But I would hate for food to be more expensive and take up a larger portion of people’s incomes. That would be a step in the wrong direction.
Still, the government needs to step in and and regulate consumer goods for our overall benefit. There’s a lot of false marketing and brand differentiation out there but the chemical ingredients are the same.
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Rise in food cost is a necessity. simply because there are current government interferance in place that artificially suppress food cost. we need to remove them as they are not necessary and quite frankly we can’t afford them. This is $35 billion we can save annually.
The marketing to children need to be heavily regulated. We now have very good understanding of the chemical dependency feedback loop of sugar. Therefore, marketing campaign of food to children need to be regulated just like alcohol and tobacco ads are regulated.
The calorie info regulation need to be expanded. We can’t have the restaurants simply print out calorie info and then hide it under the condiments. I say regulation that forces calorie info to appear directly next to the price. (ie Big Mac combo, $4.99, 1250 calorie) Or best yet, when restaurants advertise, they need to have the calorie next to it too. (ie Domino Pizza, when advertising their deep dish pizza for $9.99, need to show it packs in 2600 calorie).
Food packaging and terminology is another hot button issue. Use of whole wheat and organic and low fat or low calorie are simply completely random and way too liberal to the point that none of it prove to be helpful.
lastly, consider processing tax. So as whole wheat is processed into white flour, there is enough taxes to make the white flour more expensive than the non-refined flour alternative.
just some thoughts. maybe very nanny state to some people, but a lot of it is really just more and better info.
