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Wait... Are you saying that ramen and mac and cheese are healthy, or that they aren't?
No, they are cheap but ultimately not good for a regular inclusion to a diet. Those 2 products are expections to the rule of being cheaper.
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Here's a news flash: No parent cooks meals 100% of the time. Sometimes, you eat out and sometimes, you buy prepackaged.
I never claimed contrary. The key to a decent diet is moderation. The problems arise when the majority of your food intake consists of Big Macs, hot dogs, Mac & Cheese, General Tso's chicken, or those ****** salsbury steaks that guy on TV always wants to come over your house to eat. As long as it isn't a habit, take-out, pre-packaged, or dining out isn't that bad for you.
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Again, I think that the assumption that lazy fatasses are the ones driving this train of thought are one-dimensional.
The only involvement the lazy fatasses have is that they are the target of both parties. Food corps want them to be lazy and fat and buy their ****. Hippy tree-hugging activists want to make them stop being lazy fatasses, but realize that they are too stupid and fat and lazy to do it themselves, so they want to fix it for them, however; since they can't effect them individually they attack the companies that make the food.
My major arguement is that I don't think you should force a company to change a product if that product isn't a danger in and of itself. It sets a **** precedent if you allow a group like this to decide what a food corp can sell based on what they think people should or shouldnt' eat. It also degrades those people who knowingly purchase these products being fully informed of their content based on product preference.
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I see it as increasing options, and I suppose you see it as limiting options.
I haven't read any article concerning the sodium level reduction and I didn't see any link. From what I could gather based on what you wrote, I assume they want to reduce all products by 50%. That is a limit in options. If they force companies to increase product options I can't see how that won't hurt the company.
In general, people don't care. How many fat fu[Azure][/Azure]cks at a grocery store do you see buying fat free anything? Care to take a guess as to how many people who make pre-packaged food a regular part of their diet will choose a reduced sodium product?