In Defense - Part 3

Just a few quick facts that I find interesting here...

*In the late 1800s 5 states passed laws requiring all butter imitations to be dyed pink so everyone would know.
*The Supreme Court struck down that law 1898.
*The 1938 Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act required the word "Imitation" to appear on any food product that was an imitation.
*In 1973 that rule was removed after years of argument from the food industry.
*The new rule allowed that "as long as an imitation product was not 'nutritionally inferior' to the natural food it sought to impersonate (as long as it had the same quantities of recognized nutrients) the imitation could be marketed without using the dreaded 'i' word."
*Processors backed that move.... Surprise, surprise.

There are some other interesting tidbits about the use of "flavor packs" in Orange Juice in Brian St. Pierre's blog entry here: The Orange Juice Deception. It's not technically imitation now, because the "flavor packs" are made from orange extracts... Cool deal, just buy an orange.