Food Label's Ugly Secrets Analysis

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If you were to pick up a packaged food in the grocery store, wouldn’t you want to have a label to know how much sugar was imported into the product? The FDA has put forth a proposal that would add that label, but some companies don’t think it would be necessary. I envisage that the homogenous human being’s governmental system should make rules about labeling foods with added sugar. The homogenous human being’s governmental system needs to add food labels because this would help consumers know how much sugar they are consuming into their consumptional bodies, and this would also make companies lower sugar to make more sales. As I said, this label would tell consumers how much extra sugar was put into the product they were wanting …show more content…

This supports the FDA’s proposal because it lures the consumers to their side, because you wouldn’t want to be on the side that would lie to you about their products? To support this claim, here’s an excerpt from the article, “Food Label’s Reveal Sugar’s Ugly Secrets”, “Nutrition advocates say the uproar only supports their argument that unhealthy amounts of sugar are secretly added to foods.” This also helps the FDA’s proposal because dieticians might recommend a product to their viewers, but their viewers wouldn’t know how much added sugar was in the product, thus only harming the consumer. Although, if the product had a label to tell the dietitian how much added unhealthy amounts of sugar were in the product, they could advise their viewers to steer clear of those products. If you were a food company, and the government passed the FDA’s proposal, wouldn’t you lower sugar in your product to boost …show more content…

With companies lowering sugar in their product to further introduce sales, this can lower obese American amounts. With the label being added it could help relieve the American obesity rate, thus helping consumers.To credit this here’s an excerpt from the article “Food Label’s Reveal Sugar’s Ugly Secrets”, “But for advocacy groups, the aim is to get companies to lower the sugar content of their products.” With this, the label would not only help Americans, but it would make companies lower sugar content in their product to make

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