Murthy argues in his advisory, noting alcohol consumption is to blame for nearly one million preventable cancer cases in the U.S. over the last decade. About 20,000 people die every year from those alcohol-related cancer cases
They expect people who are drinking enough to get cancer from it to be so into the health food craze to be scared of that? You could eat like 2 fewer hot pockets per year and it would do as much good. Most of these people probably smoke, which is where you've actively made a decision that you're okay with getting cancer.
The hypocrisy of this is just astounding. We put warning labels on alcohol products about stuff that everyone knows (you might actually be worse at driving! 
) but for some reason reason out of all food and drink, booze has an exception for nutritional information. Why? When did this start? What possible justification is there for this? Why in the frick would you print any kind of warning on it if you won't even just tell women it's going to make them fat? Why do we go through this charade of pretending the government in Elliot Ness when there's tax incentives for the wine industry, the beer industry, the weed industry, the mushroom industry. Extreme taxes on the tobacco industry because I guess they were actually the ones really hurting people.
The Surgeon General's office has not replied to MNN's request for comments.
Also BTW am I literally the first fricking person in America who ever noticed this? I have never in my entire life ever heard anyone notice that alcohol makes your product less regulated.
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Huge pet peeve of mine and I'm equally flabbergasted. We have 10 trillion regulations on everything but, somehow, knowing the nutritional content of beverages that a hundred million Americans consume regularly is a step too far? We can ban trans fat and other stuff and dictate to people what they're allowed to consume or not. But merely being informed about what ingredients are in alcohol is apparently a government overreach. And like you said, I would normally be entitled to know, but the second alcohol is added to something, it becomes a big secret. What the frick is this nonsense?
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It's just the one ingredient dumbass.
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It might hurt the poor local brewers, and wineries, and Constellation, and AB Inbev...
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Well, like with everything else, they can carve out exceptions for establishments with less than 5 locations or however that shit goes. That's how calorie reporting laws work, as I recall. There could be an equivalent for breweries if they make under x thousand gallons annually or whatever is reasonable. But, it's a dumb copout anyways, because they know what ingredients they are making their own products with, right? So, literally just list the ingredients and then take 5 seconds to calculate the sugar grams and so forth.
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It's not quite that simple because a lot of the stuff in beer is off gassed during fermentation but there's literally a calculator for the calories:
https://homebrewacademy.com/beer-calories-calculator/
You don't even need to carve out exceptions for small breweries, even a homebrewer can figure out how many calories are in their beer.
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Neighbor wtf is an og
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Anyone who's actually brewing knows what original gravity is and everyone else can fricking Google it.
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9.8 m/s^2
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Seems gay, so no
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I'm a booze enjoyer, but I think a big reason is we all enjoy alcohol and genuinely do not want to be confronted with how bad it actually is for us
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Korea
has european 
levels of alcoholism 
despite 
50% of the population having alcohol 
intolerance. 
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100 calories a shot
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Yes
I don't want to know how much the 10.5% stout is killing me
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