Our colleagues at the Oregon Public Health Institute shared a quiz that might get you thinking about the need for betterment labeling. Take the quiz yourself here and see how your score looks. Counties and some states are addressing the issue. Do you think we should have federal policy on menu labeling?
Let’s see, we can’t get the FDA to let us know that they have pink slime in our meat, they want to cut federal agents from inspecting our chickens; having the company’s do their own spot check for bad chickens (and not spraying them with bleach to lessen bacteria), and now high fructose corn syrup is natural, (oh yeah, and can be listed as ‘other flavorings’), never mind high metal poisoning in our fish (at least being tested and listed)…and they want to take over our menus???? I would rather gamble with what the proprietor’s think is in their food…no, I think not.