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Comments that don't make sense also get ignored. Edit: But seriously, why does the government need to regulate something the market will do automatically?

• ksaj 7y ago
  That's the lobby part of my comment. The only reason I can think the federal govt would be at all interested in tricking people into accepting fewer cherries in their cherry pie is if it is directly connected to campaign (and other) funding ventures.
  • Fjolsvith 7y ago
    Except this is a regulation that was in place prior that businesses had to obey. Why did the government require it? Why couldn't the business claim "Real Cherry Pie with 25% real cherries" on their product and let the consumer differentiate how many cherries they wanted in their pies? Sounds like bureaucracy that felt that consumers couldn't figure it out. Edit: And, I don't see this as the government trying to trick consumers. I see this as the government getting out of the pissing match between pie makers. Let consumer product watch groups rate the cherry content of pies, I say.
    • ksaj 7y ago
      True. I don't disagree - they shouldn't have been in the business in the first place. Consumers themselves have the (unexercised?) ability to shun fake or filler-laden foods. Given how people seem to be fine about eating fake blueberry muffins for a "healthy" breakfast substitute, we can expect pretty much the same for cherry pies. They could shun it. They don't. It really isn't the federal govt's job to insist on real food products when people are perfectly happy eating junk.