Food Labels

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You know the sayings, “you are what you eat” and “abs are made in the gym and revealed in the kitchen?” Well, it’s difficult for people to realize what they are truly eating, or cooking up in the kitchen, if they don’t understand how their food is produced. Many of the so-called “healthy foods” at local grocery stores are nutritionally deficient and full of chemicals, pesticides, and additives that disrupt your hormonal balance. Even though corporations and lobbyists don't want consumers knowing what's in their food or how their food is produced, we need more transparent foods labels so people know what they are putting in their bodies. As a customer you’re paying for this product. Therefore, you have the right to know if it’s a good long-term investment.
A food label is defined as a source of advertising a food product. Manufacturers attempt to make their food product label as attractive as possible by using bright colors, bold text, food claims, and a lot of information. While too much information on a food label might cause painful headaches for consumers; it's all worth it due to many health and nutrition problems one may contract by eating this product. By law, manufacturers must abide by the standard code terms of what is put on their food label. “The Nutrition Education and Labeling Act of 1990 set the requirements for certain label information to ensure that food labels truthfully inform consumers about the nutrients and ingredients in the package” (Webb 51). In 2012, the FDA reviewed the details of the information, but in general, every packaged food must included: the common or usual name of the product, a barcode, the name and address of the manufacturer packer, or distributor, the net contents in terms of weight, m...

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...n electrical equipment because the labels are there for the consumer's own safety. Warning labels should be available in all foods so that consumers can get an accurate description of what they are buying and how it will affect their health, whether positively or negatively.
Food labeling can be misleading and confusing as you can see. Manufactures should put a stop to this and simplify and makeover, there labels for us consumers. I think it will help buyers understand what they're eating and trust the manufactures on what they're making for us. If more consumers find out what’s really in the food they’re eating and how food labels are not always exact they will stop buying their food. What’s the point of putting information labels if it’s not the truth. I hope Manufactures make a change in this and make it easy for us to understand and let us trust the labels more.

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