Re: Mis-labelling livestock in health food stores

Greg & Lei Gunthorp (hey4hogs@kuntrynet.com)
Sun, 13 Jun 1999 18:44:25 -0500

American consumers accept most anything. We are in the dark ages when it
comes to information about our food supply. The agriculture industry in
this country has way too much power and so far the sustainable ag community
is making very few chinks in its armour. We aren't even 6 months into
allowing meat to be labelled organic in this country! Short of buying
organic, I'm not sure a person would have the slightest idea on country of
origin let alone farm or whether it contains gmo's, hormones, etc.
Best wishes,
Greg

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> From: kathryn marsh <kmarsh@iol.ie>
> To: Greg & Lei Gunthorp <hey4hogs@kuntrynet.com>
> Subject: Re: Mis-labelling livestock in health food stores
> Date: Sunday, June 13, 1999 4:51 PM
>
> >
> > If anyone can get federal plant inspection numbers the next time they
are
> >in one of the health food chains I would appreciate it. From what I
have
> >heard they are very reluctant to show customers the boxes with the
federal
> >inspection label. The federal inspection label identifies the plant.
> >Anyone with a list of federal processing plants can identify where
animals
> >came from by looking at the inspection number.
> >
> Greg
>
> are you seriously saying that in the US the consumer doesn't have the
right
> to know who the producer of his meat is? All meat here in Ireland is
> traceable to source - you just ask the store - sometimes they can tell
you
> straight away, sometimes it takes a day or two, but all meat is directly
> traceable to the farm of origin from the consumer packaging - what on
earth
> are american consumers willing to accept?
>
> kathryn
>

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