tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3046628493283608233.post8488811755408442522..comments2023-10-29T05:29:58.599-04:00Comments on Right-Side-of-Lowell: Pie Fight?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3046628493283608233.post-32090095185052351052009-07-30T08:29:39.074-04:002009-07-30T08:29:39.074-04:00To me, if the issue is an informed consumer, the r...To me, if the issue is an informed consumer, the restriction on packaging can only be interpreted as anti-competitive. This is why everyone hates Demicans. (Or was that Republicrats?).<br /><br />I'm all for truth in labeling. If we know something is possibly dangerous, we ought to ensure the robber barons aren't secretly killing us and/or our planet with it. Sure, there's a mile between proven killers like asbestos that need to be actively removed from use, and common food elements like trans fats, but there shouldn't be a hesitation to at least let folks know the extent to which they're scarfing down trans fats, high fructose corn syrup, sodium, nitrates and nitrites, etc.<br /><br />Change the present law to simply require notification of the diner, and I'd be happy with it. Go so far as to put commercial burdens on one set of market participants (banana cream pie makers) over another (insert your non-trans-fat dessert of choice here), and that's the worst sort of governmental interference that winds us up with things like the MBTA instead of a functional light rail and bus network.Craig Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09824029248081902170noreply@blogger.com