Still doesn't tell you if somebody shit on your lettuce or not.

I just assume that if it is not bought locally then it was shit on.

"Cooked and processed foods are exempt."

Well then that is pretty useless.

I guess it's a start.

I try and buy local whenever I can but in the winter months that's fairly hard to do.

Still doesn't tell you if somebody shit on your lettuce or not.

#1 | Posted by Lipzoidal

All our food gets shit on.

Whether its by people or rats is another story.

Mexican salmanello is just here doing the work that American salmanello is too lazy to do.

WHAA!
If we label food, families may not buy cheap/unsafe food and thus hurt the economy and all those generous guys up on WS!
See, just like amusement parks, part of the thrill is paying thru the nose for the element of danger!

Why do Libruls Hate America

Sincerely

The Party of Family Values

There are so many loopholes in this law it's borderline useless.

Loopholes or not, it's a start. After 200 more people die of poisoning from metal in their food, maybe then they'll legislate to close the loopholes.

because i'm designated shopper at our house, i do look at the labels for origin - especially after the chinese did their damndest to off our pets!

After 200 more people die of poisoning from metal in their food, maybe then they'll legislate to close the loopholes.

#10 | Posted by Scrumplet

Hundreds have died from preventable ecoli from meat processing plants and nothing was done. Why will this be any different.

It's considered acceptable risk on evaluation of the cost/benefit analysis.

What's really interesting is to read Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, which is an expose of the meat-packing industry circa 1906. Then read Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation, published 95 years later in 2001.

Despite the existence (and heavy taxpayer funding) of the Food and Drug Administration, founded as a result of the public outcry following Sinclair's work, Schlosser's book reads like The Jungle redux. Very much the same conditions and abuses exist today as existed then, and the melamine deaths originating from China, along with the problems with Mexican jalapenos show that Big Business has added a few more.

I don't know what it's going to take to get an F.D.A. with a pair of balls and the willingness to use them, but if we're going to permit offshore sourcing of food, then we are going to have to rachet up both vigilance and penalties. I personally think that U.S. brass of food companies that get caught up in offshore food supply problems should be imprisoned, as people who could be reasonably expected to demand - and pay for - safe food supplies, and didn't meet that expectation.

Do the tainted Snickers, M&MS and Oreos from China get a pass? WTF use is that?

Another toothless law put in place for show.

Melamine isn't going to show up in brussel sprouts. It's going to show up in PROCESSED AND COOKED FOODS.

The thought of offshore food sourcing scares to poop outta me. And yes, that poop will wind up on some lettuce.

The Hulkster knows that this is a step in the right direction. More needs to be done to protect us, brother!

HULKAMANIA FOREVER!

13 | Posted by MaryTylerWhore

Fast Food Nation. Good book.

It's about time we, the consumer, got this law.

I don't know what it's going to take to get an F.D.A. with a pair of balls and the willingness to use them,

#13 | Posted by MaryTylerWhore at 2008-10-02 12:01 PM | Reply | Flag:

It's not the FDA's fault. Bush guts the Agency and their budget and leaves them so short-handed that they can't get the job done and when these outbreaks occur, Bush shrugs his shoulders and points to the FDA, asking 'why do we need them'?

More labels from Mexico, Central America etc.....

Cars really need this too in ALL cases. The Chevy HHR is also a product of MEXICO!

"especially after the chinese did their damndest to off our pets!

#11 | Posted by nanc"

Who knew Purina was a Chinese company?

Cars really need this too in ALL cases. The Chevy HHR is also a product of MEXICO!

#19 | Posted by Unclesam at 2008-10-02 02:47 PM | Reply | Flag:

Cars already do have these. They have a percentage of parts breakdown by country and where final assembly took place right on the sticker.

This may not be a law (I'm not sure) but I have seen these when I go car shopping.

I just assume that if it is not bought locally then it was shit on.

#2 | Posted by 726 at 2008-10-02 09:43 AM | Reply

EVERYTHING is bought locally, you retard. Fly to Thailand, order a pizza, and it's still purchased locally.

Perhaps you like the fantasy of the local 'farmer's market' where local people (non farmers) buy veggies from the local wholesaler and sell them to you. Same stuff you buy at Safeway, from the same wholesaler.

It's just marketing, you fool; if it were really a farmer's market, why do they have tomatoes in February?

D'oh!

"EVERYTHING is bought locally, you retard. Fly to Thailand, order a pizza, and it's still purchased locally"

So those cookies from Honolulu I ordered on the Internet I actually bought....locally? But where are the palm trees and Hula girls?