Vermont § 3301 - Legislative findings Meat, meat food products, poultry, and poultry products are an important source of the State’s total supply of food

§ 3301. Legislative findings Meat, meat food products, poultry, and poultry products are an important source of the State’s total supply of food

• . They are consumed throughout the State. It is
  essential to the public interest that the health and welfare of consumers be protected
  by ensuring that these commodities are wholesome, unadulterated, and properly marked,
  labeled, and packaged. Unwholesome, adulterated, or misbranded meat, meat food products,
  and poultry products impair the effective regulation of intrastate commerce, are injurious
  to the public welfare, destroy markets for wholesome, not adulterated, and properly
  labeled and packaged meat, meat food product, and poultry product, as well as cause
  injury to consumers. The unwholesome, adulterated, mislabeled, or deceptively packaged
  articles can be sold at lower prices and compete unfairly with the wholesome, unadulterated,
  correctly labeled, or nondeceptively packaged articles, to the detriment of consumers
  and the public generally. It is hereby found that the regulation, enforcement, licensing,
  and other provisions contained within this chapter are necessary to protect the health
  and welfare of consumers. (Added 1985, No. 226 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. June 2, 1986.)