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sharps_xptoday at 3:54 PM5 repliesview on HN

I went to restaurant last night and asked where the chicken was sourced from and their response was "it's not the usual place we get chicken, but it's US Farm Raised Hatched", but I misinterpreted the her answer as a distributor name but then I realized even if I had a name, I probably couldn't figure out past that whether or not these chickens were pasture raised. If food labels are law, why doesn't this apply to where restaurants source their ingredients?


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maxsilvertoday at 4:11 PM

This, but unironically

https://youtu.be/G__PVLB8Nm4

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estearumtoday at 3:56 PM

Are food labels required to identify where they're sourced from? I don't think so?

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Miner49ertoday at 4:14 PM

Restaurants don't even have to track and disclose what allergens their food contains.

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ajmurmanntoday at 3:58 PM

I wonder how high the ongoing implementation cost of that would be and how that would affect choice between small, specialized and large, integrated suppliers. Sysco can probably hand me a single sheet I can use without any extra work.

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dyauspitrtoday at 4:06 PM

Seems like more bureaucracy that would make it even harder for new restaurants to get set up and the paperwork they would have to maintain in order to provide that information.

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