"Food-Labeling Effort Gains New Momentum"

[GreenPartyVoter]

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 have 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.

http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20070716/D8QDM4E80.html

[Big Blue Marble]

1. It will more likely happen now,

because US food producers will want the competitive advantage. If that
is what it takes to make it happen, then bring it on.

[SpiralHawk]

2. Label the genetially mutant so-called food-product crapola, too

People who want mutant food should be able to identify it.

People who want to avoid mutant food should be able to avoid it.

I know this basic principle of free will and free choice runs counter to the fascist notions of republicon corporatism, but it is a fundamental human right to be able to make informed choices.

[kestrel91316]

3. At my local Ralph's supermarket the other day I spotted fresh halibut and

fresh wildcaught sockeye salmon, both with big prominent labels on the saran wrap that said "Product of USA".

They have huge freezer cabinets full of imported Asian fish and shrimp that was just sitting there. They may have trouble moving it. People aren't stupid.