Re: Freedom to be stupid
wintermute, on host 195.153.64.90
Monday, July 16, 2001, at 09:25:06
Re: Freedom to be stupid posted by Wes on Monday, July 16, 2001, at 09:13:12:
> > Alternatively, the buyer could exercise just a little bit of intelligence and purchase the product with English nutrional information. The kind of person who reads nutrition labels has already proven themselves to be more than competent enough to make the former decision. People who don't read nutrion labels don't care anyway. The freedom to choose which product to buy will then have a very strong impact on the seller, as they provide only what people are willing to buy. > > No... The whole point of the law requiring nutrition labels would be shot if they were to allow this. They might as well say "Oh, alright, you can lie on your nutrition labels, as long as it's a great hyperbole.
Lying? Where did that come from? All that's being suggested here is that manufacturors could label the product in any way they chose *so long as the information is correct* and then the consumer can choose the product labelled in a manner they can understand. Is that so wrong?
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