Interesting article in NYT saying the cost of the new mandatory food
labels will cost an additional $4 billion-applies to meat, fish, some
veggies and peanuts. Food is a tiny part of my living expense but to
some lower income large families, it is a very significant part of
their living expenses and here we go raising their food cost. Yeah it
would be nice to know my beef brisket came from a cow raised in Keokuk
IA, processed in Ames IA and so forth but at the cost of $ 4
billion-wow we could build 400 really snazzy schools (@ $10 million
each) for $ 4 Billion-now wonder which would do more good.

For those who subscribe (it's free) to the NYT-great food colums-here
is the article's address.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/nati...od-Labels.html