PETA is at it again. On June 27, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals submitted a petition to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service “urging” the agency to remove any labels that make claims as to the way animals are raised. The heart of the petition is that PETA believes no way of raising livestock is humane or appropriate, so to say anything to the contrary on food labels is wrong in the organization’s eyes. However, the petition gets more into the legalese by arguing that the FSIS doesn’t have the scope to inspect producers or confirm documentation, and thus what’s on food labels has the potential to be incorrect.
The petition claims, “By approving labels without confirming, or even the ability to confirm, the information supporting the claims on them, FSIS is allowing companies to make variable, unverifiable, and false claims, thereby also violating its statutory responsibility to ensure labels on meat products are not false or misleading. By gaining agency approval, companies can then charge a surplus for ‘humanely’ raised products, as the public is often willing to pay more for products they are led to believe were made without harming animals.”
A longtime thorn in the side of animal agriculture, PETA claims to be the largest animal rights organization in the world. But what exactly does PETA do for animals? Aside from being staunchly anti-agriculture, PETA also abhors domestication and ownership of cats and dogs. Repeat, they...
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