Monday, November 10, 2008

Natural Foods Not So Natural

Tyson Foods, the worlds largest meat processor and the United States second largest producer of chickens, has been ordered to stop using the labelling stating that their chicken is raised without antibiotics. Why? Well get this. In order to be able to use this labelling, and presumably benefit from additional sales to shoppers who are increasingly concerned about what is being done to ur food and when and where, Tyson foods have been injecting antibiotics into their chickens in ovio, in the egg, before they are hatched. So 'Raised Without Antibiotics' becomes applicable because they haven't hatched yet! WTF? It obviously affects their sales significant;y because they're fighting hard to get the order thrown out and the labelling regs rescinded.
But hey, you know you can trust these people right?