Our Labeling Laws Contain Some Huge Loopholes

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Our Labeling Laws Contain Some Huge Loopholes

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Hi All,

This is so unbelievable that it would be funny, if it didn't have such serious implications:

http://www.boston.com/business/articles ... rom_china/

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It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
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In China, "there are hundreds of thousands of these little farms," Doyle said. "They have small ponds. And over the ponds -- in not all cases, but in many cases -- they'll have chicken cages. It might be like 20,000 chickens in cages. The chicken feces is what feeds the shrimp."
UGH! Maybe that's what shrimp like to eat but UGH! UGH! UGH! I seriously doubt that's how chickens like to live--with 19,999 close friends in a suspended cage. Darn, this whole food discussion is getting depressing.

Glad we had lentil soup for dinner!
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Yuck--I have to agree, it IS very depressing. It's to the point where you just don't know what to eat any more. Makes you want to just go grow all your own food because you just don't trust whwere it comes from or what's in it.
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