I dont think the comment you make is very reasonable @flagamuffin . It comes across as attempting to discredit people for just wanting an honest explanation of what exactly their food is. In this situation, poking fun at ignorance kinda makes you the asshat. There is no common knowledge of food production in this country.

Knowing that, how is it even okay to package and claim an item as food, yet not have any real responsibility to disclose to the consumer exactly wtf is in the package? It doesn't help the cause when those same companies fight against having to label the alleged food.

My stance is that any item sold as food needs to have its place of origin, absolute and explicitly clear list of ingredients, and methods of production on the package, label, etc. All citizens should be educated in currently used methods of producing food as well. I don't see how that's unreasonable for food. I also don't see how it's unreasonable to ask with all of this technology that we work on methods of production which is as close to nature as we can get and still feed the population.