After reading Marcie Barnes’s Global Issues in Nutrition Communication: Focus on Food Labeling, I can understand why so many Americans still eat bad food. Even educated consumers run to Sam’s Club to buy loads of ground beef. (How about beef recalls?) Labeling is evasive and shifty, but here is the solution, as Marcie points out. Buy better food. It’s out there with plenty of stores that provide quality products. Your health is at risk if you don’t; again, as Marcie points out, maybe not immediately but eventually.
62% of Americans are overweight and 25% are obese. Pesticides in our food cause brain cell death as well as reproductive damage. Helpful blogs like Marcie’s are priceless but the consumer has to be willing to make a change. If the government continues to mislead and allows false and deceptive labeling, then it only makes sense to buy products from that part of the industry that you can trust: organic, cruelty free, and naturally raised foods. I bet if every American started on an organic diet, with an all-natural agenda to their meal planning, then the medical and insurance industries would lose quite a few costumers.
