It is not. How much taxpayer money should be wasted detecting grapefruit juice in juice labeled orange juice? How much taxpayer money should be spent regulating trans fats? Should they measure whether food was cooked in sunflower oil or sesame which is healthier uncooked but can burn when used for cooking? The bureaucrats you want to empower are excellent at splitting meaningless hairs while rubber stamping complete crap like the pet food.
The seller at a local farmers market is going to be shut down by the government gestapo long before any meaningful regulations of large food producers. I'll buy my canned goods from a guy I trust who did it himself, and I don't want to pay for your nanny govt to tell me that I can't. I suggest you subscribe to a private service that checks your food, or do some research yourself before you shop rather than force me to pay for your government bureaucrats
>> It *is* a legitimate function of the government to set basic First World hygiene standards and mandate labeling for food and water so that we can know the truth about what we purchase, that it is represented accurately by the seller.
>It is not. How much taxpayer money should be wasted detecting grapefruit juice in juice labeled orange juice?
None. How about detecting pesticides in the OJ? That OK with you to enter the market without your knowledge? I guess if the govt. can’t do anything about food, nobody will detect it, because the OJ company with the unsafe factories in Mexico won’t tell you.
>How much taxpayer money should be spent regulating trans fats?
None. Gee, this is easy!
>Should they measure whether food was cooked in sunflower oil or sesame which is healthier uncooked but can burn when used for cooking?
None. Yawn.
>The bureaucrats you want to empower are excellent at splitting meaningless hairs while rubber stamping complete crap like the pet food.
Then the problem is not the mission, but with the crooks helming the agency.
From Wellness Website:
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We do not purchase any of our ingredients from the supplier in China involved in the recalls. We source from three plants in ASIA, all of which our employees have personally visited in order to qualify them as Wellness vendors.
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We do not use wheat gluten in our products, and none of our products are made in the Menu Foods Emporia plant that is the main focus of the product recall.
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~Wellness responses to consumers:
WELLNESS states: :
“While we do have some of our products made at Menu Foods, we do not use the specific ingredient that has caused the recall to take place.”
~snip~
Cross contamination:
Menu Foods says it’s expanding the recall to include products that do not include ChemNutra wheat gluten, but were made at Menu Foods plants during the period the ingredient was used there.
Example of premium foods affected
(No china/asian swill here?):
Natural Balance
Blue Buffalo
Doctors Foster & Smith
Royal Canin
And on,
and on,
and on.
Be Safe Not Sorry.
I use that fancy food you are touting but am not going to be surprised when/if it is also “voluntarily” recalled.