• Prop 37: Oakland Tribune thumbs down [editorial] “Natural” language a flashpoint [Glenn Lammi, WLF] Earlier here, here;
• “Danish government may scrap its ‘fat tax’ after only one year because it simply doesn’t work” [Mark J. Perry, AEIdeas]
• “Mouse in Mountain Dew saga comes to an end” [Madison County Record, earlier]
• Food safety and local producers: “FDA Rules Won’t Work, Will Harm Small Farmers” [Ryan Young, CEI] “How Farmers’ Markets Dodged a Regulatory Bullet in Pennsylvania” [Baylen Linnekin, Reason]
• “On the roads, on the cheese board… many Europeans now have more freedom than Americans.” [Mark Steyn]
• Mayor Bloomberg extends his healthy-beverage solicitude to the youngest consumers [Steve Chapman]
• In France, raw milk in vending machines [Mark Perry] FDA ban on interstate shipment of raw milk dates back to lawsuit by Public Citizen’s Sidney Wolfe [Linnekin]

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