By Brian Bienkowski Kraft Heinz, the food giant behind dozens of popular brands including Oscar Mayer, Jell-O, Velveeta and Kool-Aid, will not launch any new foods with synthetic dyes and will remove the dyes from its current products by the end of 2027, the company said Tuesday.
“Kraft Heinz” lobbies the FDA to redefine “synthetic dye” by 2027.
See also: organic farming. We define what’s allowed to charge you extra. Is it less awful? Maybe! Is it more expensive? Definitely!
I agree, not all natural products are innocuous but still isn’t the point that organic IS less awful? I’m thinking especially regarding biodiversity and conditions in which the animals live (at least in France, it is the label with the strictest standards for animal “welfare”). I get that it’s not perfect but I don’t think we should wait to have the perfect system to get rid of some of the absolutely shitty parts in the current system.
Is it more expensive? To the customer yes. For real, once you include environmental benefits, health costs from cancers etc and take into account the fact that organic farmers usually receive zero help from governments (I’m considering the french case here), you realise that the price gap is not as big as you think and that a major part of it is because pesticides have made agriculture unnaturally “cheap” (i.e. with a lot of invisible costs).
Can you expand on this?
Sure thing. This article goes in depth, but the short version is that natural doesn’t necessarily mean safe.
I would not call that in depth. It just lists some of the substances.
I agree, but it does cover the entirety of my suspicion towards organic produce.
Well damn. For me the bullshit part is that they aren’t required to tell us which ones they did actually use on whatever I am purchasing.
Cyanide is natural and organic.