A Further Few Words on Ingredients

Last week, I supported the idea that breweries, like food producers, should have to list their ingredients.  The proposal on the floor isn’t even a labeling law: the activist raising the question wants breweries to voluntarily list their ingredients on their websites.  I’m still mystified that this is a controversial proposal, but it is.  Aside from being tweaked by the Food Babe–the activist in question–the only real objection I can see runs along these lines:

What’s “in your beer” is, well, four or five ingredients. What goes into the MAKING of that beer is another matter altogether. 

and (from comments to my post):

I don’t think we need disclosure, for one thing, what is an ingredient? All these things are value judgements. Should butter list ingredients, milk, hamburger meat? If we list the cereal components of the mash, need we say whether insecticides were used to help grow those cereals? Do we say what trace elements of minerals are in the brewing liquor? Where does

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