, never about nutrition or health. Big 3 are fat, sugar, salt and that’s not even getting into the fake flavorings, scents and looks.
You are absolutely right. We each must take responsibility for our health going forward. Hopefully we'll finally have a HHS which will support those efforts!
"The responsibility for ensuring the safety of the American food supply rests heavily on the shoulders of the FDA commissioners."
Nice idea, but obviously not working, and probably never will.
In the end, it's caveat emptor.
Why do you believe it's not working and never will?
I can answer that. I'm a believer of "small government". Government can publish guidelines, that's a good thing. But government tends to mess everything up, either due to corruption or incompetence. So it's best to put information out there and let people make the choices, let the free market drive things.
More government = less freedom