RE: Slaugherhouse
January 17, 2017 at 1:01 pm
(This post was last modified: January 17, 2017 at 1:09 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Outdoors? Nah. Organic has nothing to do with whether or not a chicken is free range. The crushing majority of organic eggs are produced in battery houses. All they have to do is change the feed. The only requirement, btw, of calling something free range is that you leave the battery house doors open. The chickens never have to step foot into the world...and they won't..provided the pile of food is in the battery house.
Meanwhile, free range egss have no requirement to be organic, and are best (and most often) produced in concert with "conventional" products.
Neither organic nor free range have any legal or marketing status with regards to humane products. The same slaughterhouses are used for both, with some pretty amusing things (and arguments between producers) taking place on that end.
Long story short, "tricky" isn't even the word. What could have and should have been a set of guidelines that gave cnsumers a measure of confidence in a product become nothing other than an elaborate maze with which to con a mark. But, ofc that was going to happen, when a novel class of product was created and there weren't enough people to fill the need. Producers who were already making the old product founds ways to avail themselves of the new product designation with as little modification to their then-current enterprise as possible. That the consumers of the product tell themselves little white lies about the product is not specifically the fault of the producers...but so long as they do, the producers aren't going to upset such a profitable applecart.
Meanwhile, free range egss have no requirement to be organic, and are best (and most often) produced in concert with "conventional" products.
Neither organic nor free range have any legal or marketing status with regards to humane products. The same slaughterhouses are used for both, with some pretty amusing things (and arguments between producers) taking place on that end.
Long story short, "tricky" isn't even the word. What could have and should have been a set of guidelines that gave cnsumers a measure of confidence in a product become nothing other than an elaborate maze with which to con a mark. But, ofc that was going to happen, when a novel class of product was created and there weren't enough people to fill the need. Producers who were already making the old product founds ways to avail themselves of the new product designation with as little modification to their then-current enterprise as possible. That the consumers of the product tell themselves little white lies about the product is not specifically the fault of the producers...but so long as they do, the producers aren't going to upset such a profitable applecart.
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