Sylvain Charlebois discusses the subtle alteration in the nutritional composition of some products as manufacturing costs soar in the industry.

  • Apathy Tree@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    Why does it always have to be the consumer’s job to watch out for this crap? It’s exhausting going through everything looking for allergens, imagine doing so just to make sure the product you’ve been buying for years hasn’t changed to lower quality without warning.

    Better solution - require that products have a front label stating their recipe has changed, and including a list of changes to it on the back. Quicker reference, easy as hell to tell when something changed.

    Consumer protection really needs to be more robust. We shouldn’t let these companies have all the power to mess with our bodies on a whim without warning.

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      1 year ago

      Especially when they have the money and ability to perfectly read the limits of public attention, or necessary severity of distress before drastic reaction. The general public are too focused on surviving and living to compete with companies who focus entire groups and technologies into finding people’s blind spots and weaknesses.

      It’s a battle of minds and margins, where only one side has resources and power to affect change. Where the fuck are our representatives?

  • MisterD@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Restaurants too. you need 2 subs at Subway to feel full. you can eat an entire pizza at Dominos.

    WTF did they do to the bread?

    • Echo71Niner@kbin.social
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      What’s the matter? Do you find it displeasing when Subway counts the olives, lettuce pieces, and rotten frozen tomatoes? Why anyone would choose to eat at that filthy Subway store is beyond me. In Toronto, a cold cut sandwich now costs $13 before tip.

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        Sure.

        Though tbf sandwiches are the easiest thing to make. Why people are getting something that costs under 4 dollars to make at home in under ten minutes and instead pay to have it made for 13$ and then complain about it but then keep going back is very bizarre to me. You’re paying a buck a minute for someone to slap separate, non cooked ingredients together for you. That’s 60 dollars a minute to just throw pieces of food into another form.
        And you’re not even staying at subway to eat it. People get it to go and eat it anywhere else they could bring their home sandwiches to.