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I know most regulars here are concerned about proper labeling so act or not
as you wish.


OPPOSE H.R. 4167, THE NATIONAL UNIFORMITY FOR FOOD ACT

ACTION PAGE: http://www.nocrony.com/food_safety.php

Just in case you weren't sick and tired enough of corporate special
interests writing word for word every piece of legislation passed by our
corrupt Congress, along comes the so-called "National Uniformity for Food
Act", H.R. 4167.

What it would actually "uniformly" do is gut every existing state regulation
on food safety and labeling. They want to make it ILLEGAL to put more
consumer information on our food than permitted by a new "look the other
way" federal standard.

There is a vote scheduled in the House for Thursday, March 2. If passed by
the usual gang of arm-twisting vote holder openers, H.R. 4167 would make it
impossible for we the consumers to monitor the infiltration of our food
supply by a witches' brew of genetically butchered organisms, pesticide and
mercury residues, irradiation, and synthetic hormones. With an
administration based on government secrecy run amok, they literally want to
turn the pollution of our food by unnatural additives into classified
information. Why do the corporate biotech giants pushing this bill not want
us to know what they are putting in our food? What are they afraid we might
do . . . not eat it?

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"FOB" wrote in message
. net...
I know most regulars here are concerned about proper labeling so act or not
as you wish.


OPPOSE H.R. 4167, THE NATIONAL UNIFORMITY FOR FOOD ACT

ACTION PAGE: http://www.nocrony.com/food_safety.php

Just in case you weren't sick and tired enough of corporate special
interests writing word for word every piece of legislation passed by our
corrupt Congress, along comes the so-called "National Uniformity for Food
Act", H.R. 4167.

Thanks for this, FOB. And yeah, this has been an ongoing effort on the part
of food producers and manufacturers. Don't allow the competitors to include
anything on their labels that might distinguish their superior product from
your inferior one. Such as labeling of milk products re hormone or
antibiotic use. Or plant products re GMO use.

Fortunately we do have the organic food labeling that helps distinguish good
from bad in terms of many of these kinds of issues. Passage of such bills
tends to make labeled organic food more attractive to consumers. But also
adds to the cost.

Basically more self-serving, unethical behavior on the part of big ag. About
what you'd expect.

HG

FOB wrote:
:: That's not a chain email, it's a subscribed to mail from a public
:: interest group. And there is indeed such a Bill presently pending
:: before the House,
:: http://www.neha.org/position_papers/positionHR4167.htm
::
:: Available in PDF:
:: http://www.cbo.gov/showdoc.cfm?index=7050&sequence=0

I saw a report on this on msn website, video section.

On Sat, 4 Mar 2006 17:16:56 -0800, "Brandon Berg"
wrote:

The bill is real--you can look it up at thomas.loc.gov--but the e-mail lies
about what it would really do. It doesn't really "make it ILLEGAL to put
more consumer information on our food," "make it impossible for we the
consumers to monitor the infiltration of our food supply," or "turn the
pollution of our food by unnatural additives into classified information."

All it would do is make it illegal for states to ban the sale of food whose
labeling conforms to Federal standards. It does not in any way limit the
rights of producers to put whatever truthful information they want on their
labels, nor does it make it illegal for other parties, including the states,
to spread truthful information about questionable ingredients in foods. And
it doesn't permit producers to lie about the ingredients in their products.

Thank you for that information, Brandon. That makes a lot more sense.
And is less alarming, of course. It actually would make it really
difficult for food packagers if each state was able to establish its
own, ideosyncratic set of requirements for labeling. With this,
consumers can simply express their preference for more, rather than
less, information by choosing products whose labeling is more
complete. Knda like we do now. Not ideal, but probably as good as
we're gonna get.

HG

On Sat, 4 Mar 2006 17:16:56 -0800 in alt.support.diet.low-carb,
"Brandon Berg" wrote,
And it doesn't permit producers to lie about the ingredients
in their products.

But actually, some of these laws do permit exactly that. A classic
example is "0 grams" when in fact the quantity in question is a
substantial fraction of a gram.

David Harmon wrote:
:: On Sat, 4 Mar 2006 17:16:56 -0800 in alt.support.diet.low-carb,
:: "Brandon Berg" wrote,
::: And it doesn't permit producers to lie about the ingredients
::: in their products.
::
:: But actually, some of these laws do permit exactly that. A classic
:: example is "0 grams" when in fact the quantity in question is a
:: substantial fraction of a gram.

Not only that, but who really checks claims about label info? I've seem so
many examples of lying labels that it's not funny.

We'd do better to leave laws alone and actually put some force behind the
ones we have.

On Wed, 8 Mar 2006 12:39:14 -0500, "Roger Zoul"
wrote:

We'd do better to leave laws alone and actually put some force behind the
ones we have.


Well, yeah. We could say that about most things, not just labeling...
lol.

HG