In business to make money, restaurants lie about food

Bought from local farms? Nope.

Non-GMO? Probably no.

No pesticides used? No proof.

Advertised veal is pork in one Gulfport restaurant.

“Old-timers like Gulfport’s La Cote Basque were dinged for advertising veal schnitzel dishes but having no veal in sight. ‘No packages commercially labeled veal (and) no veal invoices are present (but a) large volume of frozen pork chops and sliced pork’ were observed. Wholesale veal can cost three times as much as pork. For pork-eschewing Muslims and Jews: Surprise.”

http://www.tampabay.com/projects/2016/food/farm-to-fable/restaurants/

In the same neighborhood of “Was it grown locally?”, at a Kroger’s in Little Rock, Ark., a sign in the Produce Department said all food was bought from local farmers. I asked a man who was restocking lettuce, “Which local farm grew the pineapples?” His response: “What?” And the bananas and the oranges. The man said the ears of corn were from Mississippi. “I guess they (store managers) consider that local.”

The so-called local stuff will cost more than out-of-area produced. I don’t go to those restaurants. I am cheap.

Link at http://maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com/