Canada’s Dollar and Sense Stronger Than Ours

I was excited to see The Grinder taking on food regulations in a short post this morning titled Canadian Food: Now with Less Regulation! . But then I read the post, and found it’s nothing more than just your standard no such thing as a bad regulation hogwash so blindly followed by many in the media and public alike. It somehow conflates labeling* with inspection. It fails to acknowledge that large industries tend to like firm regulations because they create often insurmountable barriers to entry. It’s anti-food. It sucks. End of story on that. But in terms of the post’s topical issue, I’m getting a very strong sense that something revolutionary is afoot with food deregulation in Canada. It’s not just the elimination of these useless labeling requirements so beloved by The Grinder. (And it’s not like Canada doesn’t have–from the same article The Grinder cites –”hundreds of frontline inspectors to review labels on ...