Democrats To Mandate Food Labels ON FRONT Of Packaging

[Fear No Evil]

Why do I care whats in food? FREE HEALTHCARE BABY! You are paying for my bad choices bitches!

 

[Nemesis 1]

I honestly don't give a flying fuck about these labels. I know what is healthy and what is not healthy, I know what tastes good and what doesn't. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that shit out.

What about the poison they put in your water to be ingested. What purpose does it serve. My village no longer puts that poisen in our water. Read whats in rat poison. Same shit differant target.

 

[Genx87]

I wont be satisfied until the govt sends somebody out to read the labels for me.

 

[CADsortaGUY]

ZOMG, more easily accessible information, wasn't that one of Hitler's demands on Poland? D:

🙄

The information is already there you twit. It is no more "accessible" with this BS from the gov't.

 

[CADsortaGUY]

OK, I don't get it. They force the manufacturer to put the nutritions info on the front of a product. What if the manufacturer then puts their product label in the back of the package, then isn't everything back to the same situation we have right now?

Shhh.... turning a box around means BHO and his thugs will mandate how a package is displayed 😉

 

[IndyColtsFan]

Whatever. The dumbing down of America continues. If you're too stupid to look on the side or back of a package for the labels, you probably can't read the labels to begin with and this won't help much.

 

[Red Dawn]

Why do I care whats in food? FREE HEALTHCARE BABY! You are paying for my bad choices bitches!

No your appearance is paying for your bad nutritional choices.

 

[Martin]

So conservatives want people to be more personally responsible. But people shouldn't have access easy access to information to make decisions?

Proof, once again, that conservatives just like to bitch about things.

 

[Genx87]

So conservatives want people to be more personally responsible. But people shouldn't have access easy access to information to make decisions?

Proof, once again, that conservatives just like to bitch about things.

Are there labels on the back?

 

[Pens1566]

Oh no, the horror.

 

[werepossum]

Whatever. The dumbing down of America continues. If you're too stupid to look on the side or back of a package for the labels, you probably can't read the labels to begin with and this won't help much.

This. The Democrats know their core constituency is far too stupid to read labels anyway, so this is just a step toward the real goal of having Government mandate what you eat. (As we see from this thread, a majority of liberals will herald this too as a great step forward for mankind.) The next intermediate step will be a pictograph system which will be equally useless, but we have to train food manufacturers to be good little government bots. Personally I'm with Ozoned, I'd rather see the country of origin added - on the BACK, with the nutritional information, with the brand name and the food details (plus of course a picture for the Democrat voters and illiterates - but I repeat myself) on the FRONT of the package.

Kinda brings my signature quote into focus though. Silly rabbit, you can't just eat as much as you want. What do you think you are, a free person?

 

[IndyColtsFan]

So conservatives want people to be more personally responsible. But people shouldn't have access easy access to information to make decisions?

Proof, once again, that conservatives just like to bitch about things.

Yeah, because it is so freaking hard to turn the box around to read a label. God, are you guys really this dense?

I really don't care if labels appear on the front or not, but don't act like the Democrats are doing some great, noble deed with this rule. Again, if people are so damn dumb that they can't turn a box over to read the label, they probably can't read the label in the first place.

What next -- are they going to mandate that store shelves must be stocked so the front of the box with the label on it must face the aisle, or else the store faces fines???

 

[CPA]

Honestly, before package labeling was mandated to the extent it is now, I'm quite sure there would have been plenty of the same naysayers saying, "Oh no! I need government to save me from myself."

The reality is that people don't. You can sit there on your soapbox and call everyone lazy or you can acknowledge that we have a long-standing problem with how food is presented in the marketplace and come up with solutions.

What I don't think you're understand is marketing. People don't investigate to find something out. They look, very casually, and generally make a quick determination based on some largely superficial data. Having the label on the front of the box will absolutely make a difference in how consumers make purchases.

Finally, some people think that our food supply is of equal importance to much else. I think this is a bit silly, too, but solutions to deal with the epidemic of poor eating habits is a tremendous priority for us all.

And you'll be saying the same thing when they start mandating sodium levels, fat levels, sugar levels, etc.

 

[nageov3t]

Yeah, because it is so freaking hard to turn the box around to read a label. God, are you guys really this dense?

what's the harm in allowing people to see nutritional information while walking down the aisle without making them stop, pick up the box, and turn it around?

 

[cyclohexane]

I'm so upset about this, that I'm moving to Kenya.

I'm going to seek out and marry a mid-western US-born woman while there.

I'm going to impregnate her, and we will move to a fringe US state where birth records are easily falsified (Alaska, Hawaii) just after our child is born. Then, we shall falsify birth records.

I shall then wait patiently for 40 years, while thoroughly studying Alinsky, Rev. Wright, and other agitators.

At this point, the trap is set. My boy shall be elected by an electoral college majority to serve as president of this God-forsaken land, and reign supreme over his detractors, mandating detailed calorie listings on the FRONT of packagings.

Hell yeah.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

what's the harm in allowing people to see nutritional information while walking down the aisle without making them stop, pick up the box, and turn it around?

Nothing, but why does the government need to "mandate" it? Are they also mandating that it needs to be in 72 point font so you can easily view it while walking down the aisle? Are they going to mandate that stores must stock shelves so these labels appear outward or else, fine the store? Or are they next going to mandate that the label appears on all sides?

Come on, this is absurdly silly. The information is there -- turn the damn box around. Must the government hold everyone's hand????

 

[Anubis]

This is aimed at the tl,dnr crowd. Putting the labels on the front is not going to change the attention span of that crowd.

Those who care about nutritional information will turn the package around. Those who don't care will buy whatever they think tastes good to them. Putting labels on the front will make no significant difference.

this is 100% true, it will change nothing

 

[Doc Savage Fan]

This is a stupid idea and many of the posts in this thread are a telling example of the lemming mentality of moronic partisans.

Now if they increase the minimum type size...that would be a huge improvement.

 

[nageov3t]

Nothing, but why does the government need to "mandate" it? Are they also mandating that it needs to be in 72 point font so you can easily view it while walking down the aisle? Are they going to mandate that stores must stock shelves so these labels appear outward or else, fine the store? Or are they next going to mandate that the label appears on all sides?

Come on, this is absurdly silly. The information is there -- turn the damn box around. Must the government hold everyone's hand????

everyone looks at the front of the box.

not everyone takes the time to stop, turn the box around, and read it. maybe this will encourage food manufacturers to try and hit lower calorie numbers instead of using disingenuous statements like "no trans fat!!!" to market their Sugar Corn Syrup O's as health foods.

 

[Linflas]

Democrats wet dream fantasy food labels. All it needs is updating to include the nutrition info. None of that pesky evil corporation produced attractive packaging needed.

 

[Fingolfin269]

This is stupid. At least now fat ass people will see that those Ding Dongs and Twinkies are not actually good for them? Because we know that having the label up front will prevent them from gorging themselves...

 

[Fear No Evil]

Why don't we just mandate a healthy diet? Problem solved.

 

[Xellos2099]

I don't really care if they put label in the front. Most of the so call health request soup taste so bad it doesn't matter how good they are for you.

 

[daishi5]

everyone looks at the front of the box.

not everyone takes the time to stop, turn the box around, and read it. maybe this will encourage food manufacturers to try and hit lower calorie numbers instead of using disingenuous statements like "no trans fat!!!" to market their Sugar Corn Syrup O's as health foods.

Manufacturers can easily hit the lower calorie numbers, just increase the number of servings per container without actually increasing the amount of product in the container. Presto, instantly lower calorie numbers. I seem to remember something I bought having 3 servings per muffin or something else ridiculously inane.

The problem is that nutrition information is complex, and contains a lot of important data. People who are looking for the information generally use some basic rules of thumb, calories, sodium content, vitamins, or some other thing they think is important like a little sticker that says "all natural." They don't take all the data there and consider it because it is complex, and moving the data from the back to the front does not make it instantly easier to comprehend.

 

[ch33zw1z]

just because something is unprocessed, that doesn't make it good for you, and vice versa.

I like this change. it'll save me a few minutes in the grocery store every time I go... there's also a bit that was slipped into the health care bill about making fast food chains display calorie counts on their menus which I thought was awesome too.

now if we could just get caloric maximums in our school lunches..

What exactly do you have in mind for caloric maximum in school lunches? I ask because my 3.75 year old is on a high fat/calorie diet due to his metabolism and soon enough will be in school full time. Should he suffer because some fatty can't control portions?