Hook/Starting Statement: ???? Tie to the Audience: ???? Thesis: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) needs to be more strict about allowing certain color additives, having a better outline of labels for companies to follow for their products, and to require companies to inform the consumer of genetically modified foods within a product. First, the Food and Drug Administration should focus on what has inside approved food like unhealthy color additives. The problem is that the FDA wants to please the greedy eyes of the customers with the colors of the food. One of the most widely used color additives comes from an unexpected source (Schlosser and Wilson). This additive is known as carmine, or carminic acid and is made from the bodies of …show more content…
The label outline for companies to use must contain information about the manufacturer, quantity, name of the food and its ingredients, along with nutritional information (“Food Labels and Labeling In The United States”). Sayings like “All Natural” and “Organic” that are placed front and center on a food package are all up to the company. These phrases could affect the buyer's decision to purchase that good, but the problem is that the word “natural’ means nothing to the FDA (“‘Natural’ on Food Labeling”). The FDA has contemplated the term “natural” in human food labeling and concluded it to mean nothing artificial (including all color additives) or synthetic (“‘Natural’ on Food Labeling”). However, almost every single product has something within it that has been processed with something rather than occurring naturally like chemicals (“‘Natural’ on Food Labeling”). In my mind, the FDA doesn’t seem to be doing a very good job of protecting their customers by allowing phrases for companies to use like “All Natural” and “Organic” to trick people into buying their product along with its misleading package (“Does FDA have a definition for the term ‘organic’ on food labels?” and “‘Natural’ on Food