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To: OldDeckHand
Shredded blue cheese separated with finely ground cellulose is OK, but shreaded blue cheese separated with wheat flour is simply poisonous.

Most manufacturers (and all that shredded blue cheese ~ sometimes called 'crumbled" blue cheese is "manufactured") prefer to use the word cellulose rather than specify that wheat is an additive.

That means anyone with a wheat intolerance problem cannot trust shredded blue cheese in packages. That's about 26 million folks and growing ~ seems all that extra protein grown into modern wheat strains has brought tens of millions more people within the reach of the "wheat tolerance" limits.

19 posted on 05/04/2011 1:43:34 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah
"That means anyone with a wheat intolerance problem cannot trust shredded blue cheese in packages."

That's what I'm getting at - Bleu Cheese should not include wheat, and it certainly shouldn't include wheat unless it's boldly disclosed.

I part ways with some of my conservative brethren in this regard - I'm all for full product-disclosure and labeling laws, and too many Republicans who suckle at the teat of the big food lobby, fight against these laws. Transparency is good everywhere - good for the government and good for our food producers, IMHO.

I also think these labeling laws tend to help the little guys, and hurt the big food conglomerates. It's another kind of crony capitalism.

23 posted on 05/04/2011 1:51:15 PM PDT by OldDeckHand
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