The FDA is accepting public comment on the new rules until June 15, and has given maple and honey producers up to three years to comply with the new labeling requirements.
It makes no sense to create a labeling requirement. This would only affect the consumers and not the big companies.
Mayne said federal dietary guidelines say that Americans should get no more than 10 percent of their daily calories from added sugar.
And yet the majority of America already gets way more than 10% of their daily calories from added sugar.
the FDA wants to label maple syrup as containing "added sugar," meaning an additional amount of sugar in your diet.
This seems that the FDA is just trying to promote cheap unhealthy food as pretty much every single food item will have this "added sugar" part in the label. This will make people think that organic food has just the same amount of sugar as inorganic food and then people won't know that organic is better.
where it's illegal to adulterate maple syrup with cane or beet sugar and sell it as the real thing.
This seems like a very effective way to void off the fake inorganic stuff and promote the healthy "organic" lifestyle.
"What's unfair is a government program that encourages dependency rather than incentivizing independence via self sufficiency," Sessions said.
I agree with this. America is built off of capitalism and rugged individualism. If these basic principles are being violated, then what is America based off?
"helps recipients break the cycle of poverty by Improving work opportunities for able-bodied adults receiving federal nutrition assistance."
If this could change the course of many impoverished people, why don't we do it more?