What is really what it says it is? Organic foods? Surely companies can't lie to you and tell you what you want to hear to buy their product... or can they? Everyday you see the cans on the shelf "NOT injected with growth hormone...." or "Compare to ..." It seems the only way anyone can sell a product is by lying or publicly bashing another company. Oh but wait! its not lying! It's a sale tactic, you give the buyer what they want to hear, that if they use your product they will begin to live the healthy lives there parents wanted them to. Seems something like this should be illegal, or in-just, buts it's not.

Most describe it as "Stretching the truth" or "Sugar coating it" but what is really going on is good old fashion false advertising. Michael Pollan identified this travesty in chapter nine and tried to explain what one must do to get ALL the facts in what is really used to make that organic granola bar. Of all the labels on those food products you find little stories that take you on a personal adventure as to how that food was made, however, I find it hard to believe that farmers really take all the time and effort to produce bright red, fat, plump, delicious tomatoes, without using a drop of some sort of growth hormone.

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