Re:More than 800 startups sign letter objecting to plans to ...
by aninhumer on Friday April 28, 2017 @11:29AM
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>If nutrition facts regulations went away tomorrow, I suspect the market would enforce their existence anyway.
Yes, because people are used to it now, so they'd be suspicious of products omitting them. Nonetheless, I suspect even that would slowly be eroded over time.
>you would get many startups who study what makes something healthy
You have plenty of diet purveyors telling you what to eat now. Most of them are not particularly evidence-based, and many of them are straight up wrong, but people listen to them and they make money regardless. People have little way to judge their accuracy.
Yes, because people are used to it now, so they'd be suspicious of products omitting them. Nonetheless, I suspect even that would slowly be eroded over time.
>you would get many startups who study what makes something healthy
You have plenty of diet purveyors telling you what to eat now. Most of them are not particularly evidence-based, and many of them are straight up wrong, but people listen to them and they make money regardless. People have little way to judge their accuracy.