America and its love for false labeling / by kevin murray

In America, it seems like the government doesn’t want to get in the way of those who sell food items and the potential profit from those items, even when this is being sold under apparent false pretenses, by pretending to be one thing, when in reality it really is another thing.  There are, for instance, plenty of foods that contain lots of sugar or additives to that food but are labeled as being wholesome or advertised explicitly as being good for the body, when in reality, this is not fundamentally true.  Then there are also those items being sold that allege that they are one thing when they clearly are another.  For instance, there is bacon, which comes from the belly or sides of a pig, and therefore is correctly labeled as being pork bacon because that is what it really is; whereas, on the same shelves often near pork bacon, is something known as turkey bacon.  In reality, turkey bacon does not come from the belly or sides of a turkey, but is in actuality, made up of ground-up or chopped turkey poultry, that is processed into looking like bacon, sold as if it is bacon, and labeled as bacon, but it is not bacon.

 So too, many restaurants sell extensively and are well known for their boneless wings, which to a certain degree, might make sense, because working your way around the bones of a wing, can be cumbersome or annoying for some people, so processing a chicken wing in a way, in which the bone is removed, and thereby it becomes boneless, seems genius.  However, that isn’t what boneless wings are, for boneless wings are made out of chicken breast poultry that has been cut into small pieces, and then advertised as being “boneless wings” when they aren’t wing poultry, at all.

 Additionally, there are many people who enjoy a glass of champagne, believing that what they are imbibing really is champagne, and when that champagne comes from the Champagne region of France, they are correct in their assertion that they are drinking real champagne.  However, the truth of the matter is that there are plenty of bottles in America that are labeled as champagne, that are not produced in the Champagne region of France, whatsoever, but are actually created and manufactured in the United States of America, but somehow are able to label their sparkling wine as champagne, though in reality, since it is not from the Champagne region of France this is actually not champagne, but is instead, sparkling wine.

 All of the above are examples of false labeling permitted in America, which seems to stipulate to the American people, that it is okay by the governance of this nation to have false labeling, because apparently it is good for the business of America, and one thing that you can say about America, is apparently what is good for American business, must be good for Americans, though, in truth, it really is mainly good for those businesses that profit from such.