Food Labeling / Heath Alert

[Hippie Staff]

FOOD LABELING ALERT:
PUT THE "NATURAL" BACK IN MEATS LABELED AS "NATURALLY RAISED"


Thanks to a backlash of consumer letters from concerned consumers, the USDA has extended its public comment period on its proposed standard for meats labeled as "naturally raised". A 2007 Consumer Reports survey found that 83% of consumers assume a "naturally raised label means "it came from an animal raised in a natural environment." Yet the USDA's proposed standard is so weak, it would apply to a cloned animal raised in the confines of a factory farm, and fed a steady diet of genetically engineered grains.

Yum.

[Buffalo Head '75]

FOOD LABELING ALERT:
PUT THE "NATURAL" BACK IN MEATS LABELED AS "NATURALLY RAISED"


Thanks to a backlash of consumer letters from concerned consumers, the USDA has extended its public comment period on its proposed standard for meats labeled as "naturally raised". A 2007 Consumer Reports survey found that 83% of consumers assume a "naturally raised label means "it came from an animal raised in a natural environment." Yet the USDA's proposed standard is so weak, it would apply to a cloned animal raised in the confines of a factory farm, and fed a steady diet of genetically engineered grains.

Yum.

all this is secondary once the satellite lands on our heads!

people get all uppity just because they "may or may not" grow a second eyeball but it is all fun and games until a hulking peace of bacteria ridden metal whacks you square in the cranium.

[CowboyHippy]

thats why i buy meat from local farms. not fed organic corn but they are raised in good conditions and they have no problem not shooting them full for crap knowing that i will buy a whole or a half from them.

i dont know how organic feed farms (for livestock)do around other parts of the country but everyone that has tried it around here gets less than half the crop and its full of weeds. food plots do better but there is a ton of more work involved. yay for growing my own vegetables

[LIBRA]

I agree on that, yaaaa for homegrown!!!!