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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Hey, let the states compete with each other. If people in Nebraska don't want to pay the costs of having more food regulation, good for them. If people in California want to be more careful about heavy metals in their fish, OK. But let's have a federal baseline so that when I travel to Nebraska, I don't need to worry about whether they've completely surrendered to the greater profits of ConAgra, Hormel, etc.
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So Nebraska should be able to compete with other states on food labeling requirements, unless it's competing for your tourism dollar? Why should the ratchet be one way? If you trust states to impose higher standards, why not trust them to impose lower standards, if that's what their citizens want? And if you choose to go there, well, don't eat the fish, or don't go there, or take the same chances anyone in Nebraska takes.
