http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2008/fsb/0804/gallery.fo...foods.fsb/index.html

No caviar, horse meat, Sea Bass [I rufuse to eat this one anyhow].

Nice to see the gov't keeping me healthy.

Fine by me

If you want horse meat, you can go to Italy. Plenty in Italy.

Probably a good match for the wine there.

Isn't it the government's job to tell us what we can eat?

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Originally posted by Board-O:
Probably a good match for the wine there.

Ouch!! Funny but ouch. You may be flamed for that one.

cdr: You are a true libertarian, my friend. Of course, the Gov't goes overboard, but the fact that they try to inspect food so it doesn't kill you isn't all that bad. (some of these bans are overboard in my view, but the line drawing is tough).
Here's the test for a true libertarian....Do you favor allowing elementary schools to have vending machines that sell heroin?

A true libertarian would say, "Only if the vending machines are owned by private industry".

(I now duck to avoid the attacks!)

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Originally posted by Board-O:
Probably a good match for the wine there.

Actually I prefer the great wines of Priorat with my horse meat.

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Originally posted by cdr:
Isn't it the government's job to tell us what we can may eat?

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Originally posted by irwin:
cdr: You are a true libertarian, my friend. Of course, the Gov't goes overboard, but the fact that they try to inspect food so it doesn't kill you isn't all that bad. (some of these bans are overboard in my view, but the line drawing is tough).
Here's the test for a true libertarian....Do you favor allowing elementary schools to have vending machines that sell heroin?

A true libertarian would say, "Only if the vending machines are owned by private industry".

(I now duck to avoid the attacks!)

What if you were a consequentialist?

And now a ban on west coast salmon...OUCH!!!

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Originally posted by wineismylife:

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Originally posted by Board-O:
Probably a good match for the wine there.

Actually I prefer the great wines of Priorat with my horse meat.

I bow to your experience with horsemeat.

At least it is horseMEAT.

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Originally posted by wineismylife:

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Originally posted by Board-O:
Probably a good match for the wine there.

Actually I prefer the great wines of Priorat with my horse meat.

Three or four years ago, I had the pleasure of sharing some meals with tsunami in Switzerland. He served horsemeat carpaccio one night and the match was a red burgundy (memory is a bit vague here given the amount of wine consumed that evening). For another meal, he made horse flank steak that we ate with a 1990 Gaja Sori Tildin from his cellar. These were both divine eating experiences.

I don't mind the Government putting restrictions on fish so they can repopulate. If we left that up to the free market who knows what would happen? We had a good run with salmon and sea bass up till their extinction, but the market is changing and we must adapt, behold, high fructose hydrogenated corn fish.

The trans fat and high fructose corns syrup can go. Damn, is sugar and butter too much to ask for?

Raw Milk can stay, they tried to get rid of that in CA. The two dairies drummed up a massive grass roots effort and stopped it.

I say ban the bad stuff and keep the good stuff.

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Originally posted by spo:
I say ban the bad stuff and keep the good stuff.

That's the problem right there. Who are you or anybody else to tell others what is "bad". It is a slippery slope you tread there Spo. One on which we seem to be sliding rapidly down. Nobody has the right to tell anyone else what they may ingest.

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Nobody has the right to tell anyone else what they may ingest.

There are a few things I would be willing to have banned to end the endless integration of them into every single food product imaginable.

I think you are missing my point. Sure there is plenty of crap being passed off as food out there. But once you allow the health nazis to start banning things where does it end? Some day they will come for something you like.

I read an article by Jeffrey Steingarten in which he experimented with making fries in horse fat with good results, but the meat? Is it good?

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Originally posted by VT2IT:

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Originally posted by spo:
I say ban the bad stuff and keep the good stuff.

That's the problem right there. Who are you or anybody else to tell others what is "bad". It is a slippery slope you tread there Spo. One on which we seem to be sliding rapidly down. Nobody has the right to tell anyone else what they may ingest.

Besides, the government is not very good at picking the "good" or "bad" foods.

Consider federal subsidies for high fructose corn syrup, trans-fatty acids, and tobacco. All once touted by our government for their health benefits.

Consider ketchup, originally considered a non-nutritious condiment. Reagan, in the 80s, proclaimed it a vegetable. Shortly thereafter it was relegated to junk food status, and now is widely hailed (minus the high fructose corn syrup) as a healthy source of lypocene.

Consider government warnings against eggs - too high in cholesterol - now known to contain "good" cholesterol. Same story with olive oil, etc. etc.

The problem with the feds making these choices is that once a product is deemed “good or “bad”, a vested tax-supported constituency becomes established to maintain the status quo.

I say let privately funded entities do the research on nutritional safety, and let the consumers decide. At least you can sue a private concern when they are wrong. Changing the government’s stance, considering the involvement of armies of lobbyists, is nearly impossible.