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Re:Breakfast cereal is in long-term decline by Timon3 on Sunday September 17, 2023 @07:58AM (#37544101)
> I think no one would _really_ object to labelling like oatmeal healthier than chips.

Chip manufacturers certainly would (and do). They pay money to politicians to keep these regulations away, and they pay money to media to stir up a counter-movement against these ideas.

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Re:Breakfast cereal is in long-term decline by vintermann on Monday September 18, 2023 @06:57AM (#37554581)
Yeah, the top tree in this thread very quickly degenerated into "government is bad" reflexive anti-regulationism.
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Re:Breakfast cereal is in long-term decline by Timon3 on Monday September 18, 2023 @07:47AM (#37554931)
I think that often times this is circular reasoning:

- no reasonable person would be against this

- capitalists are successful, so they must be reasonable

- capitalists are against this

=> they must be against this for good reasons, since they are reasonable

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