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srican69

(1,426 posts)
Thu Apr 11, 2013, 02:53 PM Apr 2013

Who Knew? Our Freeper friends are fully in favor of truth-in-labeling when it comes to Aspartame

My guess was that any government imposed 'labeling requirements' would be against their free market capitalistic ideals ....

You can find the thread here...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3006736/posts


sample of responses

To: F15Eagle
Well, it would be nice to know if something has aspartame.


To: ilovesarah2012
Many product regulations are horse manure, including the ban on raw milk, but the truth in labeling laws are reasonable. Products should be truthfully labeled with all ingredients that are added.

To: F15Eagle
I can lower seizure threshold in epileptics. My daughter avoids it because she doesn’t want to bring on seizures. I would be very upset if it was not labeled.


And of course you had some 'make your head hurt- stupid comments' for eg

To: Pollster1
I agree and assumed they were. How stupid of me to trust the government on anything.


and I was thrilled to know that MONSANTO is hated over there too



To: Salamander
I guess allowing Monsanto to poison the grain chain wasn’t enough.

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Who Knew? Our Freeper friends are fully in favor of truth-in-labeling when it comes to Aspartame (Original Post) srican69 Apr 2013 OP
It's a no brainer. Who could possibly oppose it. Buzz Clik Apr 2013 #1
 

Buzz Clik

(38,437 posts)
1. It's a no brainer. Who could possibly oppose it.
Thu Apr 11, 2013, 02:55 PM
Apr 2013

Well, on second thought, we are talking about Freepers. Nevermind.

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