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Originally Posted by Fish
The problem remains, that you're putting the entire responsibility on the restaurant business and none on the individual. It's really not the restaurant's responsibility to ensure that the consumer eat's healthy. The lengths you're going to make it all the restaurant's responsibility are illogical and unreasonable.
How about we find a way to properly educate consumers, instead of allowing bullshit misinformation like the OP, or wasting money going crazy with nutritional info that isn't effective?
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Who said I'm not blaming the individual? I am talking about the many consumers who are trying to educate themselves and STILL are massively misinformed. When a consumer tries really hard and can't, that's a huge problem, and it goes beyond education and posting calorie counts. It's that when you get into mass production of food, food producers and restaurants will begin doing very unnatural things to cut costs or preserve their food. And when you get into marketing food, they will go to great lengths to BS what's in the food. And so you have misinformed consumers eating diet or low fat products that are terrible for you. You have food manufacturers abusing the term "organic" or "low fat", or selling fatty turkey meat passed off as a healthier substitute. Big Food has made a mockery of health standards and knowing what's healthy has become a complicated mess, even for people who know what they're talking about.
When food stops becoming food, then yes, what is wrong with a restaurant or food manufacturer disclosing that? I'm not talking about a small restaurant in your town that serves a dish heavy with butter. I'm talking about understanding all the disgusting things that go into making a McNugget.