Spam goes organic

The makers of Spam have found a way to get some of their food products into organic and natural food retailers that shunned the company in the past. They have created a new line of Spam with a different name 'Natural Choice' and retailers are suddenly interested.

Organic Spam sounds like a tough sell to me but I have noticed that if you put the word 'organic' or 'natural' or 'free range' on something and charge twice the price it makes certain people happy.

The word 'natural' has no meaning at present in North America and governments are trying to get rid of it. Natural beef, for example, simply means there was no use of antiboitics or growth hormones but ignores the fact that the same cow got dewormed and deloused with chemicals and ate whatever it got fed. Or it could mean it was fed on natural products like grass and lived on the range but still got antibiotics and hormones. It's a word out of control.

The word 'free range' means that the available space for a chicken or turkey must be twice as much as the minimum allowed in 'factory farms', which means 22 square inches for chickens. As a matter of note, chickens left to free range inside a barn mass together and use up way less than the mandatory 22 inches and even less than the 11 inches, meaning that free range farms are actually worse than factory farms for chicken comfort and health. But at least they're out of those awful cages and doing what chickens like to do.

The word 'organic', unlike the rest, actually has some teeth. Governments are trying to enforce the meaning to encompass non use of anything synthetic in the production of food, which is close to what people are looking for.

This makes it easy to manufacture organic Spam. It comes from animals (not sure what kinds) considered organically rasied. Then it is manufactured, processed and extruded to death until it is Spam. Maybe a little less wholesome than the organic folk might want but it's organic. And worth twice the price I'm sure.

Natural Choice Spam.......coming soon to a grocer near you.

Pa