A new food label--Certified Transitional

[bluemingidiot]

Under the USDA rules to become a certified organic farm, a conventional farm has to spend three years in transition. During that period, the farmer must institute organic practices, behave like an organic grower, but he or she cannot sell the produce as organic.

Certified Transitional is a new process in which a third party certification company will monitor and approve farms that are transitioning from conventional to organic.

Farmers will still have to pay the certification company to become certified transitional, though Forbes reports they'll pay half what it costs to become certified organic.

www.cnbc.com/2016/05/18/meet-the-new-food-label-certified-transitional-huh.html

[Awnry Abe]

Certified Bureaucratic Racket

[bluemingidiot]

Maybe the government should certify transgenders--if a person needs to have confidence that Brussel sprouts are truly what they purport to be, it seems that a person needs to have confidence that the individual in the restroom with them is truly what they purport to be.

[freelove]

But it is too expensive and problematic to include "may contain GMO ingredients" on the label.