Do you think food companies/FDA lie about the quality of their foods?

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Lately I’ve been noticing more meat in my grocery stores with claims of it being completely hormone and antibiotic free. I’ve also been seeing more and more random products claiming to being GMO free, artificial ingredient free, and more. 
While I think this is EXCELLENT, and I have been purchasing these products despite their higher price tags, I have been wondering if it’s all completely truthful. What exactly is stopping Tyson meats for example from adding antibiotics/hormones, claiming they don’t? What is stopping Golden apples from claiming not to be genetically modified, when they really are? Could this all be a front to hike prices? Do you think the FDA allows companies to omit certain unsavory ingredients on their nutrition labels? 
Yeah I know I sound like a crazy conspiracy theorist, lol. I don’t believe either way, just something I’ve been thinking about. What do you think?

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The food companies do. The FDA doesn't, but it doesn't really matter. They've been stripped of most of their governing power and what they do regulate is fairly limited in scope.

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Yeah, they sort of do. They can say something is fat free/sugar free if it contains less than .5 or something like that, but they make it up with high fructose corn syrup. They can sell you eggs and say it's gluten free, like of course it doesn't? People get fooled by stuff like that, don't know if its lying or not.  "Made with real fruit" could mean one ounce of real fruit juice. "100% orange" can mean 100% orange flavor. It's not really lying, but it's also not really saying the truth.

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Many of those labels are misleading and unregulated, so food companies can say whatever they want and get away with it. For instance, the FDA prohibits the use of growth hormones in milk, but companies still advertise "hormone-free" as if their competitors aren't. A company can also claim that they use "no artificial coloring". Red 40 is made from ground up bugs. Technically natural, but not exactly palatable.

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I can say that you would not want to eat an animal who has/had a bacterial infections as you would be eating contaminated meat. 
Animals that have had a round of antibiotics is keeps out of the food chain for a minimum of 21 days after the antibiotics are done so the system is flushed and to make sure the animal isn't still sick. So yes even "Antibiotic free" as still likely had a round of the animal had a bacterial infection.

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There are a lot of lies, misleading info, dirty bribe business surrounding food. In Europe a friend of mine in the agriculture industry said it would be cheaper and better quality, healthier beef to import from Argentina, but for some private business deals with companies the government doesn’t allow it. Even the chicken egg qualifications are very unfair. More expensive is “cage free” and the chickens who have access to “roam” outside, but the actual buildings they are in are crowded and they cannot find the tiny hole in the wall that leads to outside so most never even know they can leave. Yet it’s about 2X the price for nothing 🙄

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To an extent it’s bullshit because they will slap a GMO or Gluten free label on food that doesn’t even contain wheat or gluten. Their using labels to interest buyers but it’s false advertising they put it on foods that would never contain that ingredient in the first place but they know someone will be more interested in it. I would imagine they do the same with the antibiotic free meat, most of the time the animal treated with antibiotics can’t be used for meat anymore or has to go through a waiting period until it’s completely flushed out of their systems. Its all very misleading.

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No, but realistically the FDA only has so much power. 
A lot of labels also don’t have any legal meaning. Like there’s no regulation around the term “superfood” for example.

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I don't think they lie, you just have to make sure you read carefully. "All natural" doesn't legally mean anything so companies can use it however they please.

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The food companies are trying to kill us. Or at least not caring if they do. They promote the ingredients that are good but don’t mention that the rest of the ingredients are cancer causing. It’s marketing and it’s shady.

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i think they all just find ways to decieve ppl. Like claiming a product has no high fructose corn syrup. they just find a new similar engineered ingredient to replace it, so you dont recognize it on the label. Still free of corn syrup, but now its got something else that you dont know is just as bad. Just like they made everything sugar free by making artificial sweeteners, it took a while before people knew anything bad about those

Do you think food companies/FDA lie about the quality of their foods?

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