Genetically Engineered Animals: On the table, but not on the label!?
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USDA Gives Final Rule on “Naturally Raised,” Hisses and Boos Resound
Despite significant protest from organizations (including ours) and many thousands of concerned individuals, the USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) has defined "naturally raised" to mean something far from it. Producers are now allowed to to label products "naturally raised" as long as the animals have been produced "entirely without growth promotants, antibiotics (except for ionophores used as coccidiostats for parasite control), and have never been fed animal by-products." Nowhere does this definition mention pasture (or even outdoor access!), genetic engineering,…
UK Study Finds Biodiverse Systems Produce Healthier, Better Tasting Meat
It turns out the old adage "You are what you eat" is true for livestock too. Researchers at the University of Exeter recently published a study which found that meat from animals grazed in quality, biodiverse systems is nutritionally superior to meat from intensive systems. Professor Henry Buller and his colleagues attributed this difference to the impact of the different plants on the digestive process and the growth and development of the animals. Laboratory analyses showed that lamb meat from…