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Article: Pizza -With Extra Casein?
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- August 15, 1987
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I was initially baffled by the editorial attacking efforts to
require truth in pizza labeling {Aug. 9}. The Post is not exactly
renowned for resenting government intrusion in the marketplace, so I
was at first slightly bewildered to find among its editorials a
free-market broadside against the real-cheese label requirement.
Upon closer examination, though, the real reasoning became
clearer. The Post objects to the labeling requirement not out of
fear that government will become a mere tool of the dairy industry
(Big Cheese as Big Brother?), but because it's "better for the
customer" to eat artificial cheese instead of real cheese on pizzas
(emphasis added).
Forget for the moment that ...