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Sean McBride is the founder of the DSM Strategic Communications and is the former vice president of the former grocery manufacturer association (currently the Consumer Brand Association). The opinion is its own.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The US Health and Welfare Minister is not ashamed of his feelings about packaging foods. When he has a chance, he will say that the processed foods we eat are the causes of obesity, diabetes and hypertension, and most of the American public health crisis. Sometimes he goes farther, claiming that the packed food is poisoning.
RFK’s Investigation -It appears to be amplified by Make American Healthy Again Movement. According to a recent NBC news poll, 35%of Americans have been accused of chronic health problems in the food industry.
Overall, MAHA FOOD Policy Agenda represents the federal government’s most aggressive arbitration of food production after food, pharmaceutical and cosmetics law in 1938. However, many regulatory intervention pays a lot of money to companies and consumers with little or no benefit.
MAHA FOOD Agenda is strange for several reasons. First of all, the industry -friendly Trump administration is currently actively regulating all other economic sectors. The focus of the food industry seems to be unfair. In recent decades, companies have helped consumers to eat healthy as before. Finally, the government’s actions have been proven to be entirely inefficient in fighting obesity and related health problems.
The public health environment in Korea is definitely confusing, but let’s provide credit for the deadline. Food companies have fundamentally changed their food supply over the past 25 years. Of course, sustainable agricultural practices and ethical sourcing are not exceptions these days, but rules, but the biggest changes are health and health.
Unlike when we were young, groceries are full of thousands of choices that people can use to customize meals or to manage chronic health for better nutrition and weight management. If we are honest, there are too many choices for grocery shops, so shopping can be overwhelming. In all categories, there are hundreds of products with reduced calories, reduced sugar, reduced sugar, or decreased saturated fat, zero or zero or reduced sodium, more vitamins and minerals, gluten free, more protein and more grains.
It’s just the beginning because the food sector has created the entire category to meet the needs of health -sensitive consumers. Organic food was a new sector in the 1990s. Now it is an industry worth $ 65 billion every year. The cleaner and familiar ingredients and clean labels made of food chemicals are currently $ 50 billion annually.
The industry has also been a long way to make it easier to approach healthy foods. The cost of organic foods was once a barrier to some families, but the purchase of Amazon’s Whole Foods has narrowed the difference in the price of the store and the other retailer’s choice of organic.
All, this is no longer the food supply of your grandparents. It is healthy, nutritious and provides all the options needed for Americans to achieve a balanced diet.
Nevertheless, the Trump administration’s Maha Strategic Report has held a continuous prosecution of food supply to present numerous new policies dealing with materials, advertising practices, and labeling.
Policys defined by governments, including food tax and advertising restrictions, are well documented, and the obesity of Latin America, Europe or the United States has been worsened even after the obesity related issues are the same or as in Chile for several years.
Some believe that there is a magical wand as a combination of government regulations or a combination of regulations. This is what MAHA and their philosophical allies are not recognized -after decades, after the study of the tank dollar, consumers’ actions and decisions are still not fully understood to solve the problem.
In fact, it tells itself -the deviling of packaging foods is a red herring because we have a lot of safe, nutritious, healthy, and cheap food choice at our fingertips. Instead, we must know why we motivate such choices and what we need to find before we proceed with more government orders.
Mystery is obvious. Consumers have the safest and healthy food supply in modern history, but obesity and related diseases continue to rise. It is a mystery we need to solve, but it is closer to us to punish food companies that poison them or do the right things.
Otherwise, MAHA’s food policy agenda begins to feel like a political movement, as opposed to public health movements.
