Nutritional labels on packaged foods have their roots in governments’ efforts to deal constructively with the public outrage that followed the publication of Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle. Governments today should respond to public outrage at financial institutions by requiring similar labeling for investment products.
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NEW HAVEN – Those labels that you see on packaged foods listing their ingredients and nutritional values had their beginnings in an international scandal and in the efforts by governments to deal constructively with the public outrage that followed.