Quote Originally Posted by Gandalf_The_Grey
...they already do have a stake in food standards, as they should. We have institutions like the FDA for a reason (hate the fuckers, but a necessary evil). Food standards can be set up for large-scale, commercial food chains. Initiatives such as trans-fat bans, mandatory nutritional facts, and public education all come in to play.
Okay, fine. Educate the public that trans fat is bad for you. That's what the FDA is for. And to keep newly-developed additives from hitting the market before it is determined whether they are harmful.
But once it's approved, and unless they are actually going to yank it from the market (which won't happen because a class action suit against the FDA with every Amercian as a plaintiff on the subject of, say, exposure to trans fats, would be devastating), I don't want to hear whether I am allowed to eat it. Fuck, remember Olestra? Instant taco shits. I never touched the stuff myself and am shocked it got approved as an additive- how did THAT one slip by, lol?
But back to the original point, there's a big difference between saying that xxxx chemical is unsafe and therefore not legal to sell, and mandating that Americans only are allowed to eat fast food xxxx times per month, and never feed it to their fucking kids.
Spend that money on the school science departments, where it matters, because an educated population is a healthy population... we can take care of our damn selves, if we're given the correct tools. Spend a day reading the grow section of any major cannabis forum and you'll see why kids are unhealthy- half of them know jack squat about biology and physiology, and can't be bothered to learn.