Food Labels, Truth or Not?

I will be the first to tell you that I may not always read the labels on products. A lot of the time I will look at it and see a sticker saying it is healthier for you to buy it without thinking. After reading http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/24/smart-choices-food-labeli_n_332477.html I was shocked to see that the green label was being put on food products such as Fruit Loops and Cracker Jacks. Everyone know that they may taste good but those products are not very high on the nutritional scale. I believe that it is a great idea to postpone the green label use until they do a further investigation to find out if the foods using this label are truly meeting its believe requirements. It is a falsehood to people when they believe they are buying something that they, or their families, not only like but is healthy for them when in reality it is not. http://www.stoplabelinglies.com/news/Food-Labeling---The-Problems-of-Mandated-Information-for-Biotechnology.html is a website that is devoted to trying to get consumers to be more specific about labeling their food but making sure it is understandable to those of us who do not know everything about food products. While this site may be allowed to be considered one sided in some ways it does a great job of showing some of the problems with food labeling that consumers deal with and how it is easy to understand why they would just choose a food because it has a green, healthy choice, label on it.

I believe that until the producers of these products realize the potential harm or violation they are causing their consumers they will continue to be harassed to make their labels more specific. Of course it is always the choice of the consumer to buy the product but most of the time they buy it without knowing anything about it. It is a right for the consumer to know and maybe by doing this companies will not have to worry about getting in trouble for keeping the realities of their products a secret.