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  1. Jun 2018
    1. FDA

      This can be connected to the meat crisis in America. No one truly knows how safe your food is to eat. The FDA could be finally looking closer at specific foods and making sure the public knows fully what they are putting into their bodies.

    2. Parts of the operation are high tech. Pumps and tubes help deliver the sap to holding tanks; a reverse osmosis machine concentrates the sweetness in the sap before boiling.

      How much does all this equipment cost? And how big is the market? Do syrup companies make a good amount of money?

    3. the FDA wants to label maple syrup as containing "added sugar,"

      This quote shows that the FDA wants to label Maple Syrup with added sugar. I disagree with the author in this point because the FDA's job is to regulate food, and if they realized something needed to be labeled, they should do it.

    4. 'Boy, great, right?'" he said. "Added sugar is going to have to be labeled, and maple syrup, obviously, there's no added sugar, so it's not going to have to have the labeling."

      This quote shows the argument of the entire article. The FDA wants to label all syrup as added sugar when maple syrup isn't. The author argues strong points on how it is unfair to say this about their company when they aren't adding sugar.

    1. There have always been rich people and poor people in America and, in a capitalist economy, the well-to-do have always had the freedom to indulge themselves as they please.

      This quote is 100% true

    2. The Omnivore’s Dilemma made the locavore movement a national phenomenon, and believes that eating organically and locally contributes not only to the health of her family but to the existential happiness of farm animals and farmers—a

      this quote is lowkey