No, we label country of manufacture, that’s all...
This is insane regulation! EVERY ingredient would need to be identified. Rice grown in Indonesia then refined in Singapore before coming to be used in your boxed rice meal - is that Indonesian or Singapore rice?
Look at the ingredient list of a bottle of pasta sauce, or a box of cereal. There’s 40+ ingredients in there. And you have to list EVERY single source?
How about just tomato sauce? Many companies - like Dole - use tomatoes from their own farms in Mexico, Honduras, Panama, US, and Canada. So how do you label that sauce? All potential countries, only the countries that contributed to that individual can?
This is a really bad idea, not only will labels get 4X as big, but tracking will be insane. And 99% of your consumers will simply ignore the information anyway...
Just a way for Government to get further hooks into the economy, because then they KNOW who to start “penalizing” when they want to play with tariffs or trade war. More control for the Government, less for individuals...
Personally, I'd like to know if the drug I'm taking came from the People's Republic of China. Or for that matter, if my television does.
Americans should be provided the information they need to select the products they use.
Well, this is what you get when you consider a country like Communist China a favored nation for trade.
The ChiComs have no notion of QC on food products, never have, never will. They’re commies. They don’t care how many people die, just so long as they reach their quotas. That’s why they’ll happily put DEG into toothpaste instead of food-quality sweeteners. They’ll put melamine into gluten to raise the protein levels. People think these things are flukes. For people who have studied the history of the ChiCom’s, no, these are not flukes, they’re typical communist behavior.
The difference is that the ramifications of these obsessions of quotas over quality now have the potential to kill us, not some nameless Chinese peasants in some far-flung province of China. Why? Because our food companies seem to be obsessed with providing the cheapest food possible, rather than the most reliable food possible. And even tho we have vast quantities of wheat gluten available in this country, the Walmart obsession that has become the US economy doesn’t care that we have gluten of toothpaste available when there is cheaper crap available from the ChiComs.
So yea, unless we’re going to inject some rational regulations into input regs, we’re going to label every ingredient. And then consumers will be able to conduct themselves in a rational manner than will reward the ChiComs with the economic feedback that will force them to pay attention to quality and safety.