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States right in food fight
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Mar 01, 2006 06:21pm |
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| Category | Editorial |
| News Date | Sunday, February 26, 2006 12:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | DESPITE their professed disdain for "one size fits all" laws, Republicans in Congress are ganging up with potentially dangerous legislation that would require uniform food-labeling regulations in all 50 states.
Such a federal law could be misleading or pose a hazard to consumers, who are now protected by the kind of individual state regulations that, in Michigan, for example, require a warning about possible allergic reactions to sulfites in bulk food. Or an Ohio regulation that forbids the use of the word "honey" on a food label unless the product actually contains honey.
The labeling measure is particularly galling because Republicans traditionally have pushed the concept of states' rights and local control. But the American public has learned in many realms, from public education to the pricing of prescription drugs, that what really counts to the denizens of the White House and the GOP majority that dominates Capitol Hill is the flood of campaign money from friendly industries. |
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