RE: Slaugherhouse
January 17, 2017 at 1:39 pm
(This post was last modified: January 17, 2017 at 1:57 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I;m simply informing you that it doesn't. Organic is a designation that refers to agricultural inputs, not the status of the hens living accomodations. A battery farmed hen on NOP approved feed lays organic eggs. A battery farmed hen on NOP approved feed where the house doors are open lays organic, free range eggs.
Not saying that whomever you get your eggs from doesn;t run an organic free range operation that would in some way strike you as such...simply that neither label makes that claim in a legally explicit manner, and so cannot be trusted to be so for having the labels. Producers market themselves as organic and free range for having met legal guidelines, not the consumers expectations thereof.
Let me put this another way, a hen having "access" to the outdoors is like prisoners having "access" to a walk in the yard. Try to approach these regs from the POV of a massive middleman like purdue with a team of lawyers mining every line for ambiguity, and then a minor dash of practical consideration like whether or not you think the producers spend much time being chicken herders, or that the law even requires that they do so.
Not saying that whomever you get your eggs from doesn;t run an organic free range operation that would in some way strike you as such...simply that neither label makes that claim in a legally explicit manner, and so cannot be trusted to be so for having the labels. Producers market themselves as organic and free range for having met legal guidelines, not the consumers expectations thereof.
Let me put this another way, a hen having "access" to the outdoors is like prisoners having "access" to a walk in the yard. Try to approach these regs from the POV of a massive middleman like purdue with a team of lawyers mining every line for ambiguity, and then a minor dash of practical consideration like whether or not you think the producers spend much time being chicken herders, or that the law even requires that they do so.
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