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To: Will88
So let me get this straight. You think that the Federal Government forcing, at the point of a gun, every single food producer on in America to label food the way some idiots at the Dept. of Agriculture demand isn't Big Brotherism?

Man do you have a screwed up idea of things.

Let's think about this option for a tick, shall we? How about we let the consumer decide if they want to purchase unlabeled food products or not. Why that almost be like...oh...let me think for a minute...I have it! Letting people make up their own minds with their own dollars!

Wow..that would be like...Liberty or something.

7 posted on 01/21/2012 4:20:18 PM PST by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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To: Lurker

Lol, you not only support Big Brotherism, you are also anti-free market. One of the requirements for a free market is that buyers and sellers have knowledge as to product and price.

Producers of food know full well what raw materials they are using and where they came from and labeling has been part of selling products in the US for decades. Some producers fight GMO labeling and country of origin labeling on some products because they know some consumers will decline to purchase their products if that information is provided.

Freedom and free markets are a two way street, and buyers have a right to know what they are buying. That has long been recognized, and often fought by sellers who don’t want to provide the information.


8 posted on 01/21/2012 4:33:22 PM PST by Will88
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