Posted by
BLOGASSAULT on Saturday, June 06, 2009 10:58:28 PM
The state of California has now decided that eveything that is produced and/or sold in the state
now has to have a label on it stating how much carbon was emitted making it.
Carbon labels are modeled on federal nutrition labels, the federal Energy Star program, and efforts abroad like Britain’s Carbon Label for apparel and food (see example below) and are meant to address the overblown global-warming menace that the bill says “poses a serious threat to the economic well-being, public health, natural resources, and the environment of California.”
“When nutrition labels started letting consumers know about the trans fat in their food, they responded by buying healthier products,” says bill sponsor and Cal Assemblyman Ira Ruskin. “Consumers don't want trans fat, and they don’t want global warming.” But apparently they do want nanny bureaucrats telling them what they should buy.
So, next to the 35mg of sodium in your diet pop will be the 6 tons of carbon emitted to make it. Brilliant.
Since this is such a great idea, let's see the amount carbon spent on each bill that comes out of the California congress as well. I mean really; the amount of gas coming out of that place should put it out of business in a matter of weeks! And by the way, since McDonalds got rid of the trans-fats from their fries, they simply are not as good as they once were.