Freedom from Adulterated Foods/Food Labeling (piece-by-piece Constitution)

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(This is my ongoing series presenting pieces that I am formulating into my own constitution for any future country [including LL]. The wording is not set and is open to changes/additions/subtractions. Posting about it is just to stimulate debate, as should any good creator of a constitution.)

Freedom From Adulterated Foods

Food in its most natural state shall always be legal to buy and sell, and free from govt regulation or mandate. (Bold = Legal)

Raw milk and all other raw dairy in their most natural form shall always be legal and free from govt regulation or mandate.

Animal Meat and other animal products in their most natural form shall always be legal and free from govt regulation or mandate.

Fruits, vegetables, grains, nuts, and seeds in their most natural form shall always be legal and free from govt regulation or mandate.

Govt will take an advisory role only in relation to the food supply. If the govt believes a food supplier is providing spoiled or contaminated food, then they will advise the public of their findings via the Signs, Billboards, and Media program, and/or any other way they can get the information to the public. If a food supplier knowingly sells spoiled or contaminated food then they are guilty of the crime of intentional poisoning.

Govt authorized mass adulteration of the food supply will be a thing of the past. (Italics = Explanatory)

Food Labeling

Food labels must include every single ingredient, chemical, and/or human intervention that comes in contact with the food. Knowingly failing to include any ingredient/chemical/human intervention is a crime. (Bold = Legal)

Historically, countries have allowed usage of chemicals like hexane and polysorbate 80 to be omitted from food labels and therefore hidden from consumers. Never again will this be allowed. (Italics = Explanatory)

Private businesses can add chemicals, coatings, and/or sprays if they chose to offer an adulterated product, but the food label must include every substance and/or human intervention used, including natural substances. Example: injecting beef blood into a piece of beef; it must be included on the label that human intervention was used to inject the beef blood into the beef, even though the blood may have originated from the same piece of beef.

Grown products must include labeling showing all human added products to the soil. Example: if bone char was added to the soil of an apple tree, the label for the apple must say this.

A society’s food supply is not the place to harbor trade secrets.

All the different feed products given to an animal must be included on the label for any animal products and/or dairy products.

Animals fed soy have soy isoflavones circulating in their blood flow and residing in their meat and this is a pertinent piece of info for the consumer to have.

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You are more so an expert than me in this area. Can you explain to me why beef blood is injected into meat even if it is from the same meat?

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I assume it is to trick you into thinking the beef is fresher than it is by being more red and they don’t have to include it on the nutrition label because it is from the beef. I could be wrong about the blood tho, I know they mass inject beef with stuff because of videos like the one below. They might use a process of separating the blood into red coloring (myoglobin?) but then again they don’t have to tell us plebs what they are doing so we are left to guess that they will probably do the most evil stuff they are able to get away with.

It is confirmed they use Modified Atmosphere Packaging (MAP) which often includes a small amount of carbon monoxide or a high-oxygen mix to help maintain the red color.

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I really like the freedom first approach here. One way to strengthen it without adding regulation would be:

Make transparency a fundamental right (right to know what’s in food)

Require clear labeling for GMO, pesticides, and production methods

Allow private certification systems (organic, heirloom, pesticide-free)

Emphasize liability and fraud prevention instead of government control

Add risk disclosure instead of banning foods like raw dairy

This keeps the system market-driven while ensuring consumers can make fully informed choices.

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“Make transparency a fundamental right”

This is a very interesting idea and I have been tossing this around in my mind for many years. We haven’t seemed to become any better as a society under the current intellectual property laws, and secrecy arrangements in general.

I don’t know if we can mandate transparency everywhere across society all at once, so it seems best to pick certain segments (like food) and mandate transparency within that industry. It is akin to saying that there are no longer intellectual property rights within that industry because it is harmful to society to allow that situation.

If someone innovates within that transparent industry, they are not guaranteed to make money as a result, but they could dramatically improve their society. Hopefully this will dissuade undesirable elements from partaking (private equity) and bring in the optimistic dreamers.

As transparency is successful in certain industries, hopefully it could be extended to others. For instance, building construction materials are under very little regulation to tell us what chemicals are in their materials and so most of us do not know what chemicals we are surrounded by 24/7.

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Good point about the building materials Murf. I remember years ago about bad drywall having some chemical in it that made people very sick. While most people don’t think about building materials we could very well be dealing with toxins that are unknown to us. Lead and asbestos are two very well known toxins that most homes had until they were banned from construction materials (but they could still be in use?) Are there others out there that we have t been told about? I think it is a very good possibility.

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Absolutely. Maybe we should just put construction materials into the camp of mandating transparency. I hadn’t thought much about that until now.

Drywall is mostly calcium sulfate. Is calcium sulfate really what we should be surrounding ourselves with? Or, in the past, was it just cheap and easy to fit into some robber baron’s plan?