Like all the best con artists, Randy Constant was a charmer, hard not to like. Big hearted. Good listener. You’d never have guessed that the father of three, grandfather of five was a liar, cheat and serial philanderer who masterminded one of the biggest and longest-running frauds in the history of American agriculture.
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Iowa dairy farmer Francis Thicke believes that keeping calves with their mothers is the most humane and healthy way to start them off. He has also determined that weaning them after three to four months is the best practice. Around that age, he acknowledges with a chuckle, “they start turning into juvenile delinquents. They won’t come when their moms call. They run around in gangs. And they get high on grass.”
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Most grass-fed beef labeled “Product of U.S.A.” is actually imported from overseas.
But you wouldn't know that, thanks to a U.S. Department of Agriculture labeling policy.
It’s time to change that policy—for the sake of both consumers and U.S. producers of grass-fed and grass-finished beef.
TAKE ACTION: Tell Congress to Stop the Labeling Fraud! Support the U.S. Beef Integrity Act!
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When you see a “Product of U.S.A.” label on a package of meat you should be able to assume that the meat you’re looking at came from an animal raised and processed here in the U.S.
But chances are, the meat or some portion of it was actually imported from another country.
TAKE ACTION: Tell Congress to stop the labeling fraud! Support the U.S. Beef Integrity Act!
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The olive oil industry wants more government oversight. On Monday, the American Olive Oil Producers Association (AOOPA) formally requested the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) set and enforce quality standards for different kinds of olive oil. In a citizens’ petition, it argued that the current dearth of industry regulation is causing “widespread mislabeling of grades, adulteration, consumer mistrust, and unfair and unethical industry business practices.”
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A Vermont clean water activist has filed a lawsuit claiming Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Inc. and Unilever, its corporate parent, use misleading marketing to make consumers believe its farmers protect the environment and their animals.
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In the approach to next week’s USDA National Organic Standards Board meeting in Pittsburgh, October 23-25, an industry watchdog, OrganicEye, has formally asked the body to remove celery powder from the List of approved substances in organic food processing.
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Can you get cancer from “USDA Organic” “Uncured” hot dogs, bacon, ham and jerky with labels that say “No nitrates or nitrites except those naturally occurring in celery powder?”
Yes, you can.
Here’s why: When non-organic celery powder grown with nitrate fertilizer is used in certified organic processed meats it interacts with the protein in the meat to create the same carcinogenic substances found in non-organic hot dogs, bacon, ham and jerky made with synthetic nitrates or nitrites.
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When you buy certified organic processed meats (bacon, ham, salami, hot dogs, etc.) with the words “uncured” and “no nitrates” on the package, you assume you’re avoiding cancer-causing substances, right?
Not if the meat you buy also contains celery powder.
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Got organic milk?
There are plenty of reasons to drink it.
And there are lots of organic dairies producing—with real integrity—authentic nutrient-dense organic milk, including raw milk.
Unfortunately for those organic dairies and for consumers, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Organic Program (NOP) lets some very large dairies get—and keep—organic certification, even though they don’t play by the rules.
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