Today after class Kim and I went to Shoprite and walked around the isles looking for foods that have some of the label names that we are talking about in our project. We found ourselves standing in front of granola bars looking at Organic ones to see if they had the USDA sticker on them. For the most part, many of them did, however we were able to pick out the ones that didn't! We started taping a lot of the different food items in the grocery isles and then walked over to the meat section where we began looking at the different labels on chicken and meat. While we were there, a butcher happened to be walking out with fresh cut slices of meet. We decided to ask the butcher a few questions about the meat that he gets. Mr. Butcher informed us that he had "two minutes to spare" but after we began talking to him, our take on two minutes must have been diferrent because before we could get a second question in he slumped his way back into the back room to slice up some more meat. We didn't get a whole lot out of him, but he was cool looking.
7/18/2012 04:21:36 am
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) sticker is what most consumers look for when buying organic products in the supermarket. You can actually see this label on fruits, vegetables, processed foods, beverages and dairy. This totally means that the items contain at least 95% organic ingredients. As for the butcher experiences, Brittany, I just hope he knows what the USDA label means. It is important that sales employees need to know that what they’re selling is organic.