Eric Hardison responded:
> Yes, now the companies tell you that what you're eating is bad for you.
> And people still buy it. People already knew that the bag of chips or
> steak dinner was clogging their arteries, and they didn't care. If the
> point of the nutrition facts was to get Americans to eat better, then it
> failed. Similarly, if the govt. tried to legislate people into being
> vegetarians, meat would be right up their with cuban cigars...
Regardless of what the original intention of such legislation has been,
the real effect of it is to minimize the liabilities of corporations.
So now, when you get yourself addicted to tobacco, you do it knowingly;
"Don't say we didn't warn you!"
-- John Porter jporter@btg.com