Do Not Be Fooled By Labels.
Recently I came across an article that changed the way I went grocery shopping. When I go grocery shopping, it feels like a game. The game is āhow many labels are telling me one thing but mean another thingā. This is a constant battle for me and now my grocery trips have gone from a 15-20 minute run through the store to about 1 hour of sifting through products and trying to figure which one is full of s***.
This article helped me figure out which labels are actually full of s***. Did you know āFree Runā actually doesnāt mean what you think it means or āHormone Freeā only applies to Beef?
FREE-RUN: Guess what? All meat chickens are free-run (only egg-laying hens are caged), making this label completely meaningless on chicken breasts or nuggets. Of course, just because meat chickens are in an open barn doesnāt mean theyāre not severely overcrowded, fed antibiotics and crappy slaughterhouse waste by-products. While unregulated, the term is still important on eggs; otherwise your eggs are laid by cruelly battery-caged hens.
HORMONE-FREE: All animals make hormones, so a more accurate term would be āraised with no added hormones.ā Chickens are never given hormones, so this term is only useful for beef.
Check out the website below and it will blow your mind:
http://www.nowtoronto.com/columns/ecoholic.cfm?content=183698
Great read.
More cool stuff here: http://hormonefreebeef.tumblr.com/post/131992213517/boloco-verde-farms
