{"id":374,"date":"2006-06-30T03:40:26","date_gmt":"2006-06-30T03:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=374"},"modified":"2006-06-30T03:40:26","modified_gmt":"2006-06-30T03:40:26","slug":"food-labelling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=374","title":{"rendered":"Food Labelling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=http:\/\/www.additiverich.com\/morgue\/archives\/001445.html>Me, two weeks ago<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nFood and produce labelling continues to be a massively important battleground. At stake isn&#8217;t just animal welfare, but every aspect of food production in our society, and the attendant impact on our health and well-being.<br \/>\nThere is no good excuse for opposition to effective labelling. Companies fight it solely because they know their customers would be unhappy if they were better informed.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/stuff\/0,2106,3715212a6160,00.html>NZPA, yesterday<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nSue Kedgley&#8217;s bill to enforce a labelling regime detailing GE ingredients in food was voted down in Parliament yesterday night.<br \/>\nLabour and National joined forces to defeat it 99-20 on its first reading, despite the Green Party MP saying it was supported by the vast majority of consumers.<br \/>\nUnder the bill, GE ingredients and GE-derived ingredients would have to be shown on food labels, as well as the country of origin of all food items.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dammit.<br \/>\n(My awareness of the happenings at Parliament courtesy <a href=http:\/\/norightturn.blogspot.com\/>No Right Turn<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Me, two weeks ago: Food and produce labelling continues to be a massively important battleground. At stake isn&#8217;t just animal welfare, but every aspect of food production in our society, and the attendant impact on our health and well-being. There is no good excuse for opposition to effective labelling. Companies fight it solely because they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=374\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Food Labelling<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-62","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}