Knowing What you Eat

When I was a kid and eating at McD's with my sister I made an awful mistake. I opened up the bun and looked in at my burger. I immediately lost my appetite. My sister noticed my reaction and told me the golden rule when dealing with McDonalds, Don't look, just eat. I've used that rule ever since and I have never turned away any Mcfood ever since. That rule has come in handy in many situations where examining the food would only turn me away, such as lunch today. In the packet we read written by Eric Schlosser, he argues again my golden rule because the good taste is out weighed by the bad ramifications.
Every day in this class has gone against my theory of food ignorance is tasteful bliss, and I am starting to agree that i have to change my methods. While Micky D's nuggets are delicious, knowing what is in them rightfully turns me away from them. With that in mind, would it be better if food companies described in detail all the facts about the food you eat? I personally would not be able to eat a box of nuggets if it came with a picture book about how the nuggets were made. If all food had warnings like the warning on European cigarettes, but instead of a picture or a clogged artery they had a picture of the meat processing plant where your hamburger came from, or the way your Danimals was made would you still eat them?
I feel that knowing what you eat is important, but too much of that information is bad. The FDA was set up to inform customers about the products they are buying and I feel that the FDA should use their authority to declare where your food came from, if it was modified, and all the ingredients in it. Any information beyond that is counter productive. That is because food corporations would go out of business if every fact about their dubious production methods were presented to their customers on their products. While it is true that a company should not hide anything from their consumer, having a label on the back of a bag that is the size of a novel would displace the important information about the food product. For instance, If a candy bar had to declare everything about how it was produced the life saving information about possible nut contamination would be one part of the size .000000001 font label that describes the ingredients and production methods.
Information about what you eat is vital, but it shouldn't turn you away from eating something that is delicious. Food companies should allow customers access to how their food is produced, but not on the food their eating. Putting that information on the companies web site would be better. I would rather eat delicious things that are nasty than eat things that are produced with care, but have less taste.

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