Organic food

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It's NOT a big freezer? We also have a second freezer in our basement. There's no way it would hold 280 pounds of meat. It's a mid-size freezer, standard width, about 5 feet high. Maybe if you really packed it you could fit 100 pounds in it.

 

One of our friends owns a farm and is running a little thing amongst the circle that you pay for a pig essentially, he'll raise it, fatten it and have it slaughtered then you get half. Not sure how butchered it is, Kev was interested at one point though he also doesn't like pork...

I'm not really one for kitchen butchery, I don't think I could even pluck a bird to be honest which is quite poor but common in england outside of professional cooks and hunter/farmers.

 

All i know is that here in Canada, there is no overarching authority that performs quality control regarding "organic" labels on food. In other words, the meat you buy in the supermarket has been subjected to government inspection by our version of the FDA. However, anything with the "organic" label is not regulated by any organization, government or otherwise. Which means that anyone can just slap a sticker on their produce and jack the price up, and since there's no legal definition of the word, it's not fraud.

Bottom line: too much chance of being ripped off, so I'm out. I'll buy the cheaper stuff and put the money I save toward a food bank for the poor.

 

LKD, if the state organization rates everything, doesn't this mean it also rates organic foods - just not how "organic" they are?

 

In the UK (and Ireland) the laws about what can be labelled organic are monitored by private certification bodies. These bodies aren't very powerful, we'd be much bigger than them. But the major supermarkets like Asda (Walmart), Sainsburys, Tesco and so on do not want the bad publicity that would come if they were found to be selling mislabelled food whether they knew or not. What these guys say goes and so the organic bodies know doing a proper job for them is what counts and not pandering to the people who pay them. The organic bodies will do a full audit each year of our plant to assess our sourcing and segregation of organic food within the warehouse. They also do spot checks of fruit from supermarkets. Whatever about the local farmers if fruit is labelled organic in a UK supermarket I'd be very surprised if it isn't. This probably applies to other countries as well. Companies mightn't be bothered about breaking the law but they do care about bad publicity.

 

I'd prefer to buy from farmers if possible and skip the big industry.