Sadly, having 1 good idea <removing food dye> doesn’t outweigh having 10 horrible and harmful ideas.

That idea (removing unnecessary/possibly carcinigous additives and chemicals from our food supply) is not even an original idea. There have been healthy food advocates for as long as I can remember screaming bloody murder about unnecessary, even dangerous dyes, and possibly carcinogenic additives in our food supply.

Health advocates are no match for the lobbyists, the libertarians of the food and beverage and tobacco industries who scream bloody murder if their right to sell crap is threatened.

I have a libertarian friend who feels everything we consume should be 'caveat emptor' with respect to all ingredients, quality control inspections, etc. If something is wrong, he believes somehow enough people will know, stop buying the product, perhaps sue the merchant or manufacturer, and the bad merchant will go broke, so no merchant will do bad shit because it'll lose it's market or get sued into non-existence.

I ask him how that helps the people who are poisoned today. He hasn't quite figgered that one out yet.