I propose an easy to understand ingredient grading lists with associated product packaging. I feel like a big part of why people eat unhealthy is that they simply accept that food they can buy won’t hurt them. Banning things outright is not only hard to do, but also takes the choice away from consumers. By making a tiered ingredient list, from A-F just like in school, and requiring the lowest graded ingredient determines what is prominently displayed on the product packaging or menu, it makes it easy for consumers at a glance to see the quality of the food. This grading should apply not only to food bought at the grocery store, but it should also be listed on restaurant menus for each menu item. It would not only inform the public of the quality of food, but it would deter food companies and restaurants from serving low quality/harmful food. Nobody wants to put an F rating on their product/menu with a disclaimer as to why.
For example:
Grade A ingredients:
Any non-gmo organic produce(lettuce, apples, etc…)
Free-range organic grass-fed anti-bio free meats
Grade C ingredients:
Anti-Bio free meats
Pesticide free produce
Grade F ingredients:
GMO produce with bare minimum controls on pesticides etc…
Any petroleum byproduct derived ingredients.
Bio-engineered ingredients