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For healthier eating, an Energy Star rating on food

More rating stars, more pictures, and fewer words. Words are so difficult.

While this offensive idea is a heinous insult to America, it is deserved.

Americans are becoming stupider and stupider every year. We are pandering to the least common denominator in our society in an attempt to correct a deficiency in our educational system. We don't need to further burden the food industry with a cutesy rating system that will be just as arbitrary as the current nutrition labeling that is currently required on many food products.

That being said, it would be nice to just fix what is wrong with the current nutritional labels. And what about fresh fruits and veggies, and meats for the non-vegetarians. No amount of label tweaking will make people choose healthy or non-healthy foods. We have been telling people the wrong information about meat and dairy for hundreds of years and we continue to do so because of the lobbying power of those two industries. And the people continue to buy into the propaganda that both the industry and the government spew out about the health benefits when in fact these choices are literally killing us.

People know that both vegetarian and vegan diets are healthier than the standard American diet, yet they continue to ignore that information in favor of convenience or a taste for sweet or fat. We continue to dumb down our food labeling in an attempt to help people when the problem is more systemic to our government and an industrial complex that are in league with each other. We can also blame our cultural heritage derived from the wild west version of cowboy nutrition. We stopped burning 3500 daily calories a long time ago when we all left the family farm for the big city. Until we can force people to make the right food choices, no amount of labeling will be adequate.