House votes to strip food warning labels, overturn up to 200 safety laws

[deacon]

More outrageous antics from the worst congress ever.....


WASHINGTON - The House voted Wednesday to strip many warnings from food labels, potentially affecting alerts about arsenic in bottled water, lead in candy and allergy-causing sulfites, among others.

“This bill is going to overturn 200 state laws that protect our food supply,” said Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif. “Why are we doing that?


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11734532/

[rman]

1. lemme guess, Dems are again voting on legislation

that they haven't read.

[radfringe]

2. briefly blurbed

in a news report on this - it was quickly mentioned that alot of food industry lobbyists are tied to congress on this one

no specific names were mentioned - just a quick "blurb by" - if you weren't paying real close attention you would have missed it

enny-whoo - no big surprise that corporations/lobbyists continue to write/dictate legislation and congress sits there dutifully with steno pad in hand

[Joyce]

3. Can we stop this in the Senate or

is it a "done deal" upon passage in the House? This horrifies me. There is not justification for this bill. It was one of the most blatant examples of abuse of power by the corporatocracy!

[cornermouse]

4. Third world countries typically don't bother with warning labels

on their food and since we're working so hard to join them, it follows that we shouldn't have warning labels either. Another assessment is that since the FDA has switched their focus from protecting the consumer (us) to protecting the manufacturer or importer (them), I'm not really sure what effect this has except to make the new unofficial policy...well, official.

[Daphne08]

5. When has THIS Congress done anything to help consumers?

[file83]

7. What is stupid about this is that the consumers PAY for the labels

so it's not like we are now going to start SAVING money now - it's only going to increase the profits of the corporations. Go organic. Now.

[deacon]

10. They don't do anything for the people--only for their own back pockets

They do nothing good.

[file83]

6. I wonder what they are going to start putting into their products

that will make them more money. Time to go organic!

[kurth]

8. This should be mentioned in every fall campaign commercial

This Republican Congress is the most anti-consumer Congress ever. Not to mention anti-American.

[deacon]

11. Absolutely, this stuff slips under the MSM and these are critical changes

these bums are making....

They public needs to be reminded of specics constantly like this all through the campaigns.

[sutz12]

9. And to add insult to injury...

The government would spend at least $100 million to answer petitions for tougher state rules, according to CBO.

We're less safe, it costs more, and of course we add to the national debt because it's all deficit spending.

Nice job. They got the hat trick.

[zbdent]

12. just wait until a repuke legislator's kid dies

from eating something with peanut oil in it, and their kid has an allergy . . .

[dusty64]

13. Rollcall

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2006/roll032.xml

[AndyA]

14. Everybody needs to hit the phones and start sending E-mails

Accusing our "elected" :eyes: officials of endangering the public health by allowing this to pass. Threaten to vote them out of office for this stunt alone, let alone all the other anti-consumer, anti-American votes they've cast.

This is really getting to be too much...these people work for US, and they are doing everything possible to make our lives worse for their efforts.

[Earth_First]

15. I ran a thread devoted to this for nearly a week...

it recieved little DU attention. I'm sick and tired of hearing 'after the fact' anger and outrage lately.

[AndyA]

16. Too many things going on, hard to stay on top of everything!

Half of the crap that's happening would pass by unknown to me if it weren't for DU and a few other Internet sources. I'm sure the lack of attention wasn't intentional, but it probably got buried under 5 or 6 other big stories at the same time.