Once upon a time, not very long ago, you went to the grocery store — not a big box store, or a warehouse club or online — and bought “chicken.” Now the poultry section can be a confusing mish-mash of labels that may not mean what consumers think they mean, or may not mean anything at all.
As part of its huge story on bacteria and chicken breasts, our pals at Consumer Reports put together a helpful guide for shoppers who want to know what each of the labels on their chickens mean.
This chart at GreenerChoices.org (also run by Consumer Reports) provides even more detailed information on nearly two dozen different chicken labels. Here the ones that most of us will come up against while grocery shopping:
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Remember these terms are defined by the federal government's USDA. What happens is when Big Agri businesses sees small independent producers who have created a niche market that is cutting into their profits, they run to the feds and the bastardization party of definitions begins. Anything so called "natural", "organic" and so on, that you see on a label of one of the big companies is junk-pure garbage. The key is to know your farmer and buy directly from them.
1:11 Or grow your own!
Hastings Market. I shopped there for the first time last week. Bought some bacon there for the exact same price Wally World sells it for.
Ingredients? Pork, and smoke.
Talk about good....
Where is Hasting's Market? Eastern Shore Drive?
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