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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
In other words give _more_ authority to the bureaucrats who already have too much. We're is my USG representation in all of this?

For food: GMO should be labeled, country of origin should be labeled. Congress should require it, not had it to agencies. There are too many agencies and agents creating rules with the effect of law.

9 posted on 04/10/2014 1:08:23 PM PDT by veracious
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To: veracious
No. We should label things that involve a demonstrated risk above a reasonable threshold. That, of course, can get tricky.

Organic foods, for example, arguably should be labelled as hazardous because they are approximately 100 times more likely to send you to the hospital than conventionally grown foods, mainly because of higher incidence of fecal material, e coli, insect parts, etc., but the incidence of risk is still de minimus, so unless you have an animus against organics, live and let live is a reasonable policy.

Conventional foods are orders of magnitude safer, so there is no reason to label them.

15 posted on 04/10/2014 2:10:26 PM PDT by sphinx
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