I guarantee that corporations would simply start adding more cheap fillers to food if they were forced to comply with standardized size/weight requirements.
You’d get saline solution being injected into moisture rich foods, to increase their perceived weight, you’d have dry foods combined with super cheap fillers to give them more weight (but less actual food), etc.
You kind of already have that. I’m pretty sure that the mass of anything in the grocery store includes the maximum amount of allowed cheap mass.
Standardised packaging sizes would just reduce wastage from inconvenient package sizes and streamline packaging operations. Remember the giant plastic clamshell packaging of 10-15 years ago? Takes up more space on the shelves, can make a small product noticable, and was annoying as hell and wasteful too.
I guarantee that corporations would simply start adding more cheap fillers to food if they were forced to comply with standardized size/weight requirements.
You’d get saline solution being injected into moisture rich foods, to increase their perceived weight, you’d have dry foods combined with super cheap fillers to give them more weight (but less actual food), etc.
Consumers are always the loser.
They already do that. Regulate that too.
You kind of already have that. I’m pretty sure that the mass of anything in the grocery store includes the maximum amount of allowed cheap mass.
Standardised packaging sizes would just reduce wastage from inconvenient package sizes and streamline packaging operations. Remember the giant plastic clamshell packaging of 10-15 years ago? Takes up more space on the shelves, can make a small product noticable, and was annoying as hell and wasteful too.