I had the pleasure of visiting Australia for 3 weeks a couple of summers ago. While there I asked numerous questions about the culture and the political system. They seemed to have a lot figured out. They provided for their people with a well worked healthcare and welfare system. The people seemed very happy, the cities were clean, and the standard of living was on the rise. However, they were missing what we would consider uncompramisable rights. For example, their goverment had decided it was dangerous to have gun owners, so they outlawed the right to own a firearm unless you needed it as a farmer. There was no vote about it, they just created the law. This might not seem like the biggest deal. However, they did not have freedom of speech either. They could not say whatever they wanted to like we can. Right?
Well, in actuality there are some limits on our freedom of speech. You can not stand in a theater and yell "FIRE!!!" Which seems to be a good caveat to the law. If this was allowed panic would be caused, people could get hurt, it seems like an excellent exception to the law.
Well here is one that is not. In the lovely state of Colorado it is illegal to "slander" food. Meaning that unless you have scientific proof that the food you are eating is bad for you you can not say a word about it. So if you visit the slaughter house, and see how the meat is being killed, and know that more likely than not that food is not being treated to a standard that you would want to eat, and you say something about it, you are now breaking the law. Or if you look at what meat filler is (a meat like compound that is treated with numerous chemicals in order to render it sterile which is then put into hamburgers that you eat) and say "hey, this is terrible stuff to eat!" you could end up in prison or sued.
So far for freedom of speech right?
Check out if you live in a state where food "slander" is a crime.
http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy/2009/11/burger-bashing-and-sirloin-slander-food-disparagement-laws-in-the-united-states/
http://www.rense.com/health/milk.htm
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And I thought to say slanderous remarks meant false things. To say meat filler is bad for you, is in fact, a fact. the human organisism can not digest man-made synthetic compounds, it is distructive to sell groth and regenreration(healing)
ReplyDeleteDude you live in a country where criminals are in charge and exempt from the laws they create and profit from.
Good luck and have pity on the future generations. To raise a family is to contribute the the workering taxable drones ie the children