"If you like laws and sausage.

"If you like laws and sausage, you should not at any time watch either one being made." Otto Von Bismarck

Bismarck may have rethought his remark had he read the federal mandate that calls for the creation of a mandatory country-of-origin-labeling program. To compare the science of sausage making to the ambiguity of lawmaking is an insult to sausage processors everywhere.

No matter what your opinion of calm there is no doubt it is a poorly written law. Its language has left officials with the U Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service scrambling to

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