Big Tobacco lawyers target food industry over deceptive labeling
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posted on Monday, October 15, 2012
Lawyer Don Barrett reframes the industry’s classic “personal choice” argument: “Nobody’s trying to tell the American people what they have to eat or what they cannot eat, the American people can make those decisions for themselves. It’s all about free choice. To have free choice you have to have accurate information. That means Big Food, the food companies, have to start telling the truth about what’s in their product. The law requires it.”