Sort of a poorly-written article, but the idea is something we should look into here in the US. America likes everything on a shelf to look the same, likes all our money to look the same, likes all its people to look the same, but that means no one can tell one thing from another. We need better food-labeling, that's already been established. Advertising gets to determine how healthy something seems, or gets to override health issues by making something look so cool that no one cares if it'll kill you. But food is a basic need, and its health and therefore our health should be the driving factor.
So why no color-code the food labels? The rising obesity levels in this country are always all over the news, there's several shows about ridiculously fat people around, but nothing has really changed about marketing the food and presenting it. Hopefully, if someone could get the point across that some food is just not good for you, demand would force manufacturers to do better.*
*...she said, knowing full well that the health of the people on the other end of manufacturing is very rarely the point of the business...
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