Missouri Considers Decriminalizing Margarine

[KansDem]

Law Dates To 1895

POSTED: 10:44 am CST December 16, 2008
UPDATED: 10:51 am CST December 16, 2008


JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- A southwest Missouri lawmaker wants to decriminalize margarine.

House member Sara Lampe said Tuesday that she plans to file legislation repealing Missouri's butter law, which dates to 1895.

The law restricts the sale, possession or shipment of imitation butter and bans yellow-tinted varieties. Those dealing contraband dairy products can be fined up to $100 and jailed for up to a month.

Lampe, a Springfield Democrat, said the law doesn't make sense anymore.

Enforcement is up to the state Department of Agriculture. And spokeswoman Misti Preston said the butter laws are no longer enforced.

Preston said the regulations likely were created to protect Missouri's dairy industry.

KMBC

All right!!! We can end the "War on Margarine!" :woohoo:

[MarkInCA]

1. Oleo my

I didn't realize this injustice was going on!

[Greyhound]

12. Minor anal leakage...

[John Q. Citizen]

2. I can't believe it's not killer bud!

[dysfunctional press]

3. margarine is a well-known gateway spread...

pretty soon, people will be moving on to pesto.

[Dogmudgeon]

5. We already have kids addicted to peanut butter and jelly. Addicted, I say!

--p!
Can Marmite be far behind?

[PVnRT]

4. Ridiculous! Margarine tastes like shit!

[flyingfysh]

6. if they decriminalize it

soon all the high school kids will be smoking it!

[Vanje]

8. Its a slippery slope

Very very slippery!

[qb]

7. Trans fats should be illegal. Missouri is ahead of its time.

:rofl:

[LeftyMom]

19. They make transfat free margarine. I've got a tub in the fridge.

[AnneD]

9. And what about our dependence on foreign olive oil.....

we are far to dependent on a source that could be cut off.

[Robb]

10. Good. And they should tax the hell out of it, too

Use the money to finance butter-addiction programs and margarine-fuel projects.

[GodlessBiker]

11. Margarine: I can't believe it's not criminal.

[MadHound]

13. Wow, that's odd. Judging by what I've seen in the grocery stores for the past forty years

That law has been ignored for a long, long time. We've got every type of margarine on the shelves that other states have, yellow tinted and all. Have had since the sixties.

But hey, if this is what it takes to keep our legislature occupied and not fucking the state over, I'm all for it:shrug:

[TlalocW]

14. After that

Maybe we can get rid of the law that says I can't hunt whales in Oklahoma, or that my friends in Kansas can't eat snakes on Sundays.

TlalocW

[ipfilter]

24. I can live with the whale law in Oklahoma

but the 3.2 beer just pisses me off.

[anigbrowl]

15. Fine example of why all laws should have a sunset provision

Indeed, I wish this were a constitutional imperative. Our body of law is hopelessly unwieldy and excessively subject to populist sentiment in all its fickleness.

[meegbear]

16. In honor of this, one of my favorite lines from Batman ...

CatWoman has the dynamic duo tied onto reflective grills

CatWoman: And the bars have been coated in butter to make you all the more fryable.
Robin: Holy Oleo!
CatWoman: I didn't know you could yodel.

[dysfunctional press]

17. julie newmar...?

she was my favourite.

[meegbear]

18. Yessiree Bob ...

[Renew Deal]

20. Is margarine sold in Missouri?

I've only been there once and I didn't think to look.

[KansDem]

22. Yes, had I known there was this law I would've called "911"

...and had the store owner arrested! But Missouri officials always know which side of their bread is buttered...

[DemoTex]

21. Show Me the oleo ..

Show me the Smart Balance™.

Book 'em Danno

[juno jones]

23. Butter is better

But seriously, I remember my dad telling me that in the depression the margarine came with packets of yellow food coloring. They couln't sell it yellow, so the housewife was assumed to add the coloring to make it more palatable to the eye.

I don't use margarine. Nasty shit. Butter, olive and grapeseed oils for me thanx.