"A.T. Hagan" wrote:
>
> On 27 Oct 2003 14:30:52 -0800, (butch burton)
> wrote:
>
> >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
>
> How that number does grow. I've heard or read four different stories
> about this so far and the numbers range from the low hundred millions
> to this four billion figure. Much phog coming out here I do believe.
>
> Personally, I want to see country of origin labeling. Could be a real
> shock to a lot of people where much of our food comes from.
>
> With the exception of foods that we may not produce of high quality in
> the U.S. I prefer to buy American grown/produced food when I can.
>
> .....Alan.
>

Precisely! When I was living in the UK I was allowed to make those
choices because I had that information. It was easy to avoid foods
produced under conditions that weren't acceptable to me.