its coming from worm brains who consumes methlyene blue, which is a dye in itself.
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pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Discouraging use of artificial dye is a good idea. It interferes with people’s ability to make health conscious choices. Requiring labeling would be a great start.
Food dye is used to cover up a lot of food crime. Most of us wouldn’t eat food that needs to be dyed to look safe to eat, if it weren’t dyed, if we had a choice.
Using AI to fast track food regulations is a terrible idea.
Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 week ago
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Except they want “natural” dyes used instead which do the same thing. but “natural” does not necessarily mean better or safer.
source?
so you could argue food dye prevents food waste. if there’s nothing actually wrong with the food other than appearance.
pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Yeah. I mean, yes - there’s a brain worm damaged person heading the FDA.
I was specifically alluding to The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. More generally, modern food production is often still disgusting.
Fair point, which is why I favor labeling. Let people make their own call, with clear labels providing enough information.
No disagreement from me.
My point is that we might not be as quick to hand over control to bull-in-china-shop brain-worm victims if we actually regulated things. We missed that window a long time ago, but it needs to be part of the conversation if there’s to be a recovery.