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April 01, 2004
Commissioner for Xenophobia
Ag commissioner wants stores to label foreign produce
The Alabama Agriculture commissioner wants to force stores to label all foreign produce. He says that this is so that if someone gets sick, they can trace the produce. There are a couple of problems with this. The first is that the boxes at the store are already labeled, so the store knows where the produce they sold comes from. The second is that if he was really concerned, he'd want domestic produce labelled by point of origin as well. Since he doesn't, I think we know what this is really about.
Posted by Mac Thomason at April 1, 2004 11:06 AM
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I'd want to know what is produced oevrseas, too, so I can buy it specifically for that reason :)
Posted by: Green Baron at April 1, 2004 04:50 PM