that she supports this proposal, but the issue is that “the burden of healthy choices is still being placed on individuals.”
He goes on to explain that not only do food companies produce products that are essentially addictive, they then use their immense lobbying power to ensure that these foods remain accessible on the market. Who really wants the food they feed to their children to be pumped full of sugar and salt, causing myriad health concerns? It is in nobody’s best interest for our food policy to be shaped by these massive corporations apart from the corporations’ themselves.
The Biden administration’s proposal to add more nutrition info on the front of food packaging isn’t a terrible idea. There are many who are likely to benefit from this policy, if enacted. But like so many other of the administration’s proposed solutions, it’s nothing more than a comically small Band-Aid on a problem caused by unfettered capitalism and the flow of corporate money into the American political system.