If you're a parent and you have an allergic child, you may know all the names of all milk-derived ingredients, but a child may not. So the plain English wording provides simple wording so they can understand it.

When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a piece of yourself inside her, because sometimes that is what it takes to claim.

It does not relate to other state labeling requirements, including Ohio's labeling requirements for honey or Alaska's regulations regarding farm-raised and salmon labeling.

It's given companies a new incentive to reformulate their product. They've reduced or eliminated trans fats, increased polyunsaturated fats and lowered saturated fats.

Why isn't there a commandment to "honor thy children" or at least one to "not abuse thy children"? The notion that we must honor our parents causes many people to bury their real feelings and set aside their own needs in order to have a relationship with people they would otherwise not associate with. Parents, like anyone else, need to earn respect and honor, and honoring parents who are negative and abusive is not only impossible but extremely self-abusive. Perhaps, as with anything else, honoring our parents starts with honoring ourselves. For many adult children, honoring themselves means not having anything to do with one or both of their parents.

If it's your child, it's different. You don't care about those things. It's so minor. You become a parent and nothing else really matters.