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  • From: Clansgian AT wmconnect.com
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Cage free eggs
  • Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:24:16 EST



> >> I thought that the "cage fee" was a great sales tactic.
>
> >It is. I'm always interested in how companies take an issue and turn
> it into a way to make profits.

Not only is it just a misleading sales tactic, all such words are for sale by
the USDA, for sale to the highest political contributor. Once the word is
bought and paid for, you can't use it no matter what its ordinary meaning
might
be.

If you sell eggs, you cannot, for example, call them "farm fresh" eggs. That
phrase was bought by the big egg producers and can only be applied to a farm
subscribing to the parameters of the "farm fresh" program.

Many times a USDA word is intentionally misleading. If you have a red ripe
tomato completely ripened on the vine, oozing with juice, and ready to fall
off
on its own accord, you cannot label it "vine ripe". Tomato producers bought
that phrase long ago and it refers to a hard green tomato that has a small
white star shaped spot at the blossom end when it is harvested.

All such USDA labels such as 'organic', 'cage free', 'free range', etc. are
mostly meaningless.

James




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