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Why, that's just good ol' laizzez faire economics or, as the GOP likes to call it, the "free market." What's wrong with global corporations making increased profit off your health? What's wrong if they lie to do it? It's just good business and, after all, business supercedes any other consideration....right?
Go ahead. Support the modern-day incarnation of the Republican Party and their corporate sponsor's. Rest assured, you'll get even more of this kind of stuff because government regulations are what's wrong with our economy and we need to cancel them all!
But, if you like living in the era of the Robber Barons II, remember a phrase from Robber Barons I: Let the buyer beware!
Pretty interesting. Fake fruits and vegetables are in a lot of 'boxed' crap, unfortunately. Usually, it's obvious enough because it doesn't really taste like the fruit at all, but more like artificially flavored corn syrup and other ingredients designed to simulate berries.
I don't think the means really exist at this juncture to have bona fide fruits in 'fresh' form (meaning with water [not dehydrated or freeze dried] - and not loaded with preservatives) in most packaged foods (only canning them can preserve them for a long duration). They spoil too quickly.
The only thing you can do is either dehydrate them (a very cost effective option, but also a very useless option in almost all food products because they become rock hard when you dehydrate it, and dehydrated food is much harder to rehydrate than freeze dried) or freeze dry them. The latter could be an option in some recipes where the freeze dried berries are not in contact with a moist substance (e.g. can work perfectly in most cereals), but it would be no good in other recipes (like muffins - because the freeze dried blueberry would simply rehydrate on contact, and then spoil quickly). The freeze dried option is an expensive one, and it would perhaps be nice if manufacturers considered going that route instead of selling the fake fruit crap.... but that will take consumers complaining en masse for that option.
Does anybody know enough history to know why we have a Food and Drug Administration in the first place?
It was created in 1906 to protect people from adulterated foods and medicines. Just like today, industry was marketing fake foods and using unsafe fillers to maximize profits and there was no way to stop them from doing so. The public could be poisoned with impunity and without recourse.
So, if the FDA is legally tasked with preventing just such things as these fake blueberries, why don't they?
The answer might be found in who has been appointed to head the administration. Since the administration of Richard Nixon, nearly every Commissioner (with the exception of the current one) has either come from, or went on to, big pharma. Before then, the Commissioners usually came out of academia or the actual practice of medicine.
In other words, those who have been directing the administration's efforts have been associated with those who are making the most profit from the sale of adulterated foods. The pharmaceutical industry is getting rich selling us medicines to counter-act or offset the effects of the crap we're being sold to eat!
Perhaps the FDA is failing in it's mission to prevent just such atrocities as these blueberries because we've bought into the lie that it's best to let the fox guard the henhouse.
If you've ever eaten anything like this, you just KNOW the "fruit" isn't real. I don't even pick up stuff like this. Not because I'm an overly healthy eater or anything but because after trying stuff like this once, it's obvious it's fake.
Nothing will ever change until all the dumb Americans wakeup and have a say about it. But that won't happen. Fake or otherwise, they enjoy their fake food.
Pretty much old news. Reading the labels will take care of any deception.
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