when you take cattle to market they have to be tagged saying you didnt use any hormones on them. do you guys want to buy beef that has been poisoned? good thing there is a law for us poor ranchers selling beef for yall grocery shoppers!
I don't see anything about that on the USDA website. I see you can label it "hormone free" if you've demonstrated to inspectors it's indeed hormone free, but it's not a mandatory requirement. Again, I call BS on the USDA. "Free range" chicken only has to be shown to have outside access, whether that access is 24/7 or five minutes a day makes little difference to them. People assume that free range chicken lived a happy live in a beautiful meadow with puppies and rainbows but many "free range" farms are not happy places at all. Large businesses have been known to pay off inspectors so that everything is hunky dory when in reality it isn't.
But this isn't what this thread was meant to be about. It was to vent a little frustration towards the system in place that makes it relatively difficult to sell a bag of dried peppers, and mostly it was to seek comments on the "THIS PRODUCT NOT TO BE CONSUMED RAW" requirement which is something I've never seen on any dried pepper product.
I commend you for persevering and hope it pays off for you. I'm barely at the beginning and already finding it difficult.