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In the United States, pre-packaged foods loaded with artificial ingredients and chemicals can make it onto grocery store shelves boasting the label “natural.”
Why? Because in America, there is no definition of “natural.”
This gray area has led consumer advocates to threaten lawsuit after lawsuit against big food giants, alleging that their claims are misleading and illegal.
“There are just too damn many ‘natural’ lawsuits,” said lawyer Stephen Gardner of the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), estimating there have been around 50 in the past decade.
“It only scratches the surfaces of the number of companies that are making these claims. We keep coming across them,” he said.
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Humanist_Activist
(7,670 posts)of food to scam the gullible.
Purveyor
(29,876 posts)Humanist_Activist
(7,670 posts)health food markets.
If you want to make a difference, go to a local farmers market, or at least have an emphasis in truly seasonal and local foods. Some things are local by their nature, such as milk, which, even with pasteurization, can only be shipped so far.
The fact is that there are no standards for these things, and frankly, outside of the environmental costs associated with it, I don't really care if the nitrates come from chicken shit or petroleum or natural gas, or what have you, I'm more interested in helping to develop sustainable means of growing food, not marketing gimmicks to cash in on people's ignorance of chemicals.
