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🗓️ 6 May 2016
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Would you believe me if I told you something called the Wholesome Meat Act didn't in fact make our meat more wholesome? I mean, it's called the Wholesome Meat Act! Didn't I read the name? As usual, there's more to a benign-sounding bill than meets the eye.
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0:41.0 | Hi, everybody, Tom Woods here. John Moody's back with us because I knew the last time we talked, |
0:46.1 | we had a lot more to talk about. And in particular, we're going to talk about meat. We're going to |
0:52.0 | talk about farming and we're going to talk about government regulation. |
0:56.1 | And in particular, what I want to start off with is a discussion of something I didn't even know about until, frankly, just this week. |
1:04.9 | And that's the Wholesome Meat Act of 1967. I mentioned it at the end of yesterday's episode because it's one of these things |
1:12.6 | that is worded and named in such a way that you feel like there's no way you could oppose it. |
1:18.1 | And that's exactly, of course, the way they want it. Who could be against wholesome meat? |
1:22.6 | But it turns out that as usual with Orwellian titles, Orwellian names for particular bills, there's more |
1:31.6 | to this than meets the eye. And John is going to talk to us about it and what people are trying |
1:36.1 | to do about it today to put things right. John Moody is a small farmer, author, and speaker |
1:42.5 | who serves as executive director of the Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund. |
1:48.2 | John, welcome back. |
1:49.6 | Great. Thank you for having me again. |
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