Quality Cheese Act of 2003

United States Senate ^ | (introduced 1/7/2003) | Sen Feingold, Russell D. [WI]

[farmfriend]

Quality Cheese Act of 2003

S.40

Sponsor: Sen Feingold, Russell D. [WI] (introduced 1/7/2003)
Latest Major Action: 1/7/2003 Referred to Senate committee.
Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Title: A bill to prohibit products that contain dry ultra-filtered milk products or casein from being labeled as domestic natural cheese, and for other purposes.

COSPONSORS

Sen Jeffords, James M. - 1/7/2003 [VT]
Sen Leahy, Patrick J. - 1/9/2003 [VT]

SUMMARY AS OF:
1/7/2003--Introduced.

Quality Cheese Act of 2003 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to prohibit the Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration from using Federal funds to amend specified regulations to include dry ultra-filtered milk or casein in the definition of "milk" or "nonfat milk" as specified in the domestic natural standards for cheese and cheese products.

[farmfriend]

This is a real bill folks. Of course it has about a snowballs chance...of passing.

[farmfriend]

Ok, Waspman. I posted the thread, enjoy.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

BTTT!

[farmfriend]

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[dighton]

Øøh -- cheeses, sisters, and the inevitable møøses!

[farmfriend]

All your bills are belong to us.

[dfwgator]

Behold the power of cheese.

[Willie Green]

Well, the bill's sponsors certainly have me suspicious.
But I'm ignorant as to what this actually means to the dairy industry.
In general, I support "truth in labeling" that helps distinguish "real cheese" from the pseudo-plastic, processed soy-based stuff that may have a little "natural" cheese flavoring to it.
Does this bill do anything like that?

[farmfriend]

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[dighton]

All your bills are belong to us.

The gøøse bills, dångerøüs to children and øther living things.

[farmfriend]

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[Willie Green]

Thanks for the link, I guess.
The "findings" sound good to me, so I think I'd be in favor of passage.
Yet I still don't trust the bill's sponsors to give my full support.
It still boils down to my basic ignorance of the details of how cheese is made.
Does this actually help guarantee that I'd be getting "real cheese" instead of the artificial crap?
Or are they trying to pull some kind of convoluted "fast-one" on me?

[farmfriend]

It looks like they are prohibiting adding any language that would include dry ultra-filtered milk or casein in the definition of the term `milk' or `nonfat milk',

[farmfriend]

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[Willie Green]

It looks like they are prohibiting adding any language that would include dry ultra-filtered milk or casein in the definition of the term `milk' or `nonfat milk',

Well, I know what dry milk is...
So if I buy a gallon of milk or non-fat milk,
I want to be sure I get REAL milk or nonfat milk,
And not reconstituted dry milk crap.

And as far as "casein" goes:

ca·sein
Pronunciation: 'kA-"sEn, kA-'
Function: noun
Etymology: probably from French caséine, from Latin caseus
Date: 1841
: a phosphoprotein of milk: as a : one that is precipitated from milk by heating with an acid or by the action of lactic acid in souring and is used in making paints and adhesives b : one that is produced when milk is curdled by rennet, is the chief constituent of cheese, and is used in making plastics

There's that dang "plastic" crap.
And I know I don't want "Real Cheese" that tastes like doggone plastic.

So I suppose I'm in favor of this legislation, despite my apprehension over the sponsors.

Tell me: why don't you think the legislation will pass?

[farmfriend]

Jeffords. He killed the dairy compact when he switched. The dairy industry will not get anything. Just a guess.

[chnsmok]

OK. It is FRENCH. Mobilize.

[Willie Green]

The dairy industry will not get anything. Just a guess.

Seems to me that this is something the the BIG GLOBAL DAIRY industry would favor, while small farmers would oppose.
Whoever BIG DAIRY is (Archer-Daniels???) would want to suck all the moisture out of milk so they could more cheaply ship it whereever they want, then just add water and still call it "milk" so they could undercut the local farmers. Same thing with the dang casein. The globalists would want to make bulk casein whereever it was cheapest, and simply mix it with whatever other chemicals (in different proportions for different types of cheese) as the need arises, rather than just making the cheese outright.

I still don't know if I have this figured out right, so correct me if I'm wrong. I'm trying to come down on the side of the small dairy farmer and small independent dairies in hopes that is where I'll continue to get the REAL thing.

[farmfriend]

Ok, since you insist on taking this bill seriously. Jeffords was a big advocate of the dairy compacts. If it's dairy and he is for it (excuse me while I barf) then it is a good bill for the dairy industry. It has been read twice, one more and it gets a vote. I just don't think with his name on the bill that it will pass. Punishment for defection.