Here's more organic facts and what other terms mean legally:
Organic fruits and vegetables were grown without synthetic pesticides, synthetic fertilizers or sewage slude and haven't been genetically engineered and irradiated.
Organic beef and chicken come from animals that weren't the offspring of cloned animals. They were raised on 100% organic feed, were never given growth hormones, antibiotics or other drugs and their meat was never irradiated.
Organic milk comes from animals that, for at least the past 12 months, were fed 100% organic feed and weren't given antibiotics or growth homones like rBST. This organic fact alone gets me to drink organic milk.
Organic eggs come from hens that were fed 100% organic feed and were never given growth hormones or antibiotics.
Organic seafood doesn't mean a thing, since USDA hasn't defined the term.
Cage-free eggs come from hens that were not confined to cages and that may or may not have had access to the outdoors. They're not necessarily organic.
Free range or free roaming poultry have access to the outdoors, but for no minimum time. They're not necessarily organic. Cage-free poultry doesn't mean anything, since most chickens grown for meat are kept indoors (but cage-free) until they're transported to slaughter.
No hormones administered can appear on beef labels if the producer can document that the animals were raised without hormones.
Hormone-free is an illegal claim, since all animals produce their own hormones.
No antibiotics added can appear on a label if the producer can document that the animals were raised without antibiotics.
Natural (or All Natural) meat or poultry products contain "no artificial ingredients and are no more than minimally processed." They're not necessarily organic, though some supermarkets try to make them appear to be.
Source: www.live-the-organic-life.com
