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To: Monkey Face

Well, that might be true for you, but there are lots of people who would like to know what's in the stuff they eat, even at restaurants.

Again, I'm not saying that we need a law--market forces have done a nice job of forcing restaurants to publish this information anyhow--but I'd like to see the holdouts step up to the plate and let people know the information so they can make an informed choice. After all, isn't the idea of a free marketplace predicated on each party having perfect information?


50 posted on 02/27/2007 2:01:08 PM PST by Publius Valerius
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To: Publius Valerius

OK. I'll make you a deal: When you get all the nutritional information in all the places you want it, you read it twice ~~ once for you and once for me.

I'll just sit in a corner, eating my thick juicy steak, none the wiser. That way, we can both get what we want. Deal?


54 posted on 02/27/2007 2:08:09 PM PST by Monkey Face (Never understimate the power of stupid people in large groups. [Congress is in session.])
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To: Publius Valerius
...let people know the information so they can make an informed choice...

If you care so much about reducing your meal to a formula then you're free to carry around a reference manual for foods and pull out your calculator at the table. But I don't care to have them take my steak and send it out to the lab, wait a couple weeks for the results, then staple a label to it before they bring it out.

Sort of ruins the ambiance. :-)

67 posted on 02/27/2007 2:44:36 PM PST by Ramius ([sip])
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To: Publius Valerius
After all, isn't the idea of a free marketplace predicated on each party having perfect information?

No. Nobody has perfect information.

A free marketplace means no one forces anyone to buy from or not buy from anyone else.

90 posted on 02/27/2007 3:13:37 PM PST by secretagent
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