More reason to produce your own food.

[DuckyBoys]

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Because it was before hatch, they tried to get away with it. This will keep happening, and we, the consumers, have to get smarter about it. Just because they say it is safe doesn't mean it is. This is why I don't use fluoride, sun screen, etc.

Yes, raise your own. Please people, raise your own.

Not only that - they are "technically" correct in saying much of what is printed in that article.

Bottom line is you cannot trust the government to regulate this stuff because during the rulemaking process everyone - including the producers - get to have a say in how the regulation is written.

There will always be a loophole.

 

[MommyM]

Bottom line is you cannot trust the government to regulate this stuff because during the rulemaking process everyone - including the producers - get to have a say in how the regulation is written.

There will always be a loophole.

Yes, there is a loophole for every kind of labeling! It makes me mad, my daughter has food allergies, and we bought 2 things now that said 'vegan' on it, both made her sick (she's allergic to milk protien) so, it wasn't 'vegan'!

All these things they do to our food is sickening. I wish we could move out to the country and live on a small farm and not have to buy too much from the stores. I guess that's only a dream though...

 

[Miltonchix]

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Why is it only a dream? Most of us on here have done so. I'm NOT wealthy. Far from it. ( I wish I were wealthy. I'd have all my out buildings up and my nice new tractor) I live in the sticks by choice and love it. And it cost me a LOT less to live/buy here than in any city. Only drawback now is, its so far to town, with the price of gas its getting VERY expensive to go to town for essentials. 40 mile round trip. All the more reason to become even more self sufficient.

 

[calee]

Stories like that make me glad that I'm moving towards growing my own everything and getting what I don't have from folks at the farmer's market who think the same way about food that I do. I get really freaked out by the thought of store-bought meats and produce. I've been buying either from farmer's markets or choosing organic-labeled as much as possible since I started college in 1989. However, one of the unfortunate side effects of organics gaining in popularity is that you have unethical folks looking for loopholes and pushing the letter of the law to the breaking point... so your store-bought foods aren't always as clean as the advertising claims. Grr.

 

[spatcher]

The labeling that disgusts me, that you can hardly read even if you are wearing glasses is the "injected with up to (fill n the percentage". Cant remember what it was I saw last week but it said "...32%". Unfreakin' believable!

 

[MommyM]

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Why is it only a dream? Most of us on here have done so. I'm NOT wealthy. Far from it. ( I wish I were wealthy. I'd have all my out buildings up and my nice new tractor) I live in the sticks by choice and love it. And it cost me a LOT less to live/buy here than in any city. Only drawback now is, its so far to town, with the price of gas its getting VERY expensive to go to town for essentials. 40 mile round trip. All the more reason to become even more self sufficient.

I would love to pack everything up and move out to the country. But...it's my husband who can't/won't. It's too much of a risk to him, he says 'and just what am I going to do for work?' 'how would we make a living, pay the bills etc....'
We have talked about buying a house that's residential agriculture zoned, but...that's soooo much money here, $450,000 (and that's 'cheap'!)
Honestly, I would loooove to give up city life for a self sufficent country life. Who knows, maybe one day I'll convince hubby of the same.
He was actually born and raised for his first 10 years in a village on a farm in Bulgaria. He even said we could buy a farm there for about 9 or $10,000. Maybe he's thinking of going back.

 

[Ron]

Gee, a big corporation LYING to us???? Unthinkable!!!!