Re:Meta sued for social media addiction caused by its algorithm
by Aerroon on Friday June 10, 2022 @01:22PM
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You're just asking for ineffective labels (eg California prop 65) or corruption.
Coca-cola has 10.6g of sugar in 100ml. Apple juice has 10g of sugar. Breast milk is about 7g of sugar. Cow milk is about 5g. Coke zero has 0g of sugar. Which of these would you label as dangerous?
French fries, hamburgers, pizzas etc tend to have relatively little sugar in them. Apples have about 50x the sugar content of McDonald's French fries. They're high in carbs, but not necessarily "sugar". Will they escape the label or will they get it for general carb content?
Re:Meta sued for social media addiction caused by its algorithm
by azekai on Friday June 10, 2022 @11:02AM
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I didn't downvote, but I think your solution isn't particularly effective. Part of the problem is food is more fundamental than tobacco; nearly everyone finds some kind of sweet treat appealing. Slapping labels on all the poptarts saying they are 'desserts' doesn't fix the fact that we are almost all hardwired to seek out fats and sugars.
Re:Meta sued for social media addiction caused by its algorithm
by AndrewUnmuted on Friday June 10, 2022 @11:33AM
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We are also hard-wired to seek out salt, not to mention the energy boost and the hand occupation offered by cigarettes.
Re:Meta sued for social media addiction caused by its algorithm
by litesaber on Friday June 10, 2022 @12:02PM
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I think I agree with you in some ways. You may be being downvoted because "clearly labeled as a dessert" is too strong. Maybe we need categorization for quantity of sugar per serving, eg. 1-10g, 10-20g, 30g+ or whatever with different colors or labels. It's very easy to fall for feel-good marketing (eg. healthy/low-fat/organic or whatever) and not realize how full of sugar something is.
More than that, food for which the average servings exceed the daily needs of the average person should have danger warnings. Maybe not that far off from what cigarettes show as health damage caused by them.
Edit: Why is this downvoted? Come on, I want some arguments. The same system has worked for tobacco, and we know food with excess sugar is as bad if not worse. Why shouldn't we do the same thing?