A moment of progress in a system built to resist it.
Kraft Heinz just announced it will eliminate synthetic dyes from all U.S. products by 2027. It’s a move decades overdue, but still worth celebrating because it signals what’s possible when public pressure, policy momentum, and corporate accountability collide.
As I wrote in Food Fix: what we eat and how our food is grown, manufactured, marketed, and subsidized, touches everything that matters:
• Our health.
• Our economy.
• Our children’s brains.
• Our environment.
• And our very future as a species.
We have normalized the use of chemicals like Red 40 and Yellow 5 dyes: additives that are banned or restricted in many other countries, but still in our everyday products for children. Big Food prioritized profit over safety, while the government looked the other way. The FDA failed to protect us. The Farm Bill subsidized disease. And food industry lobbyists wrote the rules.
A real Food Fix requires more than a dye-free Jell-O.
It requires:
– Transparent labeling.
– Ending subsidies for disease-causing ingredients.
– Incentivizing fruits, vegetables, and regenerative agriculture.
– Holding corporations accountable for the harm they’ve caused.
Because food is the nexus of nearly every major crisis we face today: health, climate, economic inequality, mental illness, and more. And if we want to fix our broken systems, we have to start with fixing food.
Let’s keep going. Who’s next?
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