Good Eats

As of yesterday, legislation mandating COOL (Country of Origin Labeling) for meats, fish, and produce took effect. However, the USDA will not enforce the law for several more months, in order to give retailers time to adhere to it.  From the New York Times:

Under the new rule, grocery stores will have to identify the country of origin for meats, produce and certain nuts; seafood is already labeled. Though it took effect on Tuesday, the Agriculture Department gave retailers six months to comply with the new law.

Still, this is a great development. All food products should be moving toward transparency when it comes to ingredients and processes. This is what American consumers deserve and want.

Elsewhere in food safety news, California has become the first state to require chain restaurants (20 or more locations) to list calorie information on menus. Unfortunately, the legislation won’t take effect until 2011. But it’s the beginning of a trend. From the Washington Post:

Legislation similar to the California law has been approved in cities across the country, including New York, Seattle and San Francisco. Proposals are pending in several others, including Chicago, Washington and Philadelphia.

It’s a start!

-- Dylan Blaylock

Comments

[Axel]

Dear GAP, 10/1/2008

As I have just noticed on your todays Home Page News Page of your requests. I mention this as if it will be a helpful start to release the WPA 2008 to a floor vote from these alleged US Senators illegal subterfuge, please send or carry to them copies of my recent blog comment replies to your recent 4 Articles, 1 reply, 8 replies, 13 replies and some of the 5 replies adn send me the amount of your cost so I may at least offer some reimbursment.

As all at GAP well know I am highly grateful and in your debt for your kind and gracious, patient and tolerant, superb and excellent due dillegence and highly commendable perserverence with the highest of commendable proper and forthright, Integrity, Dignity, Fidelity, Bravery and highly exemplary notable Compassion to all and our Us Constitution, Democracy and the proper and forthright rspect, regard and interpretation towards,to and of our Laws, Rules and Regulations and their endeavors towards Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness for all, our Bill of Rights and the proper and forthright application(s) of our inalienable rights and with the best possible respects and regards to God, Man and Country.

Thank you and all for your time and consideration.

Sincerely,
Axel

[Axel]

Dear US Legislatures, 10/01/2008
Dear Readers,

I have enclosed several explanations from Dictionary.com that should assist in your reasonable comprehension to my previous reply comment on this page and use of the words SUBERTFUGE
and NUGATORY.

Subterfuge > noun: an artifice used to evade a rule, escape a consequence, hide something, etc

synonyms deception, scheme, trick, dodge ruse.

noun: a deceptive stratagem or devive//"the paltry subtrefuge of an anonymous signature"

"an evasion", "to evade, escape, flee by stealth'; from subter 'beneath, secretly" + fugere "flee"

noun: something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activty; "he wasn't sick--it was a subtrefuge" "the holding company was just a blind"

flee secretly, to escape. That to which one resorts for escape or concealment; an artifice employed to escape censure or force of an argument, or justify opinions or arguments or conduct; a shift; an evasion.

Affect not little shifts and subterfuge, to avoid the force of an argument.

BY MISERABLE SUBTERFUGE, THEY HOPE TO RENDER THIS POSITION SAFE BY RENDERING IT NUGATORY!!
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NUGATORY!! trifling; vain; futile; insignificant

Of no force; inoperative; ineffectual

IF ALL ARE PARDONED, AND PARDONED AS A MERE ACT OF CLEMENCY, THE VERY SUBSTANCE OF GOVERNMENT IS MADE NUGATORY!!

Thank you and all for your time and consideration.

Sincerely,
Axel

[Axel]

Dear Readers, 10/2/2008
Dear US Legislatures,

I was sad to note that our US Senatorial Members last night passed this so-called unconstitutional anti-democratic bail-out and by a 75-24 margin and during our US Election Season. (Also the US Senate could have, stop gapped, immediately iniatited the much needed and overdue FDIC Limit $250,000 increase to include ALL MONEY MARKET FUNDS!!). Also our US Senatorial legislature and as I presume they would well know they could have Voted 'NO' and allowed the identitification of the problems and ended the secrecy of these off shore dervitives and accounts and therefore allowed the view and endeavors to successfully accomplish and apply the correct solutions and resolves. It is also sad for me to note that our US Senators in appearance have failed in their mandated duty and obligation to bring to a floor Vote HR 985 and held in subterfuge HR 985 in which and our US Senators should well know and was brought to my attention last night jury trials alone are mandated in our US Constitution, Bill of Rights Amendment VII. This and again seemingly appear that our US Senatorial Legislatures and seemingly as a whole in these many aspects appear seemingly to this day as without Decency, Integrity and Shame in many aspects and the ability and thereof in many aspects and upon our 'We the People' and within our US Constitution, Democracy and the proper and forthright interpretation of our Laws, Rules and Regulations.

Please allow me again to suggest and/or my request that our US Congressional Legislature Vote 'NO' on this intended bail-out as it is broadcasted on our MSM, Main Stream Media.

Again, please allow me to compliment the Fidelity, Integrity and Bravery of our US Legislatures that have several years ago successfully accomplished HR985, Federal Employee (Restoration) Protection Act and passed this already mandated US Constitutional and Democratic Legislation and by a President Bush VETO proof majority.

Also and finally in this impromptu and hurriedly written blog comment reply to the inference 'Its a start! please allow me again to request your review and consideration that it be suggested that 'We the People' not further be subjected to the seemingly, Lies, Threats and Hysteria from our US Executive Branch of Government, White House and the highly visiable and apparent of their deliberate and successful accomplishments to subterfuge our US Constitution, Democracy and Laws and therefore immediately today subpoena, handcuffs if necessary, prosecute and held without bail if necessary and/or immediately today Impeachments of these seemingly deranged, maniacal and despotic Individuals and as mentioned in part in my 2000 and 2002 pro bono appellate Federal Circuit Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and my US Supreme Court review that has not been initially answered or responded to in over 5 years adn on the grounds I have mentioned consistently on the POGO, GAP and NWC websites for many years to include, illegal and Un Constitutional, Illegal Iraq War, Torture, Illegal Wiretaps, Visa Violations, Illegal Secrecy, illegal rendition and captivity, illegal Patriot Act considerations for review and consideration for prosecution, et all and other prosecutable and/or impeachable high crimes and misdeamoners.

Thank you and all for your continued time and consideration and for your successful accomplishments and as I have described and in you continued and future endeavors.

As I have quickly written this somewhat brief reply that hopefully GAP will allow me to make any necessary corrections as necessary and/or to more correctly enhance the interpretations.

Thank you and all for your time and consideration.

Sincerely,
Axel