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The following was taken from Andrea Beaman's website (Monthly topic 11/07)
FREE RANGE
Eggs and poultry can be labeled "free-range" or "free-roaming" if they have access to the outdoors.
This does NOT mean the animals actually make it to the outside. "Access to the outdoors" could literally mean there
is a small window or door the size of Alice in Wonderlands tiny little door, and that the animals never actually go through
it.
PASTURE RAISED
Pasture raised means the animal has been raised on a pasture where they are able to eat grass, bugs, worms (and all the
other delicious things they are naturally designed to eat) and have access to fresh air, sunshine and other aspects of nature.
GRASS FED
This means the animal was fed grass. However, a "grass-fed" label doesn't mean the animal had access to the
outdoors (it could be eating cut grass indoors), or that it was fed grass it's entire life. Some grass-fed cattle are "grain-finished."
That means they were fed grains to fatten them up prior to slaughter. Read the label carefully!
NATURAL
The "Natural" label has been horribly abused and it can basically be used on anything. Natural products can
contain chemicals, pesticides, synthetic hormones, genetically modified organisms... not very natural at all.
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And from Roni Proter's show. She had an episode where she viewed the ingredients of several off the shelf shampoos. Seems
that 90 percent of the shampoos on the market have these harsh chemicals which are added to provide lather. These chemicals
are usually at the beginning of the ingredients list, meaning high content. Avoid Sodium Laureth Sulfate, Cocamide DEA, or
any of several similar chemicals. These chemicals are mostly known by SLSs and DEAs.
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