One of the perks that comes with living in a blue state is the amount of information I’m provided prior to purchasing food for my family. Generally I try to steer clear of products heavy with preservatives, use fresh ingredients whenever I can and always go with fish caught at sea rather than grown in a farm. One Discovery Channel documentary on farmed seafood would convince anyone reading this to do the same, but hey, it’s only what we’re putting into our body, so what’s the big deal, right?
States determine what information must be provided to consumers, but with WalMart having become the nation’s top grocery seller and a Congress more apt to operate as an extension of the market than respresentative of the people, the lobbists have finally managed to get legislation in the works to strip the states of this right:
Oh, the poor food producers. Forget about someone like me who actually takes the time and purchases certain good based on where it comes from or how it’s made, consumers are there for the corporations, not the other way around! That’s the message if this bill passes, and from then on when I go to the store to buy haddock, shrimp or salmon, it’ll be a spin at the roulette wheel as to whether or not the fish lived out it’s life surrounded by it’s own waste and that of the other 50 abominations it’s lived a cramped life amongst.
Republicans, this is what they’re all about unfortunately. Watch this thing pass with flying colors, and then we’ll have politicians and food-sponsored reports from think tanks all saying that farmed seafood pumped with steroids is just as good as what you’ll find in the ocean. Like global warming, many many idiots across the country will see someone of authority, wearing their team jersey, telling them that it’s all a ‘hoax’. Soon, if you doubt the methods of the food America produces, you’re unpatriotic.
Dear Rush Limbaugh…I mean Chris:
Is it possible for you to talk about an issue without making it GOP versus Dems…is that ever possible for you? You sound like Limbaugh only from the other side.
OH, I’m sorry…let me rephrase this entire thing, because when we had Clinton/Gore, corporate food producers got whatever they wanted. Indeed, this is something both parties have wrong…
That’s what you want to hear, but logic doesn’t allow such a farce on this issue.
California, Massachusetts…two states I’ve lived in during my life, both dictate to the food industry what they must put on the table up front in terms of the labeling. Because of that, I feel safe purchasing seafood at any local grocer. Remove that label, and I no longer have a choice.
Pollutants are one part of this, but worse than that in my opinion is the conditions this future food grows up in before it’s baged, taged and sold to the butcher in the store. Some cows are fed the remains of other slaughtered cows, some fish are raised in a cramped environment where they are pumped with steroids and swim in the waste of their roomates their entire life, and of course chickens can carry diseases as well.
Knowing where the fish I ate last night was caught is important to me. Obviously with the mass quantities of fast food, energy drinks and preservative packed sugar food we shovel into our mouthes per capita, whether or not your haddock lived most of it’s life gills full of dookie is the least of their concern.
So here we have a bill that caters to the uninformed at the expense of people like me.
Who’s in charge of DC right now? Washington, calling something what it is…I know it’s not what a moderate bullshit artist politician would do in most cases, but of course, I’m not running for reelection anytime soon.
I like my Mickey D’s burgers thank you !! I don’t care if Republicans or Democrats make them !
That rant was very impressive and the parts where you stayed long enough to explain a position were interesting.
Paul:
Have you seen supersize me? It is pretty hard to eat Mc D’s after that.