"That is why I stand with Vermont's sugar makers to ask the FDA to amend its guidance so that consumers are not led to believe that anything is added to their 100 percent pure Vermont maple or honey products
I agree with this because the new FDA label would be a misrepresentation of what's actually in the product.
The FDA is accepting public comment on the new rules until June 15, and has given maple and honey producers up to three years to comply with the new labeling requirements.
With the new rule, the Vermont tradition of all natural syrup would be ruined and it wouldn't be the same for the people.
As part of a campaign to educate consumers about excess sugar in their diets, the FDA wants to label maple syrup as containing "added sugar," meaning an additional amount of sugar in your diet.
that is a very manipulative strategy
"But all the other fluid products that we compete against — Mrs. Butterworth, Log Cabin — whatever," he said, "those all have added sugars, so they're going to have to have added sugar labels. So that's a great differentiator for us."
Very true and certain people tend to buy healthier foods so those people would be pleased to see that they can buy a healthier version of the syrup that has no added sugar, but the FDA ruins it for them.
cleaning up from a season
when does the syrup season start and end?
But since the sap run ended, they've also spent weeks hiking across 600 very steep acres to pull some 23,000 taps from trees by hand.
The crews are very hardworking. I would have never thought that some of the natural syrups I've ever ate caused their crew to hike across 600 acres of land an pull about 23.000 taps from trees by hand.
Maple syrup producers take pride in their pure, natural product. So when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration proposed new labels to say maple syrup contains "added sugar," producers fought back.
Why does the FDA feel the need to say that there is added sugar in the natural product when really, it most likely contains natural sugars.
Faber was more succinct: "Ancestry.com should not be in charge of who is eligible for farm subsidies."
I'm kind of confused as to why Ancestry.com is i charge or who is eligible for farm subsidies.
, as well as allow extended family members to receive lucrative payments.
this sentence in the article is the main argument and shows what the rest of the article will be about
Up to 2 million SNAP recipients could lose or have their benefits slashed under the proposed rule changes, according to the left-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
This sentence is used as evidence towards the main argument and is a statistic.