Controversy overProposed Rule to Allow Feedlots to Call Their Beef "Grass-Fed'

Why can't words mean what they're supposed to mean? why do we need to parse them out on labels like a lawyer in a civil action in court?

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Controversy Continues over USDA Proposed Rule to Allow Feedlots to Call Their Beef "Grass-Fed'

* Sustainable Food News, August 28, 2007
Straight to the Source

USDA Official Refutes Grass-Fed Label Claim
Sessions says voluntary naturally raised standards set for release this fall

Bill Sessions, assistant deputy administrator for the USDA's Agricultural
Marketing Service, refuted on Monday a report saying the agency would issue
voluntary standards for grass-fed livestock in the next few weeks.

Proposed grass-fed standards were released for public comment in May 2006
and would verify that livestock certified as grass-fed be given a diet that
is mother's milk or 99 percent grass, legumes and forage, which is anything
taken by browsing or grazing.

Grass-fed beef producers have waited years for the USDA to develop
certification standards and procedures, like the organic certification and
seal, to distinguish grass-fed animals from conventionally raised animals.
However, some believe that if the proposed standard is made law, consumers
could see feedlot beef labeled as grass-fed beef.

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The USDA should be able to understand the difference.

And the USDA is fully aware and is in fact fully complicit in the spread of that horror and abomination known as CAFOs. And our illustrious Democratically controlled House just passed a Farm bill that's going to keep shovelling money at the major operators of CAFOs w/ less oversight while allowing them to build even more. But don't worry, so far stench isn't classified as a pollutant so you don't hafta worry about that shitty smell. It's just a shitty smell. We'll see if the Senate has any gumption to clean it up but I don't hold much hope.

We've really perverted the food chain in just about every way possible, all for the sake of enriching corporations. It's disgusting.

I want to know what I am eating is sustainable, ethical, and just makes sense.
Everyone needs to eat as local as possible and force the changes that should
be made. But, this is the home of the gluttonous.

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If the public knew what really goes on in confined feedlots, there would be Hell to pay.

Or maybe not, for we are living in Fast-Food Nation.