Comments on: This Independence Day: Is Your Organic Hamburger Up to Snuff? http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2009/07/03/this-independence-day-is-your-organic-hamburger-up-to-snuff/ D.C. News, Politics, Media, Arts, and More Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:59:25 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 hourly 1 By: Fred http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2009/07/03/this-independence-day-is-your-organic-hamburger-up-to-snuff/comment-page-1/#comment-621932 Fred Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:08:14 +0000 http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/?p=26415#comment-621932 "Pressing as those questions may be they are hardly the only controversies surrounding “healthy” and “green” claims used to sell products that have swept into our supermarkets and discount stores in the last couple of years. "TerraChoice, an environmental marketing firm, has published a review of 2,219 consumer product claims. It found that 98 percent of the items had false or misleading advertisements on their labels." First, when the government does it, that's something. People EXPECT consumer product claims to be lies. They don't necessarily expect the USDA to be all about lying. I placed a fair amount of trust in that label, that's for sure. "Pressing as those questions may be they are hardly the only controversies surrounding “healthy” and “green” claims used to sell products that have swept into our supermarkets and discount stores in the last couple of years.

"TerraChoice, an environmental marketing firm, has published a review of 2,219 consumer product claims. It found that 98 percent of the items had false or misleading advertisements on their labels."

First, when the government does it, that's something. People EXPECT consumer product claims to be lies. They don't necessarily expect the USDA to be all about lying. I placed a fair amount of trust in that label, that's for sure.

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