{"id":84068,"date":"2026-07-01T09:26:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T13:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=84068"},"modified":"2026-07-01T09:26:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T13:26:47","slug":"how-government-quietly-redefined-what-americans-call-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/how-government-quietly-redefined-what-americans-call-food\/","title":{"rendered":"How Government Quietly Redefined What Americans Call &#8220;Food&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>Malone News:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!wFJA!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6ad69150-d7c3-4aab-8e53-e04fcacd2fe9_1536x1024.png\" width=\"373\" height=\"249\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Walk through any supermarket today and pick up a loaf of bread. Chances are, the ingredient list contains twenty or thirty items. Yogurt often includes gums, stabilizers, modified starches, emulsifiers, flavor systems, and preservatives. Salad dressing reads like a chemistry experiment. Ice cream may contain ingredients your grandmother never heard of, much less kept in her pantry.<\/p>\n<p>We have become so accustomed to these long ingredient labels that we rarely stop to ask a very simple question.\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Who decided this was normal?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Malone News: Walk through any supermarket today and pick up a loaf of bread. Chances are, the ingredient list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84068","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84069,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84068\/revisions\/84069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}