Posted on 08/21/2015 11:25:46 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Sometimes government’s dishonesty, incompetence, wastefulness, and misguided nannyism combine to make a perfectly ridiculous story. Today’s comes to us from Florida, where the Ocheesee Creamery is being forced to dump gallons upon gallons of good, natural skim milk because the state is requiring the business to label its good, natural skim milk “imitation” because they haven’t added anything to it.
Paul and Mary Lou Wesselhoeft have been fighting this in federal court with the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Affairs, which had formerly allowed them to sell their skim milk while calling it skim milk. No one seemed confused by this except the state government, which changed its requirements.
The Institute for Justice is helping the Wesselhoefts take on the state, arguing they should not be prohibited from telling the truth about their product.
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Florida - The Billy Carter of the United States.
So, can anyone tell me how much lobbying big business did to have the skim milk rule changed.
Nanny State PING!
This is from the government that now allows products like “Non-fat Ice Cream”.
Is it any wonder it has no idea of what marriage is?
Well, Florida is the government running this disaster, not the USDA, which caused a meat-processor farther down in the story to shut down.
95% of all politicians are a complete discredit to the human race
Florida: the dangling wang of the United States.
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Your number is too low. :-)
This is hideous. Government is destroying freedom and liberty everywhere.
Although confusing, I think the gov’t has a reasonable point:
Americans don’t realize that skimming milk removes the vitamins. Typically, milk processors add the vitamins they remove right back in. These people do not. Hence, the government doesn’t want them to call it milk, and therefore not skim milk.
A “reasonable” solution would be for the government to say, “fine, you can call it skim milk. But you also have to put a warning label which says you’ve removed vitamins without replacing them.”
>>95% of all politicians are a complete discredit to the human race<<
And the rest are incomplete.
Yeah I got swindled a few weeks back when I bought “Non-fat Half & Half” that was misleadingly labelled. Silly me, I assumed there was no such thing, since one of the “halves” is cream! Now I am careful to look for the fine print.
I see... “milk” has been redefined to be not pure milk, but adulterated milk.
Similar things are happening with citizenship.
The remaining 5% are partial discredits to the human race.
My favorite is “Fat Free Half & Half”
What’s the freak’n point
“A “reasonable” solution would be for the government to say, “fine, you can call it skim milk. But you also have to put a warning label which says you’ve removed vitamins without replacing them.””
Yeah, that seems reasonable, but the government seems to have rejected an offer like that.
Another reasonable solution would be to let these people call their product “skim milk” and have the other producers call their product “Vitamin A fortified skim milk”. That would be the most accurate labeling, I think.
A reasonable solution would be to get the government out of private transactions. Caveat emptor has worked for thousands of years.
Government is destroying freedom and liberty everywhere.
That IS the job of government...
More government...Less freedom and liberty.
In the end there will only be government and millions upon millions will die.
Strangely enough, the Federal rules seem to take this approach - if you add vitamins to milk (including Vitamin A), you need to label it as such. Not sure what Florida thinks its doing here...
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