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September 13, 2003
Labelling restrictions
A large milk producing company named Monsanto is sueing a smaller dairy for printing on their labels that their products are free of artificial growth hormones. They suggest that this misleads consumers into believing that milk treated with those hormones are unsafe. This is completely absurd whether you agree with that claim or not. Why should I, as a consumer, not be able to obtain as much information as possible about a product and make my own decision? Are they proposing that all information related to this also be removed from their website? Where does this end? Can politicians sue each other because information others presented painted them in an unpleasant light?
http://business.mainetoday.com/news/030820labels.shtml
http://www.non-gm-farmers.com/news_details.asp?ID=542
Posted by nthier at September 13, 2003 05:10 AM