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Comment on F.D.A. to Use A.I. in Drug Approvals to ‘Radically Increase Efficiency’

acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨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.

Except they want “natural” dyes used instead which do the same thing. but “natural” does not necessarily mean better or safer.

Food dye is used to cover up a lot of food crime.

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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.

so you could argue food dye prevents food waste. if there’s nothing actually wrong with the food other than appearance.

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pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Except they want “natural” dyes used instead which do the same thing. but “natural” does not necessarily mean better or safer.

Yeah. I mean, yes - there’s a brain worm damaged person heading the FDA.

Food dye is used to cover up a lot of food crime.

source? i did a brief search but didn’t see anything about.

I was specifically alluding to The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. More generally, modern food production is often still disgusting.

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.

so you could argue food dye prevents food waste. if there’s nothing actually wrong with the food other than appearance.

Fair point, which is why I favor labeling. Let people make their own call, with clear labels providing enough information.

setting the precedent to remove expert opinion of federal law and replace it with court opinion is not good.

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.

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