Posted on 08/18/2015 3:19:34 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The first clue that Gwyneth Paltrow didn’t know what she was talking about on Capitol Hill earlier this month came with the first words she spoke: “I’m here as a mother.”
Apparently, the actress thinks that any mom can show up in Washington and hold a press conference that attracts lawmakers and the media.
Memo to Ms. Paltrow: The rest of us moms don’t have that celebrity power. We haven’t won Oscar awards, assumed glamorous roles in the “Iron Man” movies, or married (let alone divorced) rock stars.
But Ms. Paltrow has done all of these things so, of course, everyone needs to know what she thinks about pending legislation on food-packaging labels. You know, because she’s a regular mom.
Well, I’m a mom and a farmer — so I like to think that I know a little bit about raising kids, crops and dairy cows. And I’m convinced that Ms. Paltrow is completely wrong about food.
She has let herself become a tool for special-interest groups that oppose the Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act, which the House passed in July with significant bipartisan support. This sensible bill would prevent states from forcing food producers to put costly and ineffective labels on food that contains genetically modified (GM) ingredients.
“I have the right to know what’s in the food that I feed my family,” said Ms. Paltrow.
True enough; no one is arguing that you don’t have the “right,” except, of course, the group she represented that day in Washington. That’s why packages of food already display information about calories, nutrients and ingredients. Anybody who wants to avoid GM foods enjoys a few good options, including organic food, which doesn’t contain GM ingredients and already carries a special label.
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And I’m convinced that Ms. Paltrow is completely wrong about food.
SHe has been completely wrong on just about everything she has ever bothered to stick her fat ass in.
Cookbook. That’s what it was. She got some pretty scathing reviews from what I remember.
It was a disaster! I knew it would be because, despite her miserable father, she came from a Waspy upbringing where brownies were considered outré.
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