With the US government wanting to ban certain oils from restaurants, the Australian government wanting to ban cheese ads from kids TV, and Europe banning naming non-Greek feta cheese, feta cheese. Should they call it "I can't believe it's not Feta Cheese....Just because it's from Denmark"? How many of you think this is all rediculous?
You can eat raw oysters, and buy unpasteurized orange juice, but not unpasteurized cheese. By this logic, shouldn't raw oysters be banned?
Shouldn't parents decide how much cheese to feed their children? Shouldn't restaurants and restaurant goers decide what kind of oil they'll have? Remeber, most restaurants in the US voluntarily stopped using lard.
Isn't it silly we have such stringent food laws yet import tons of food from CHINA that has almost NO food saftey laws, where food often contains inedible toxins?
2007-06-24 08:54:06 · 5 answers · asked by minuteblue 6 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
Some people are too stupid to understand how to protect their own health. Then our ins. rates and health costs go up. Stupidity affects all of us.
2007-06-24 08:58:26 · answer #1 · answered by notyou311 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Its better to have tougher laws, than looking like China...
I've been there a while, and can't tell you that I was almost forced to eat in McDonalds and Kentucky restaurants to be sure that they were some food standards... Over there, they waste nothing and recycle everything, even rice... So its quite an advantures to eat over there (safely I mean). Maybe Chinese metabolism is used to what they eat, but I don't want to see, if mine is not...
Actually, if they were more researchs done in food safety, BEFORE food reach the market, it could help prevent forcefull laws to come into effects... Its just highlighthing our current vulnerabilities of our food safety system and foods in general.
Also, you may understand, that since our world is getting more and more multiethnics, we are getting exposed more and more to kinds of foods that never exist here before, and countries food regulations are not well harmonized, as they are each protecting their respective market...
2007-06-25 01:48:21 · answer #2 · answered by Jedi squirrels 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think they're stupid too. I think I'm smart enough to figure out that anything from a fast food place is bad, regardless of whether it has trans-fats or not. Making a FF restaurant get rid of trans-fat oil still isn't going to lure me in.
I don't get it, I grew up in the 70's and 80's eating junk food and didn't get fat. It's because I played outside a lot and rode my bike a lot. I don't want Big Brother (Gov't) telling me what I can and can't eat. If people would just watch what they put in their mouths, we wouldn't need Big Brother to step in.
2007-06-24 16:06:43 · answer #3 · answered by chefgrille 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I agree with the idea that certain countries should not call something that it is truly not. For example, port wine, every country makes port, but port is not port unless it comes from Portugal. Things like this are good because it protects the country or city that actually came up with the idea.
2007-06-24 16:01:27 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Its for your own health.
2007-06-24 16:39:26 · answer #5 · answered by ? Zoo York ? 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋