Oh Please, Just Stop It
Like anyone thinks this is really health food?
I really try to avoid talking politics in this blog, because there are so many different sides to every situation, and right and wrong has a lot to do with how many sides we’ve been able to see. However, I just can’t help reacting to one of the more obvious political ploys that is currently in the news.
Let me take you back to March of this year. During that period, scientists released the results of a study that claims eating too much processed meat can increase your risk of colorectal and other cancers. I won’t say the results of the study are definitive, because there have been other studies that contradict these results. However, there is a vegan advocacy group, called The Cancer Project, that has taken the opportunity offered by these results to push their own agenda, filing a lawsuit against hot dog manufacturers that demands a label on hot dogs warning that they may cause cancer.
If we start to head down this path of food warning labels, what’s next? A warning label on a stick of butter that it might make us fat? Or a warning label on all cookie packages that they may become addictive and hurt our waistlines and our wallets? Enough already. Let’s not go any further down the road of frivolous lawsuits, especially when, unlike cigarettes, there isn’t a clear public danger posed by hot dogs, and when it’s really all about The Cancer Project pushing their own meatless agenda. Anyone that would care about this warning label, already knows that too much of anything, hot dogs, cookies, or anything else we enjoy, isn’t going to be good for us in one way or another. And the only thing a lawsuit will accomplish is to waste a lot of time and money that could be put to better use.
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If you put a warning label on everything you would basically have a warning label on nothing. The label would be meaningless.
But doesn’t it kind of seem like that’s the direction this country is heading? And who really reads them, anyway?
I wonder why we are heading down that direction. Seems like an issue with the vocal minority.
The issue is complex. At the simplest level, it’s about the small business farmer being put out of business because the government is subsidizing the big farmers so that they can sell below cost. Another larger issue relates to how or diet, and the diets of our livestock have been altered from their natural state to one that is disproportionately skewed toward corn, not the way nature intended, but because it’s cheap. I believe the ramifications are beyond what we can see today, however, I think the “vocal minority” is onto something in their wariness. I’ll talk more about these issues in future blogs as I read more of the source material. That said, I will still consume in-season, locally grown corn. The stuff you find in the winter that’s been brought in from other places can’t compare, and isn’t worth it anyway, imo.