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USDA’s guidance on meat labeling: still voluntary, alas.

Food Politics

The USDA announces updated guidelines for substantiating claims on meat and poultry labels in these categories. Voluntary means that producers can voluntarily ignore such guidelines. Plenty of evidence suggests that many do.

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What’s in a Name? Food Labels, Explained

Modern Farmer

Do you know what “cage-free” means? How about “free range”? Cage Free: This term refers to poultry that is allowed to roam indoors without cages and have access to food and water. Photography by Lena Beck) Free Range: This means that the animal spends part of its time outside, uncaged.

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“HOLY CHICKEN”

The Lunatic Farmer

He consulted food experts, restaurant gurus throughout the process and the bottom line is that he opened his restaurant in Cleveland, Ohio using the interior walls to proclaim that the whole thing was fake, a charade. He hired a factory farmer in Alabama who had one house out of 15 empty to raise his 3,000 chickens for him.

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Top 6 Tips to Raise Healthy Layer Chickens

Farmbrite

The Quality of your Water: Water is used in most processes in the body; keeping normal temperature, getting rid of waste, adding cushion to joints. Mortality rates for layers in a normal poultry farm can be in the 1-5% range. Here are some different types of feed and supplements. Phosphorus. So, keeping clean water is important.

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Soil for Water Video Case Studies

ATTRA

A core belief for Michael and Bean Hollow Grassfed Farm is having and encouraging a healthy ecosystem where farm and land management reinforce natural processes because a farm cannot be healthy if the land is sick. They have also raised other livestock and poultry through the years.

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