On 3/23/2015 9:56 AM, Nancy Young wrote:
> 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
>
It's a good thought, too. There's a meat market in town. Nice
selection. But for some reason the owner's wife thinks she's a great
cook so they also sell things she's made. Like cottage pie and lasagna.
She packages it herself. There's no telling what the heck is in it.
We bought some once after some urging when we were paying for steaks.
Perhaps if they'd been forced to have labels they would have read, "Some
nasty food my wife made."

Jill