You're the one making up the idea - that's not an idea people have. Regulators and middle managers provide me with limited options for each of those thousand c

You're the one making up the idea - that's not an idea people have. Regulators and middle managers provide me with limited options for each of those thousand choices, and I, without having to think much, can pick one of them safely. For each of my choices, various regulators and managers have all gotten many says already. Some bureaucrat does manage my diet, and your diet too, but they don't micromanage it, and nobody is saying they should micromanage it It's perfectly feasible for regulators to identify when companies are adding sugars - look at the recipe, inspect the factory, put things in bomb calorimeters. Thats not at all absurd, and there's already standards maintained for basically everything, including foods like peanut butter (see: https://youtu.be/esQyYGezS7c https://youtu.be/esQyYGezS7c ) If it was absurd, it would be impossible to do food safety regulation, like ensuring that food doesn't contain toxins or heavy metals