Albany Jane is hosting Thanksgiving for her family this year -- so she did some local comparison price shopping for fresh, all-natural turkeys.
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Hm. I'm glad that in a couple of cases A-Jane tried to get information on what "natural" meant in each case but that's unfortunately hard to do thoroughly. Some terms have no legal definition and even those that do are usually misinterpreted by the buying public... "free range" is a great example, which sounds like the poultry come and go as they please in a hilly, lush, verdant field with their friends, the unicorns and leprechauns. Happy birds.
In reality, the only requirement for free range poultry is that the birds must be aloowed access to the outdoors for at least half their lives. This access can be through a small door to an enclosed dirt pen; they're still "free range".
Yes, really.
Even better: there's no legal, USDA-enforceable definition of free range for chicken eggs. Justify it however you want, factory farms!
Oh, and if someone tells your their beef is free range, run. The USDA doesn't recognize the term for anything but poultry. Basically, I hate to put it this way (lie), but hippies, someone is making bank off'a you.
... said B on Nov 17, 2009 at 10:17 AM | link