Government Decreed Food Color

Are our governments meddling too much in citizens daily lives today?

Not as much as in 1949

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Back in the day: The federal law states that public- eating places which serve colored oleo must post signs saying so, and that the oleo must be served in triangular pieces or be labeled as' oleo.

But the food and drug people say that checks made in areas where colored oleo has come upon

the market indicates that 10,000 or more public eating places in the United States will try to sell

patrons colored oleo for butter in violation of the law. The difference between them may be 30 or 40 cents a pound.

We won't see this in Michigan. Sale of colored oleo is still illegal under state law. A bill to legalize

sale of colored oleo was adopted by the legislature in ).949, but it is subject to a referendum vote of the people in November 1950.

I remember the dye packes that came with each package of margarine that my mother mixed in a bowl to make a butter appearing spread.

Paul Hunter