Eco-Labels are often just lies

Like we’ve said before in other posts we must be very critical and careful when dealing with ecolabels. According to this article most labels have huge loopholes, for example, when tuna is ‘Dolphin safe’, it might be caught with bait mad of sea turtles or other endangered species. When chickens are the label ‘Free range’ it only means they had 'access' to the outdoors most of their lives, not that it really was outdoors most of their lives. It's clear that some standards of ecolabels are weak and easy adept for your own benefits. Another famous example is of course the practices of carbon offsets, where companies with a lot of greenhouse gas emissions pay to others to take over some of their not used emission rights. They buy “fresh air”. This doesn’t leads to a reduction of the greenhouse gas emissions. But companies can claim they make ‘cabonfree’ products.

http://www.naturalnews.com/028706_eco_products_marketing_fraud.html

Bert De Rycke