Comments on: Red Wine Is Good For You, But The Government Keeps It A Secret http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/11/25/red-wine-is-good-for-you-but-the-government-keeps-it-a-secret/ Life. Liberty. Property. Defending individual freedom and liberty, one post at a time. Wed, 22 May 2013 18:26:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Adam Selene http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/11/25/red-wine-is-good-for-you-but-the-government-keeps-it-a-secret/#comment-3608 Adam Selene Mon, 27 Nov 2006 20:21:22 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/11/25/red-wine-is-good-for-you-but-the-government-keeps-it-a-secret/#comment-3608 So, you think it’s government’s job to protect industry from itself?

]]> By: winehiker http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/11/25/red-wine-is-good-for-you-but-the-government-keeps-it-a-secret/#comment-3607 winehiker Mon, 27 Nov 2006 19:57:39 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/11/25/red-wine-is-good-for-you-but-the-government-keeps-it-a-secret/#comment-3607 Perhaps it is no more than a checks-and-balances issue. It’s probably just as well that the wine industry should allow others to be their proponents, anyway. Plus, it’s not like the wine industry has to beg for support — there are legions of wine fans across the nation who are quite willing to spread the notion of wine’s health effects (on digg, for example).

If the wine industry was to trumpet the virtues of its collective wares, our view of them, before too long, might be no less contemptible than toward the snake-oil salesman of yesteryear.

Maybe that’s why the regulations exist in the first place.

]]> By: Edutheria » Blog Archive » Prohibition redux http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/11/25/red-wine-is-good-for-you-but-the-government-keeps-it-a-secret/#comment-3562 Edutheria » Blog Archive » Prohibition redux Sun, 26 Nov 2006 18:46:17 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/11/25/red-wine-is-good-for-you-but-the-government-keeps-it-a-secret/#comment-3562 [...] From The New York Times, via The Liberty Papers: In 1991, some aggressive winemakers sought to trumpet the health benefits of wine, but they were quickly shut down by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, which then regulated the industry at the federal level. Even the industry’s trade organization, the Wine Institute, counseled against promoting wine as a health drink. Mr. Mondavi, who was then involved in running his family business, the Robert Mondavi Corporation, was one of those who chafed at the strictures. “We actually resigned from the Wine Institute because we wanted to come out and say wine is healthy and good for you,” Mr. Mondavi said. “We put on a back label, that wine is healthy and recommended in the Bible,” he added. “The B.A.T.F. sent us a cease and desist letter and made us change the label even though we went back to Washington and showed them the scientific evidence and read them the Bible passages.” [...]

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