Pick & Choose Labeling

Pick & Choose Labeling

 Like the song says, “you can’t have one without the other”. Since talks between food makers, the White House, and the FDA haven’t progressed on how to proceed with food package nutrition labeling, in fact they’ve completely stalled, the food industry decided to move forward on nutritional labeling of their products on their own.  Michelle Obama has been the initiator of such labeling in her campaign against obesity, wanting the food industry to make package front labels listing nutrients that may be considered unhealthy to some consumers; salt, fat, corn sugar, and caloric content being high on her list. Food makers countered with labeling that includes both beneficial nutrients and nutrients consumers might want to consider avoiding. This has left Mrs. Obama more than a little unhappy; claiming that to make front package food labels include negative and positive nutritional information would be too confusing for the consumer. Please, Mrs. Obama, give the American consumer a little more credit than that. Let the consumer have all the info. Of course there will have to be a committee formed to decide how to get people to read the nutritional info on labels! 

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