More retailers are being asked to use ‘reared without GM’ labels

European supermarkets are coming under NGO pressure to label produce from animals reared on non-GMO feed, following a move from Carrefour.
Read article at foodnavigator.com

EU GMO-labelling laws fail consumers

France is poised to become the latest in a growing trend of European countries to introduce GMO-free labels for food in a bid to counter weaker EU standards and to compensate for a loophole in European labelling laws. Currently, EU labelling laws mean meat, dairy and eggs from animals fed with genetically modified animal feed do not have to be labelled.
Read article on the Friends of the Earth Europe website

I've been watching "Jamie Saves Our Bacon" on Channel 4 - a powerful programme

I've been watching Jamie on Channel 4 - http://www.channel4.com/food/on-tv/jamie-oliver/jamie-saves-our-bacon/index.html - This was a powerful plea for pigs to be farmed more compassionately. Currently many pigs in Europe, particularly the sows, endure very long periods of cruel restriction, unnaturally confined in uncomfortable pens.

If you click on the link and learn more about the matter, I feel sure you will be moved to do what you can to ameliorate the lives of the pigs. Jamie is asking us to buy British pork, because pig welfare standards here are higher, and he is asking us to buy shoulder of pork, belly of pork and pork neck fillet, because buying these cuts, which at present are less popular cuts, will help hard-pressed British pig farmers. There are recipes for these cuts on the Channel 4 website.

He is also pressing the powers that be to put better labelling on packs of pork so that consumers can be sure about the country of origin of the pork and in particular, the bacon.

(He also showed us a distasteful practice of some pork dealers - that of injecting water and phosphates into pig meat, so that you could be buying a pack of pork that is 89% pork and 11% water and phosphates...)o: - Include me out of pork like that!)

Much of the food industry's food labelling in Britain has been criticised as misleading by the National Heart Forum.

Much of the food industry's food labelling has been criticised as misleading by the National Heart Forum

Extracts:

"The NHF report criticised some food companies for misleading consumers in the way information under the industry-backed scheme was presented. It said the information was "too complex" and often confused people rather than helped them."

"Jane Landon, the deputy chief executive of the National Heart Forum, criticised the industry's scheme, warning many consumers were not aware that GDAs were a "limit, not a target". She said: "This report shows some manufacturers and retailers are failing their customers by using nutritional food labels which are overly complex.

"Some even appear to be manipulating the front-of-pack label to promote their products rather than to inform their customers.

"Without reading the small print on the back of the packet it is not clear that for fat, saturated fat, sugar and salt these figures represent limits rather than targets."

It's so weird. - The one piece of information that always seems to be present on packs is the information about calorie content. - Yet this is the ONLY piece of information that is completely irrelevant, since obesity is not caused by eating too many calories! - If the calorie information were to be abandoned, there would be more room for the much more important salt/sodium content to be prominently displayed.

People can read the truth in my blog. - See Do you believe that obesity is caused by over-eating - by consuming too many calories? - I invite you to consider the evidence and think again!

Obesity is not caused by eating too much. - It is caused/initiated by fluid retention. - Dieting is potentially harmful.
Lose weight by eating less salt! - Go on! - Try it! - See my website http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/
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