Comment on Prop65 label on my beans!
tal@lemmy.today 3 days ago
A wide range of products and businesses in California have scary looking Prop 65 warnings. Most restaurants have them posted. Just disregard it. They’re internal California politicking, and don’t represent a meaningful danger.
At one point, a group opposed to meat consumption tried to get a Prop 65 carcinogen warning stuck on all meat in California (though thankfully, that fell through.
One day, we will get our shit together in California, and you won’t see stuff like this.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
This is bullshit. Have they not heard of “the boy who cried wolf”? If they throw a meaningless label on everything warning about potential lead exposure, it loses meaning. Then once people learn to ignore these labels, suddenly nothing’s stopping them from ingesting products that are actually contaminated with lead. Because, you know, we already made those labels meaningless.
tal@lemmy.today 3 days ago
I don’t disagree. I’m not justifying the policy, just telling you not to panic when you see one.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
Yeah, let me start disregarding that label because they’ve made it meaningless. And then when I get lead poisoning for ignoring the label on the wrong thing, I won’t be able to hold anyone accountable because “it had a warning label”…