On 3/23/2015 7:47 AM, Moe DeLoughan wrote:
> On 3/21/2015 4:31 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>> When I went in to my local Dutch butcher this morning to pick up my
>> weekly order I was told that bad news that they are closing down. They
>> are victims of bureaucracy. He told me that the government told him
>> he had to put nutrition labels on all his products, and he cannot
>> afford to do that.
>
> I call bullshit on his claim. The government grants a small business
> exemption for ground meat products:
>
> "to qualify for the small business exemption for ground or chopped
> products, a retail store must either be a single retail store or a
> multi-retail
> store operation that employs 500 or fewer people and produces no more
> than 100,000 pounds of each ground product per year".
>
> And as for intact meat cuts, the business has the option of putting a
> label on the package *or* displaying a poster with the nutrition
> information *or* providing pamphlets with that information.

I wonder if he sells other than meats. My butcher makes all
kinds of prepared dinners and sides, besides meat and their
sausages. I think it must be a big part of their business as
it takes up half the counter space in the store. It can't be
easy to provide nutritional info for that stuff, never mind that
it's probably a rotating selection.

Just a thought.

nancy