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of all that for the years that we have had our Constitution
and, of course, that was aluded to previously, the
business element and the producer has been somewhat
favored and we have had a philosophy of Let the Buyer
Beware '.
Our contention here is that if we include in
our Constitution a section worded as this is here, that
it will do something other than provide law. It will
change the attitude of business persons to inform the buyer
rather than try to hide things from him, to be fair with
the buyer, rather than try to trick him into deals.
This is the first area.
The second is that there are areas which are
not covered by interstate commerce as we are well aware.
I I think one of our congressmenerlleKsaid, in the debates
.Vy-
vi-fah- the Congress on the meat inspection laws that 74
percent of all the meat slaughtered in Maryland does not
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come under interstate commerce,,, whA-eh- means that we
are eating in Maryland food that is not necessarily healthy
and harmless, 90 that \Ae are saying that we need a state
law to take up the slack that is left by the Federal