As always Marion Nestle has an excellent post on the latest corporate marketing drive directed at keeping you sick and fat.
It is not taking away YOUR choice to have Federal food safety regulations, so that YOU don't get sick after eating a slice of cantaloupe.
If you search down through the comments you'll see that the Washington Legal Foundation, which appears to be so concerned with individual freedoms, is actually funded by big corporations such as Pepsico.
Believe me, Pepsico couldn't give a shit about your freedoms, the only thing they're concerned about is profits. Corporate conglomerates don't give money to advertising campaigns promoting "individual choice" because its the warm and fuzzy thing to do. They do it because they're afraid that additional food safety regulations will cut into their profits.
Ads like the one Marion mentioned in her post generally never arise from real, individual, grass-roots concerns. They're corporate propaganda, pure and simple.
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