Interesting point on food labelling.
A ready meal supposedly serving 2, from a British supermarket.
Ham and Tomato with Roasted Mushrooms.
Sounds good and without food labelling an enticing prospect.
However from memory, it contained around 66% of RDA for saturated fats and 75% RDA for Salt intake and judging by the look of the box, I'd say some peoples idea of a serving would be the whole lot, not half.
People should think more but they won't. I see people wandering around with massive guts seemingly not caring one jot about how they are abusing themselves. Women who's guts are about 3-4 inches infront of their knees. Men with what look like waists of over 48" and they just don't care and they don't care how it will affect other people, if they get ill from their obesity or die prematurely.
It's the same thing with smoking and excessive drug and alcohol consumption. It's all me, me, me, me, me and don't tell me any diffferent and don't lecture me and I haven't got a problem and if smoking is bad for the environment, how will me stopping smoking help the environment?
Alternatively, what's it got to do with you if I use substances, I'm not harming anyone?
There's one born every minute, that just has to have that first try of something and then gets hooked, because they throw common sense out of the window, or listen to people who threw common sense out of the window before them and get swayed.
It won't stop people either. People have more health propaganda in their faces now and things like the internet to educate them, but there's an ever growing world populous, so for those people who try to quit a bad habit, or alternatively their bad habit quits them, (morbid way to put it I know), one day, there will be someone taking that first chance the same day, or tomorrow, who will get hooked.
The world is a fools paradise and the manufacturers know how to get a fools money. It's exactly the same with things like Fat burners, electronic abs belts, or in this case drink sticks, that allow you to administer the likes of Caffeine, Sugar and other pointless things into your bottled water.
Another standpoint, is the ramifications from abolition of such things. If people lobbied for drink stick abolition, or Fat burner abolition as examples, there might be tightening of regulations, or possibly not, but such things would never be banned, as there would be lost company profits to not glean tax from and possibly employees out of work, claiming monies to live, not paying them in taxes.
Possibly even some small companies going bust, leading to more people claiming monies to live, not paying taxes and also government gaining 0% tax from 0% operating revenues, so the will of the people versus the governement purse, would almost certainly lose out.
To some people, there is thinking about what you put in your mouth, I.E. do I want, a big Mac with fries, or a Quarter pounder with fries, or should I let kids eat KFC bargain bucket?
So you have every right to rant, but then it's the anti war song mentality. People like Black Sabbath, Creedence Clearwater Revival, James Brown, Jefferson Airplane, Grand Funk Railroad and 10 Years After, did such songs and not once did people like Johnson, Nixon or Ford, bow down to such common sense, laid down in musical form and put a halt to Vietnam.
It happened when it happened and most people will be whistling dixie, when it comes to wanting abolition of unneccesary products / gimmicks.
More propoganda and tightening of regulations is needed, but look at another example, with the deaths from Hydroxycut Hardcore. A chance for the FDA to lambast or scapegoat all such products, but no, they scapegoated that product and avoided a "tarring with the same brush" mentality, which would have been justified in that instance, but effectively fails to warn those, emotionally weak enough to be tempted, about other fat burners, thermogenic serums and appetite suppressants, so justifiable caveats on such products, failed to materialise like they should have done.
When significant risk to governement purse is at stake, don't expect any government to abolish stupid, or potentially dangerous products, that target the health market, because they dont' get anything out of it, so why should it interest them to make such bold and brave moves?
They'll take the cowards way out of doing little to nothing, using shrouds like too much red tape, or it's not as simple as that, to fob off people with no significant understanding, of many different political maschinations and their relevant outcomes, regardless of how simple or otherwise, bold statements of action, against poor and potentially unhealthy products, are to make
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I'm excited and nervous at the same time. 
Feel better inside and out. 