Wednesday, March 12, 2008

How It All Adds Up

I am so sick of nutritional labels. All they serve to do is prove how dishonest the companies we are endorsing truley are. You go into a store to get a sandwich, chips, and a drink thinking that you are doing yourself a better service than running out to a fast food resterant only to find out that your lunch is lying to you.
Why don't the companies just say this is how much product we put in your package, and this is how many calories that equals? Instead they play this game with the customer saying that this product has X amount of servings and 1 serving size has X amount of calories. So you think you are making off like a bandit drinking a Ginger Ale with 90 calories when inactuality the gingerale has 2.5 servings and is therefore costing you 225 calories. This is stupid. The companies are so afraid we won't buy their products that they lie to us. Now I am stuck regretting my lunch because with all the calories I consumed I could have gone to Chipotle and gotten overly full. My lunch was sub-par and was elusive in how bad for me it was.

If you can't trust the food industry, who can you trust? (ha...overdramatic, much?)

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