Nutrition Labels Are a Bad Joke, Designed to Mislead, Not to Inform

There's been a great deal of focus on nutrition labels lately. In the EU, the question was whether to have the "more complicated" type or ones that look like traffic lights with stop and go symbols, supposedly designed to be easier for the public to understand. And now, McDonald's has gotten into the act by providing nutrition information about their products.

All of this misses the real issue. Foods are made of ingredients, some natural and some chemical, and those ingredients come from different sources. What we need to know is what's actually in our foods, not some governmental pseudo-health or public relations agency's take on it.

There are many ways to look at nutrition, but what could be more important than what's in the foods we buy, where it comes from, and how it's grown?

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