And there is a US Supreme Court case on this very issue, but for the moment it's title escapes me, but the court ruled in favour of Oleo margarine, I believe and allowed them to colour the margarine PRIOR to sale...
-----Original Message----- From: Bryan D Caplan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 11:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Silly business regulations William Dickens wrote: > > Wisconsin used to regulate the color of margarine. The dairy industry wanted to reduce the demand for it. From what I've been told there was a time when you bought white margarine, but it came with yellow food coloring that you could mix into it if you wanted to make your margarine look like butter. - - Bill Dickens I know from childhood stories that Massachusetts had precisely such a reg in the 30's. -- Prof. Bryan Caplan Department of Economics George Mason University http://www.bcaplan.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Alice could see, as well as if she were looking over their shoulders, that all the jurors were writing down 'Stupid things!' on their slates, and she could even make out that one of them didn't know how to spell 'stupid,' and that he had to ask his neighbor to tell him." Lewis Carroll, *Alice's Adventures in Wonderland*
