Copyright 1991 by Peter Huber. Only 1 word in 17 has any greasy, cloying tendency to clog the thought channels of your mind.
Good labels are undoubtedly an excellent thing.
Better that the government mandate disclosures about fabrics or securities than attempt to choose which are good enough for us to buy. Still, one wonders whether today's more zealous label police are doing us any real good. Start with fat. Ours is, without doubt, the land of the well rested and portly, of chubby masses yearning to be fat-free. So the label police have declared that fat content should be advertised as a percent of calories, not as a percent of the weight.