On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 15:14:53 GMT, Rudy Canoza > wrote:
>Derek wrote:
>> On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 10:21:42 -0400, dh@. wrote:
>>>On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 14:08:58 +0100, Derek > wrote:
>>>
>>>>Claim and Standard:
>>>>[sbull] Grass Fed.--Grass, green or range pasture, or
>>>> forage shall be 80% or more of the primary energy
>>>> source throughout the animal's life cycle.
>>>>
>>>> Dated: December 20, 2002.
>>>> A.J. Yates,
>>>> Administrator, Agricultural Marketing Service.
>>>> [FR Doc. 02-32806 Filed 12-27-02; 8:45 am]
>>>>
>>>> BILLING CODE 3410-02-P]
>>>> http://www.ams.usda.gov/lsg/stand/ls0202.txt
>>>>
>>>>These "proposed minimum requirements mean that
>>>>grass fed beef can in fact be fed up to 80% grains for
>>>>60 days in a feedlot, just like any other steer, and still
>>>>qualify as grass fed beef.
>>>
>>>[...]
>>>
>>>>Grass fed beef, then, isn't exactly what it's name
>>>>implies,
>>>
>>> If you're not lying
>>
>> The evidence before you and which you'll ignore
>> at any cost to your already ruined integrity is from
>> U.S.D.A.
>
>False.

No, it's perfectly true. Go to the links and find
yourself on U.S.D.A.

>***No consensus standards currently exist*** for
>production or marketing claims related to meat and
>livestock products.

Yet you earlier claimed their was a standard, and that
that standard is followed. Why did you lie?

As things stand at the moment, according to U.S.D.A.

"Some segments of the livestock and meat industries
make claims to distinguish their products from
competing products and may request third-party
verification by USDA to increase the credibility of
their claims."
http://www.ams.usda.gov/lsg/stand/ls0202.txt

As we can plainly see, so-called grass fed beef
producers are lying and require "third-party
verification by USDA to increase the credibility
of their claims."