This never made any sense to me - how can we say that holding a broadcaster to telling the truth violates freedom of speech - that is simply insane PC

So round 2 to the People.

So how about having a go at other Regulators who are in the pocket of those they pretend to regulate - Food would be a good place to start where regulation ignores the lies and systemic problems of big food and penalizes the small and local?

Amplify’d from www.cbc.ca

The CRTC has withdrawn a controversial proposal that would have given TV and radio stations more leeway to broadcast false or misleading news.

Indeed, the broadcast regulator now says it never wanted the regulatory change in the first place and was only responding to orders from a parliamentary committee.

However, Von Finckenstein said the CRTC "never wanted to touch this thing" and had, in fact, dragged its feet for 10 years until "we ran out of stalling devices." He said the CRTC finally proposed the change this year "because we were ordered to do it."

Liberal MP Andrew Kania, co-chairman of the joint parliamentary committee on scrutiny of regulations, challenged von Finckenstein's interpretation of what happened.

He said the committee never ordered the CRTC to do anything. It only asked, 10 years ago, that the CRTC consider whether the blanket ban on false news might violate freedom of speech guarantees in the Charter of Rights. The request was prompted by a Supreme Court ruling in the case of Holocaust-denier Ernst Zundel.

Over the past two years, the committee reminded the CRTC that it still hadn't responded on the matter but did not push for any particular regulatory change, Kania said.

Only last week, in the wake of the public outcry over the CRTC's proposed change, did the committee consider the substance of the issue. Kania said committee members concluded that free speech guarantees don't apply to broadcast licence holders in the same way as they do to individuals. Read more at www.cbc.ca

Here it goes again - the focus is on the minimal risks of artisan food and the larger picture of millions of people's health is ignored.

One day it will be common knowledge that most of the foods that we eat daily have been making us ill. Not acutely but systemically. Today those that make this food, like the tobacco industry, know the truth - that what they make and sell is truly dangerous.

Confinement, intensity, the focus on corn and on shelf life all bring not risks but real damage. Damage to most people, not to the 60 people in this case.

But the Food System CANNOT be questioned. So it pushes back at the very place where progress and reform is alive. Where food is not made in an industrial context. They attack small growers and processors.

Wake up and see how regulatory capture attacks us!

Amplify’d from www.nytimes.com

Federal regulators are considering whether to tighten food safety rules for cheese made with unpasteurized milk — and the possibility has cheesemakers and foodies worried that the result will be cheese that is less tasty and not much safer.

The debate focuses on a federal rule that requires cheese made from raw milk to be aged for 60 days before it is deemed safe to eat. Raw milk has not been heated to kill harmful bacteria, a process known as pasteurization. So aging allows the chemicals in cheese, acids and salt, time to destroy harmful bacteria.

Today, with the artisan cheese industry booming, the focus is on homegrown cheesemakers. Read more at www.nytimes.com