> especially if you’re not in a place with strong regulations like the EU.
Why is this? America is a first world country... but why we don't have strong regulations?
Why is this? America is a first world country... but why we don't have strong regulations?
A lot of industrial "food" was started here... Often, the discoveries of good vs. bad in terms of new "food" can take 3-5 generations for the issues to show up in people. For example, Omega 6 fatty acids are 25-40% of fats in American bodies today vs 1900, where it was closer to 2-3%. Likely a factor in a lot of endemic issues with hormone production today. That doesn't account for modern wheat being a multiplier in terms of histamine response (often confused with glucose intolerance).
I'm not strictly anti-gmo, or against processing food... but it's a matter of extent, and what one mixes in to what is natural and what is so refined it no longer resembles real foot. Even then, hyper-palatability is another issue. There's also the half century push for reducing dietary cholesterol and saturated fats that has become ingrained in culture..
Or to put it another way, look at the list of F500 companies, esp. F100, and notice how many of them are in fields like healthcare, foods, and oil & gas (plastics being a way to utilize leftovers from petroleum refinement).
Lots of money means marketing & propaganda campaigns to sway public opinion, and a swayed public opinion leads to voting in politicians friendly to corporate views.
Friendly politicos then are able to sway regulations in favor of corporations. From there you get Regulatory Capture, where the regulators are often handpicked by the industry they're ostensibly supposed to regulate.
Perhaps we should get with the times and accept that Goodhart’s Law applies to the measures of capitalism. A consumer can absolutely be poisoned or cheated by a product satisfying all commonly accepted quality criteria. As soon as those criteria are agreed upon by the market, they become targets to manipulate.