Eegore
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I read the article.
"I really thought you said the people would rebel against that."
They did. In NY when they banned trans-fat people protested, restaurants protested, people said it was an overreach of government authority. (Its proven that strokes, clots and heart-attacks were reduced in counties with trans-fat bans, which lead to a national ban.)
The exact same thing happened again when they proposed a soda drink size ban for certain sales locations. Government overreach!
I really don't know enough about how effective lobbying is in the EU, or how influential voters are over their version of the FDA, but it seems to me their food governance works about the same as healthcare. Comparing their healthcare system and ours is apples and oranges.
In any case I think the US is way too big, and the FDA runs way too many health improving processes like enforcing severe pesticide use, blood transfusions, pharmaceutical testing, to just take it away. It could be greatly improved for sure.
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