/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>15655427

Its a long story OP, but the short version is that we have a habit here in America of establishing legislature that supposedly will benefit a specific group, or do a specific thing. But in practice and over time does precisely the opposite.

In the food production and distribution industry, there are a lot of >100yr old laws that were passed at the turn of the 20th c. or even during the 19th c. that were intended to help or protect small businesses and farmers, which over the past 100-150 years had the exact opposite effect, or were exploited in some way buy bigger smarter business.

Also the way that food, drug, and food&drug labeling laws work here have a large influence. The short version again, is that there are many laws and regulations to be followed, enough to drown out anyone without deep enough pockets from getting their product to market. These regulations are of course, supposed to keep us safe from companies with unscrupulous intentions. But again, in *practice* they keep out small entrepreneurs while providing a safe system for unscrupulous companies to get their Jollies...Err, I mean munees. They can slap "organic" or "natural" or "fresh" or w.e the fuck they want on the package, because the law says they HAVE to tell us whats in it. So every package has a million mile long list of whats ACTUALLY in it somewhere in the ingredients section, at a non-standardized area of the packaging, somewhere in microscopic print. Meanwhile on the FRONT of the container (standardized), in READABLE and aesthetic print, you get what is essentially just a diversion these days, but a description of what you would normally assume you are buying.

Not a coincidence imho, that the point in our recent history when processed foods were introduced to our food environment in a major way is the same point of time when cancer diagnosis became prevalent in a major way in the US.

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