Full disclosure in food labeling
Another season of campaign rhetoric is upon us, where U.S. Congressional candidates shill to family values, faith-based beliefs and American rights, the cornerstone of campaigns. An overlooked family value and faith-based belief is a family's right to make honest, healthy food choices that promote good health, lower medical costs and support family faith.
Unfortunately, this family value is systematically trampled by Congressmen and FDA officials, who, for the price of dinner and wine, allow food definitions to be twisted and labeling requirements diluted by lobbyists employed by chemical- and Agra-industrialists. Washington bureaucrats become the tool by which these conglomerates plow American family values underground in a quest for global food domination.
Moreover, genetically modified plants and animals, manufactured by Monsanto and DuPont, are experimental, patently owned and controlled, combatively deployed, and foisted on American dinner tables. Meanwhile, public relation campaigns train American families to trust them on matters such as DDT, PCB, Agent Orange, animal steroids and genetically modified plants and animals. To add insult to injury, Americans unwittingly support these campaigns through farm subsidies paid to Agra-industrialists.
Hardworking Americans no more trust Washington bureaucrats to run the nation for the benefit of American families than we trust government-empowered corporacrats to place a nutritionally balanced meal on our dinner table. Unethical and deceptive marketing practices make it difficult for independent farmers to deliver honest, traditional food choices to American families.
When America's “free market” becomes corrupt beyond recognition, it is time that voters tell Congress to grow a backbone, and return to a forgotten American resolve: government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth (Abraham Lincoln, 1863). Insist your Congressional candidate pushes for full-disclosure in food labeling. And, if a candidate asks what full-disclosure means, he/she is not your candidate.
Ken Busse
Wheaton