Obama Regulators Want To Let Factory Farms Label Their Meat ‘Humanely Raised’

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4. Agreed

Agriculture, both plant and animal based, are plagued with terms originally intended to mean well turned into a marketing scheme. For example, organic all natural sea salt? Really? It's a rock, essentially. All natural can mean all kinds of things and people think anything all natural is good wholesome and safe, like anthrax, poison ivy, it's all natural! Hormone free labels in chicken is just silly because all hormone use in poultry is banned by the USDA. They're all hormone free. GMO can be anything from insect resistant seed genetically modified in a lab to two species of corn that were naturally cross pollinated. Cage free is misleading as "better" but those hens beat the crap out of each other so bad they're less hurt in a cage. Don't trust the labels. Do research on the companies that produce your food. Think you're making a diffence eating soy tofu instead of meat, think again. All that soy has a by product that contains a large amount of protein that isn't just thrown away, it goes into livestock feed to support the animal husbandry industry. Livestock producers get cheap feed through vegans eating soy and people using ethanol. Nonetheless, it was probably fertilized using manure from a dairy. Did you know diary cows in Florida eat orange peels? People fail to realize just how interconnected and complex agriculture is, which makes overall labeling of products difficult. Know where your food comes from and how it's produced.