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I've long believed that about many consumer products like chocolate or candy. Why should it be allowed to sell and market this stuff to children when longterm d

I've long believed that about many consumer products like chocolate or candy. Why should it be allowed to sell and market this stuff to children when longterm damage is somewhat unknown or known to be quite bad. No, saying "everything in moderation" is not a valid religious dogma to use here. Moderation is a term used for "eat the correct amounts" and what is correct is up for the discussion.

darraghenright 4y ago
Indeed. About a decade and a half ago I went backpacking, which plucked me out of my western European reality for a few months. When I returned, I was very shocked every time I walked into any convenience store for a snack to realise that these places pretty much exclusively sold nothing but sugary, nutritionally void garbage wrapped in plastic. If there was a deli, the food products were the lowest imaginable quality. At that moment it felt like a very large and problematic social addiction. I'd normalised this all my life.
- rdtwo 4y ago
  Where did you go that the local grocery Marts weren’t just stuffed full of dried and canned foods? Fresh food is a huge luxury
makeitdouble 4y ago
With that approach you'll also have to do the same for rice, wheat, salt, butter, milk, carbonated water, etc. Basically every ingredients we daily use, like the ones currently classified as Generally Safe in the US [0] I'm not sure any country is ready to go through requalification through long and extensive health trials of every single food product they've been using litteraly centuries. That's a crazy monumental effort (there is no consensus on food that doesn't need any moderation, so yes, it becomes a all or nothing issue) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generally_recognized_as_safe https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generally_recognized_as_safe
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I've long believed that about many consumer products like chocolate or candy. Why should it be allowed to sell and market this stuff to children when longterm d

by Nathanba 4y ago

darraghenright 4y ago
Indeed. About a decade and a half ago I went backpacking, which plucked me out of my western European reality for a few months. When I returned, I was very shocked every time I walked into any convenience store for a snack to realise that these places pretty much exclusively sold nothing but sugary, nutritionally void garbage wrapped in plastic. If there was a deli, the food products were the lowest imaginable quality. At that moment it felt like a very large and problematic social addiction. I'd normalised this all my life.
- rdtwo 4y ago
  Where did you go that the local grocery Marts weren’t just stuffed full of dried and canned foods? Fresh food is a huge luxury
makeitdouble 4y ago
With that approach you'll also have to do the same for rice, wheat, salt, butter, milk, carbonated water, etc. Basically every ingredients we daily use, like the ones currently classified as Generally Safe in the US [0] I'm not sure any country is ready to go through requalification through long and extensive health trials of every single food product they've been using litteraly centuries. That's a crazy monumental effort (there is no consensus on food that doesn't need any moderation, so yes, it becomes a all or nothing issue) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generally_recognized_as_safe https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generally_recognized_as_safe
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