Kellogg’s is going to war over Mexico’s nutrition label rules
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Re: Kellogg’s is going to war over Mexico’s nutrition label rules
#2or just copy tobacco companies and not care
they have medical patients on their boxes down there, the trade is a big as ever
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#3I remember this being mentioned in this documentary and other absurdly by our other favorite food corporation, Nestlé:
Re: Kellogg’s is going to war over Mexico’s nutrition label rules
#4War over labels is the "showing initiative" for middle managers at Kellogs. Wait till GLP-1 is going to have widespread effects. Apparently it is already been cited as risk in earnings calls for public companies[0].
[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-18/glp-1-dru...
Re: Kellogg’s is going to war over Mexico’s nutrition label rules
#5or just copy tobacco companies and not care they have medical patients on their boxes down there, the trade is a big as ever
The tobacco companies seemed to care quite a bit in Australia, judging by the legal bullshit they tried here when the government made their packaging unappealing.
The tobacco companies lost, thankfully. :)
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#6"Companies like Coca-Cola and Kraft Heinz have begun designing their products so that their packages don’t have a true front or back, but rather two nearly identical labels — except for the fact that only one side has the required warning. As a result, supermarket clerks often place the products with the warning facing inward, effectively hiding it."
lol. This isn't the kind of innovation we want market capitalism to deliver, but it's exactly the kind it is best at sometimes.
Re: Kellogg’s is going to war over Mexico’s nutrition label rules
#7Nestlé have the support of the Swiss government to fight the same rules.
(Against warning labels on junk food in Mexico: How Switzerland danced to the Nestlé tune)
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#8There must be some way to add a legal mechanism for preventing obvious and egregious loophole exploitation. Why can it not be done?
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#9Junk food manufacturers depend on the addictive nature of the sugar and fat they cram into their products. I don't see how this is any different than cigarette warning labels.
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#10Mexico’s big black hexagons warning across excess fat/sugar/calories are kind of ridiculous. I don’t think they are serving to dissuade consumers, and even foreigners stop noticing the labels after just a couple of weeks in the country. The problem seems to be a wider one: Mexico is importing the convenience-store junk-food culture of its northern neighbor. People are often eating crap because there isn’t much else available from an Oxxo.