Effort to Revive Food Labeling Law

[Purveyor]

Source: Associated Press

Saturday, July 14, 2007

(07-14) 10:11 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) --

Shoppers are in the dark about where much of their food comes from despite a five-year-old law requiring meat and other products to carry labels with their country of origin.

That soon may change. Reports of tainted seafood from China has raised consumer awareness about the safety of imported food and many of the law's most powerful opponents have left Congress.

"The political dynamic is such that there's just no getting around it," said Colin Woodall, director of legislative affairs for the National Cattlemen's Beef Association. The livestock group has opposed a mandatory labeling program.

The Agriculture Department never put in place the labeling requirement because then-majority Republicans repeatedly delayed it, most recently to 2008.




Read more: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/07/14/national/w095456D31.DTL

[sam sarrha]

1. Label everything that is from china.. or from anywhere in the Global Economic disaster

[Divine Discontent]

2. sounds good to me!

I just bought two cans of fruit, and flipped them to the back after getting home to see serving size, and in little letters, "Made In China" was somewhere on the back....

no thanks!

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[Purveyor]

3. Make sure your representatives in DC hear from you in support of labeling while it has momentum. n/t

[lovuian]

4. China trade is Poison trade They are systematically

poisoning everybody and the funny part is we pay them to do it

Its NWO agenda

[Akoto]

5. I think all food should be labeled with place of origin, China or otherwise.

We have a right to know where things we buy are coming from, particularly when we're swallowing them.

[Doremus]

6. K&R n/t

:kick:

[candice]

7. We need country of origin labeling (COOL) for all foods...

contact your representative. It will be beneficial for some countries and harmful to those that haven't shown the ability to export safe food.

Ask for more funding for the FDA as well. Because their budget has been gutted, it is every person on his/her own in terms of food safety. Read "What to Eat" by Marion Nestle to get better informed.

[susanna]

8. I completely agree with labeling food origins...

...but not necessarily because of safety concerns, though certainly that is important.

Actually, one of the most amazing things to me here and elsewhere is people's environmental priorities. Everyone spouts a super-green line; we actively despise automotive companies for wasting fuel. Yet we, consumers, buy foods that are shipped thousands of miles every single day. That shipping requires a lot of fuel, but nary a word is said about that problem.

I'd love to see those point-of-origin labels on foods. I'd buy something from NY (I'm in MI) before I'd buy something from China or Columbia or Venezuela...and theoretically, if enough people did that, fuel consumed by shipping food would decrease. That's an environmental gain, right?

[conspirator]

9. I am skeptic. Even with labels, you still need inspectors, the same

inspectors that are not doing their job properly at the moment, the same inspectores that can be bought by corporations
to close their eyes. Who will guarantee that the labels are accurate?