Hermetically Sealed Plastic

So, when did the world become so insanely freshness-crazy or germophobic for someone to determine that what we NEED is WAYYY more wrapping on gum?

I mean, it's GUM. It's mostly plastic to begin with! When I was a kid you bought a pack, and inside, the gum was in a foil paper wrapper.

Then they made the sticks smaller, and that was still ok. But now, you can buy a pack of gum that comes in shrinkwrap plastic around a cardboard sleeve around a foil popout pack. OR a shrinkwrapped plastic around a cardboard suspiciously cigarette-pack looking fold out case that holds individually wrapped pieces. And if you buy these at a bulk wholesaler, you can get a box of individually shrinkwrapped packages, shrinkwrapped together in a box.

WHAT? We ship apples, fresh, wholesome apples all the way from chile and Argentina and South Africa open in big boxes, and we hermetically seal GUM?

WTF is wrong with the world?