KBIA Local
(2009-12-18)
JEFFERSON CITY
(KBIA) -
Missouri state laws currently bans grocery stores from selling something you likely have in your fridge. Margarine is an illegal substance. Due to several provisions passed starting in the late 1800s, imitation butter was banned from being sold in Missouri stores. But Springfield Representative Sara Lampe has introduced a bill to repeal this law after hearing from constituents that they wanted fewer laws on the books."We called the Department of Agriculture and asked if they'd enforced it anytime recently and they said absolutely not. Most people there didn't even know it was on the books."
Lampe said the law has served it's purpose, but it's time to go.
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