Some people want more nutrition information on food labels–but who really understands those labels anyway?
In honor of Halloween, John Oliver highlighted America’s sugar consumption and the ever-raging wars over mandatory food-labeling.
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Americans, Oliver noted, consume 75 pounds of sugar per year, each—or, as he described it: “That’s like eating Michael Cera’s weight in sugar every single year.”
Oliver joked about the absurdity of the government’s fight with the sugar industry. Industry players, like the National Frozen Pizza Institute or the Corn Refiner’s Association, hire scientists to downplay sugar’s effects on health, and lobby the government to give them exceptions to arbitrary food labeling laws.
But, Oliver observes, who actually understands those labels about sugar content?
“This proposed FDA food label is completely missing the point. If they really want us to understand how much sugar is in food, they need to find a measurement we can immediately grasp.”
See what Oliver came up with below:
