USDA releases voluntary — and castrated — guidelines for “Naturally Raised”

In the past, whenever you've seen "Naturally Raised" stamped on a shrink-wrapped pack of chicken breasts, it's meant zilch. Thankfully, the USDA is here to protect American consumers with new guidelines for using that content-less term. Kinda.

Ethicurean sums it up:

This article appears in Jan 14-20, 2009.