Belcampo mislabeled meat scandal

Isn’t the conspiracy theory something like coke wanted to switch to a cheaper classic formula but needed new coke to be a bridge so consumers wouldn’t outright notice

Found it in the wiki

Conspiracy theoriesEdit

The Coca-Cola Company’s apparently sudden reversal on New Coke led to conspiracy theories, including:

The putative switch was planned all along to cover the change from sugar-sweetened Coke to much less expensive HFCS, a theory that was supposedly given credence by the apparently different taste of Coke Classic when it first hit the market (the U.S. sugar trade association took out a full-page ad lambasting Coke for using HFCS in all bottling of the old formula when it was reintroduced).[11] In fact, Coca-Cola began allowing bottlers to remove up to half of the product’s cane sugar as early as 1980, five years before the introduction of New Coke. By the time the new formula was introduced, most bottlers had already sweetened Coca-Cola entirely with HFCS.[2]

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Anyway . My friend just brought by 7 1/2 pounds of bone in pork chops . I have had these before. They are super . Cost . A little over 17 dollars for all of them .This is one of the packs



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Grass fed, grass finished PORK?

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Talk about mislabeled meat. Maybe that’s why they sold it to you for $2.25 a pound.

For sure Robert . It’s called a employee discount .All products coming from the yreka plant are pennies on the dollar. You have no idea what your talking about.

You imagine there’s such thing as grass-fed, grass-finished pork?

They eat grubs worms etc . There are 100’s of thousands of acres of ranch land up here . I’ve seen pigs grazing , cattle , sheep , goats , lamas , chickens . The ranchers will follow these animals into the forest. You tell me .

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Grass-fed might be not the best description but pasture-raised pork captures it pretty well

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“Pastured” would be fine, but the label is a lie.

:+1:

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All’s well that ends well!

I wonder who’ll go into the old Bocanova space next?

True . The Yreka plant closed yesterday.

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I was a big fan of Belcampo’s mission and am sad it failed so spectacularly and ignominiously. But yeah, there’s really no coming back from that. RIP Belcampo burger.

I hope some other company with a more solid ethical backbone comes along and tries their hand at a similar business model.

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It was a doomed business model. A ranch, slaugterhouse, and wholesale operation make sense in the same company, but not the restaurants and butcher shops.

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Delete

https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/article/belcampo-meat-company-17634840.php

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Yikes. Those wheels of justice sure grind slow.