Cargill Introduces Antibiotic-Free Pork after Tyson's Antibiotic-Free Chicken Fiasco
Cargill recently introduced their Good Nature brand of all-natural, antibiotic free pork. The new pork line is sourced from Midwest family farm-raised hogs that are never administered antibiotics, growth stimulants or hormones. Cargill says it also maintains strict natural standards during processing of the new pork line, which is minimally processed and contains no artificial ingredients.
Let's hope this doesn't go the way of Tyson's "Antibiotic-free" Chicken which the USDA had to bitch slap after they found out Tyson's was in fact using antibiotics [read the story].
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julie said:
When they state their hogs are never given growth hormones, by implication, they are saying other producers do give their hogs growth hormones. The truth is there are no approved hormones for use in pigs. It's like saying "our hogs are never given strychnine"; so what? Neither are anyone else's.
This bit of disingenuous marketing makes me suspect their "state-of-the-art air-chilling process that positively influences color" (from the website) is really saying they add carbon dioxide to the packaging so the meat looks fresh for a longer period of time. The same thing Wal-Mart was criticized for using with their case-ready meat. And there is a big asterisk next to Natural on their website which leads you to "no artifical ingredients, minimally processed"; what is involved in the processing that cannot legally be called "natural"?
I'm not saying this isn't a good product (antibiotic use in livestock for anything other than treatment is not good), I'm just fascinated with the way their marketing taps into the current hysteria over food production; preying on false impressions and misinformation.