People could avoid a lot of shit by avoiding products with more than five ingredients and any that use corn syrup, or seed oils. This would weed out 80% of the horseshit and takes a two second glance at the ingredients label to check.
I agree. Hopefully RFK Jr can enact the changes needed to change the 80% of food that doesn't meet those requirements.
Taking 2 seconds to check every single thing you buy is a lot of friction and added stress. Millions of people
could all read the fine print of every food they eat. It would be more efficient if identifying healthy food required less friction.
{USDA: Healthy} labeling on the front of packaging would be good (if you could trust it). It could double as a way to categorize SNAP/FoodStamps acceptable food.
I also don't think 12 bucks for maple syrup is a big deal.
50% of American households have a food budget under $1000/month. 4people × 2000kcals × 30days = 240,000kcals/month. Each $1 dollar needs to buy 240 kcalories of food. Maple syrup being sugar means it needs to offset low calorie foods like green vegetables.
Maple syrup (and "pancake syrup") has roughly 70kcals per ounce. To get at least 240kcals for $1 you need a price of 25¢ an ounce. My mason jars of locally sourced maple syrup meet that requirement. The Amazon 32oz jug doesn't, and the far more likely 12.5oz "Walmart luxury" bottle at 64¢/oz blows the budget.
What also meets the requirement is MrsButterworth. MrsButterworth also has a cute bottle shaped like an old lady. So,
@The Last Stand and small children will also love it. And if they decide to go hog wild and dump the whole bottle of Mrs Butterworth's® Original Thick N Rich Pancake Syrup™ onto their Eggo® Blue Waffles™ their mom won't go ballistic for wasting $10 and making a mess.
Do people really eat pancakes that often?
I eat them maybe once a month if that. They're more of a treat than an actual breakfast in my opinion.
Civilization depends on carbohydrates, quite literally. The dawn of civilization began with the agricultural revolution. Seed oils convert those cheap carbs into cheap fats (along with all the negative side effects).
This kind of logistical thinking is also why "eat ze bugs" ideas permiate globalist thoughts. Additionally, they just hate the masses and want to denigrate them. Solutions related to permaculture don't allow centralized control and make peasants happy, so they are deemphasized.
