The Costco butter disaster illustrates why big government must go – IOTW Report

The Costco butter disaster illustrates why big government must go

American Thinker

By Andrea Widburg

Few regulatory agencies seem familiar with the expression, “The perfect is the enemy of the good.” Common sense also seems alien to them. How else can one explain that the FDA pushed Costco to recall 80,000 pounds of butter because the packaging didn’t have an allergy warning saying that the “cream” listed on the ingredients is a form of milk?

Although few know it, the FDA’s genesis was one of the better things to come out of the progressive movement. When it was founded in 1906, pharmacists and food and cosmetics manufacturers were dumping anything into their products, whether to bulk them up for more profit or to make them look or taste better. Even by the mid-1930s, it was a relatively toothless organization. That’s how, in 1937, the premodern antibiotic Elixir Sulfanilamide killed over 100 Americans. The resulting Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938 gave the FDA some teeth. more

21 Comments on The Costco butter disaster illustrates why big government must go

  1. one would think that they could print a simple sticker that says ‘contains milk’ and put it on the packaging.
    they could also make a bigger stickers and put them on the sides of cows.
    if the stickers don’t stick to the hair on the cows, they can maybe put them on the plastic fart bags they want cows to weaar, with an arrow pointing towards the cow.
    this stuff ain’t hard

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  2. so, if the packaging of something says it contains cream has to say that it ‘contains milk,’ how come all the facial cosmetic creams don’t have to say ‘does not contain milk’?

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  3. “If they tell you to jump off a bridge, are you gonna do it??”

    If you keep them at arm’s length, ‘educated’ liberals are stupid/hilarious!!

    Did you hear “Lunchables” are NOT healthy meals for children?! Gasp!!!!

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  4. Sad as it is, our young(er) population is just that ignorant. I won’t say “stupid” because I think they’re capable of learning. The problem is with what they are being taught. Where they are culpable is they’ve also been brainwashed into thinking that if they don’t know something they should have known, their attitude is that common sense knowledge is “common” and therefore beneath their self-importance to bother knowing. This is not mere speculation, I’ve seen it in action.

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  5. I bought a can of mixed nuts a couple of days ago. The ingredients were listed on the can: cashews, almonds, pistachios, pecans, etc. Underneath the ingredients, there was an allergy warning: contains cashews, almonds, pistachios, pecans, etc. What person who is (presumably) allergic to nuts needs an allergy warning on a can of nuts that the can of nuts contains nuts?

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  6. There isn’t a safety warning anywhere that will protect the person without common sense. I’ve seen more than one instance of a person that seemed to believe that his orange vest could be seen thru a bulldozer blade or a piece of equipment’s blind spot.

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  7. My brother-in-law who can be a smartass worked as a 911 operator and one time got a call from a patient at Eastern State Hospital, the local nut house in Medical Lake, Washington and asked the unidentified caller if he was a regular nut or a chocolate nut. He’s probably lucky they didn’t fire him for that, but they got a good laugh out of it.

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  8. @ general:

    Both are nutritious in common sense quantities as they contain natural saturated fats which our brains require.

    This may explain the lack of intelligence in our country – we don’t eat enough of this nutritious fat.

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