Cancer Bananas!
Only in America are we so coddled, so protected–you’d imagine we’re unable to think for ourselves. Perhaps that’s why we appear to be such easy targets for terrorists. In other parts of the world, people are used to walking down stairs without a railing to hold onto. Somehow, they navigate humped up, broken concrete sidewalks (where they have any pavement at all) and cross roads without lines to show them where to walk. In my lifetime, I’ve tried to take the increases in protectionism in stride: motorcycle helmets, automobile seat belts, child car seats, cigarette warnings, bicycle helmets, skateboarders’ padding, liquor labels in bar restrooms, emergency instructions in aircraft. How did we survive our own childhoods and our parents’ ignorances?
But I draw the line at warning labels on my food!
I know that fruit labels, even fruit labels on the Internet, are nothing new. There are collectors and collections and probably competitions and havoc and furor over the adhesive and the claims. I couldn’t care less about people advertising on their own products. What I object to is the government intruding once again into our lives, using the cute little stickers to scare us silly.
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Rob on
Thu, 2nd Feb 2006 11:40 am
I”m from Massachusetts and I disagree with you. Think of it this way-the Government is actually telling the TRUTH for once!! Eat your Doggone fruits and vegetables and live a healthy happy life.
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