Behind food labels, nutritional limitations and restrictions, sustainable consumption of endangered and ethnic species and the overall food ethics there are many hooks and flaws. New York Times sharply points out what goes behind food ethics and nutritional propagandas, to which consumers and diners are blissfully ignorant. They are as follows:
1. Calorie-free Mocha – Then consumers should simply stop drinking this American invention, which by virtue is supposed to have condensed, and full creamed milk, chocolate syrup and one-third espresso. At a standard 290 calories, it is an indulgence and after this revelation, it would be useless to sue Starbucks, Costa Coffee or Barista for it.
2. ‘Meaty’ Labels – The reason behind all the E.Coli and Salmonella outbreaks is quite obviously the lobby hired by the big players in the meat industry, to delay the regulation passed by U.S. Department of Agriculture to label meat as per their country-of-origin. Is USDA considering the $1.9 billion sum for implementing the labels? The consumers can rest assured that without meat labels, meat packers would continue to bring new meat-related diseases with their imports.
3. Ethical Eats – It is all about eating after all from animals that are reared in a humane way. Is not this ridiculous? At the end of the day, these animals are eaten and therefore ‘ethics’ hardly matters here. With the Certified Humane regulations, the animal activists are mocking their own image.
4. Viruses that kill bacteria – How were our ancestors living longer than us, surviving on game meat? Are we convincing our consumers on the advancement of technology, pulling the meat directly from hens and feeding it to them? This virus might be sprayed on vegetables one day, not requiring the consumers to wash the veggies before cooking. Briefly, food technology is segregating food consumption from healthy lifestyle of consumers.
5. Fizzing claims – Our beverage industry is more skilled at giving healthy claims to our consumers. To top it all is the research, who refutes the claims with fizzing research. A research that would call soda a poison would serve the American consumer in better ways.
6. Whole Foods – While this was supposed to be for whole grains, the whole foods stamp has melted down to market sausage-topped pizzas and potpies regulated by Agriculture Department.
