The sign says "certified organic" not "100% certified organic."

HINT: Either way, you're still eating slaughtered corpses.

It doesn't disprove Bill the Butcher's defense if you're a wienie lawyer. If you're just a regular person who wants to buy some meat without having to worry about being mislead, then it looks pretty bad. Maybe not exactly lying, but close enough. If you're going to represent yourself as being a fancy place that cares about where the meat comes from, then scrupulous honesty is really your best policy, not weaselly vagueness.

Balderdash-Right on! BTB is trying to take advantage of its customers with this kind of behavior. I fell for it one time, before the Stranger's excellent article. But even that one time, I was confused by a response I got about a product. A response from the man himself at the Wville store. Now I know it wasn't me, it was him. And I think it was him being deliberately obscure. Well, my $$ will be going elsewhere. I hope the organic and/or small sustainable focused farms in this state shun this bastard. And, Stranger reporter, is there some fraud going on here? I mean letter-of-the-law fraud? That can be investigated by, I don't know, the AG's office?

It's like Twelve Baskets Catering, who claims to buy locally grown and harvested (hello Sysco and FSA?) and mill their own organic flour (for their FSA-made desserts?) - all lies, trying to make a buck by fooling consumers. Funny that the churchy people who run the place have no qualms about lying to their customers.

Organic Fetishistas are full of 100% certified organic, natural, grass fed, local Shit.

Buffoony Jean, you're eating dead animals. As in slaughtered, dead, rotting flesh. The fact that you're pitching a hissy fit over the "organic" state of this dead flesh is really fucking hilarious. Keep it up, girl. It's good comedy.

"I think this level of sniping is unnecessary. It's clear what they want to do and be, it's clear they're working towards that, and all you're doing is giving them shit while they try to get there. This is classic leftist behavior: scream and rant at our closest allies instead of our actual enemies. I'll happily shop at Bill the Butcher."

You are quite possibly insane, or at the very least a shill.

What a scam, has anybody turned this guy into the Washington State Organic Program for labelling fraud?
"The WSDA Organic Food Program's mission is to protect consumers and support the development of the organic industry by ensuring the integrity of organic products."
For more information, e-mail us or call (360) 902-1805.
organic@agr.wa.gov
Martin Beagle Organic Program Manager 360-902-1924
Brenda Book Organic Certification Manager 360-902-2090

There's always Organic To Go whose bread products come from Franz.

Franz makes great products with no high fructose corn syrup but they don't make anything ORGANIC.

Get over it people, 95% of places that claim to be organic are pulling the same punches. Oh, that and there is little scientific evidence that eating organic is any healthier.

I am disgusted by Bill the Butcher's shameless deceit and trickery. We should have seen it coming when a chain of 3 to 5 stores opened up in a short time frame, and yet its name suggests some guy in overalls who's just your friendly neighborhood butcher. Right.

I will never step foot in that store again, and will personally see to it that everyone I know hears about their false claims and back-peddling.

Last I heard, calling something organic, when it is not, is illegal. Even if you don't add the words certified - did something change with the federal law??

I was shocked when I read in the Bill the Butcher shop who some of the "local producers" are who meet their high standards. I personally know some of these producers and it is a big stretch to claim that any meat from these producers meets their own "Bill the Butcher Natural" meat specification. While it could be very true that most of the producers listed in book available at the local shops are legit (I know some that are) and meet the Bill the Butcher Natural specification it is very clear that not all the producers who are listed meet this.

Their is a very big difference in raising livestock in a sustainable model that provides care, compassion and a stress free life to a model in which livestock are raised in confinement or crowed areas who are sick, fed anything but fresh grass or a good quality forage, not checked up on regularly, have no clean place to lie down or any option of drinking fresh clean water, who have been brought into the area on a high stress trip for a short time in a overcrowded trailer driven from near by states where they have been purchased as culls at non local farms our even worse livestock auction houses.

We should ask Bill about his state of the art tracking system. Is it one that insures that while the animal is alive it is properly cared for? How can we be assured that the meat we are buying at his local shops is one that is raised in a stress free sustainable model.

What wholesale house are they really buying thier meat from ? maybe the same one QFC uses
Would be interesting if that farmer was a large or small wholesaler