Four Deceptive Marketing Tactics To Watch Out For When Buying Meat And Animal Byproducts

Not all beef, poultry, pork, and more, are produced equally. And if you haven’t come to this realization yet, the food industry is extremely deceptive and disingenuous: to wit the meat sector especially.

While there are other factors to look at, there are four good ones to be mindful of when purchasing meat and animal byproducts, as laid out in an Epoch Times article.

Wesley Shank for the Epoch times writes: ‘Misleading label claims are everywhere. They bombard you while walking down the grocery store aisles. They creep up on you while scanning a slick marketer’s website. They shock you when even your best friend recommends an industrial organic brand… “Hey, it’s a lot cheaper and they say it’s just as good!” -“Well… how do I know?”’

‘I admit this is the hard part because the big guys don’t want you to know! They spend tens of thousands of dollars to design the label and marketing claims to subtly deceive you without you knowing. And they’ve done a good job… many people are fooled. It’s time to pull back the shroud to expose the industrial reality that lies behind,’ Shank adds.

False Claims On The Label

The following is from Shank’s article:

1. Cage-Free, Free-Range, and even Pastured

The big guys describe their chickens flawlessly. Their websites show lovely pictures of birds walking in lush grass with sunshine streaming around them.

Yes, they do look… almost pastured… until you notice the sprawling industrial “CAFO barn” at the edge of one picture (in the video link).

That barn could be holding 10,000+ birds. Maybe 5% of them will venture outside during their short lives—but probably not.

Truly no comparison…

There is so much more to share and explain… I’ll devote an entire email to this as soon as possible.

And I didn’t even start on the same problem with CAFO Industrial Organic Dairy farms. More on that next week…

2. “Grass-fed,” Beef

Some “grass-fed” beef is actually fed a corn and soy based diet for the last 3-5 months of its life in a feedlot.

Sure doesn’t sound like grass-fed to me!

But like so many of these label claims, they have a kernel of truth mixed in to make a very tricky logic.

Most cattle are raised on grass for the first half of their lives before being grain-finished in a CAFO feedlot. So the industrial guys say…

“Of course I can label my beef as ‘grass-fed’!”

These cattle eat grass for part of their lives and the regulations don’t say how much grass they need to eat before I sell this as ‘grass-fed beef.’

Too bad for the customers if they don’t know what my ‘grass-fed’ means!”

I’m not making this up.

This is the logic that gets cheap “grass-fed” beef into supermarkets.

If you want truly grass-fed beef, you must ask for 100% grass-fed & grass-finished. And make sure it’s chemical-free too! Even grasses are commonly sprayed in the industrial world.

AUTHOR’S NOTE: A keyword to look for is “PASTURE-raised.” There are some ranchers that are feeding their cattle with grass pellets in a conventional feedlot style, which is no better than before. Moreover, if you can locate beef or meat that is labeled “REGENERATIVE,” look for that too.

3. Product of the USA Meat

Beef and Pork can be raised and slaughtered in Australia, New Zealand, Uruguay, Brazil, etc…

It’s then shipped over here to be cut into your supermarket steaks, roasts and burgers…

And legally labeled as “Product of the USA!”

Sad, but true.

Those cattle and pigs didn’t breath a single breath of United States air to merit this status. But shoppers will never know the difference.

A Stone Barns Center report says 75-80% of all “USA” grass-fed beef sold online or in grocery stores is imported from overseas.

It is shocking that United States label regulations allow this.

But in some ways, the next one is even crazier!

4. “Fresh,” and “Never-been-frozen,” Poultry

According to the USDA, poultry can be sold as “fresh” if it has never been below 26° F.

Excuse me, but isn’t 32° usually considered the freezing point?

And there’s another misleading claim. This one is especially important with turkey season here.

Poultry can be sold as “never been frozen” as long as it hasn’t been stored below 0° F. Read it in the USDA’s own words.

This. is. crazy.

“Never been frozen” says quite clearly that it, well… has never been frozen. I know from experience that chickens and turkeys at 10° are quite solidly frozen!

But not to the industrial guys. As long as last year’s turkey didn’t go below 0° they can thaw it out and sell it to unsuspecting families as a beautiful “never-been-frozen” Thanksgiving Turkey.

That’s the level of integrity you get with the Industrial Organic food system.

Industrial Organics are not all bad. They help cut down on our nation’s chemical and antibiotic use.

BUT.

The deceptive marketing claims are wrong. We need to pull back the Industrial Curtain layer by layer so everyone in this country can see what lies behind.

Please help spread the word.

It’s time more people wake up and start supporting small farms across the country again. Those farms are where the real, truly pastured organics all began.

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AUTHOR COMMENTARY

[1] When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee: [2] And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite. [3] Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.

Proverbs 23:1-3

In America, it is much more difficult to get great meats at the store. It’s certainly not impossible, as I have farmer’s market chain called Fresh Thyme near my house, which does sell regenerative beef and bison, wild boar, and high-quality venison and elk from New Zealand; along with some steak cuts imported from Australia. Australia and New Zealand have very high standards for raising their livestock, so the quality is usually very good.

It is also gets ridiculous when you have local farmers and butchers trying to sell you grain-finished beef, though they boast it is grass-fed. “Finished” is another word for “fattened.” Grain-finished fattens up the cow significantly, but it is not healthy for them, makes them fart up a storm, and ruins the necessary nutrient and fatty acid content. And yet these same people will say it tastes better. These are also same overweight, drugged-up Americans who eat nothing but processed food with fake flavors, so of course they would hate real food.

I was at that store about a month ago buying some of this regenerative beef, and an older married couple inquired about it to me. I explained the basic differences to them; and the man, who had a thousand-yard stare behind his face mask and looked quite unhealthy, along with his wife too who did the same, removed their masks to smirk at me, and gush about how delicious grain-finished was. Rather than waste my time, I just tried to end the conversation and tell them this kind is exponentially healthier, tastier, and helps restore the environment.

The old saying goes: You are what you eat.

Here is a list of some of the places you can get pasture-raised meats, though this list is far from definitive, as these are just some of the ones I am familiar with:

• US Wellness Meats
• The Family Cow
• Force of Nature
• Frankie’s Free Range Meats

But be warned: the globalist and elites are tirelessly working to get us off of the meats. Conventional will be the first to go and be inflated to the point of insanity.

[1] Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; [2] Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; [3] Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. [4] For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: [5] For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer. [6] If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained.

1 Timothy 4:1-6

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[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).

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