Sadly, I'm not surprised that Industrial Agriculture and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Federal Food Policy, are doing their best to obfuscate the issue and sling mud at organics. Food is an inelastic market, and the competition for the limited shares is quite ruthless.

This is rather ironic, since Big Organic nowadays is also more about profit and lies than philosophy; given corporate structure, it has to be. That's why I'm more interested in buying local than in officially-labeled "organic" stuff that's been flown in from far away and is thus drenched in petroleum.

Speaking of which, we're going to get a chest-freezer soon, and maybe I'll be able to get in on the action for your next critter. I was out-of-town when you announced Sir Loin, but given the interest, it looks like that wouldn't have made a difference.