You know Irishdude you bring up very interesting points and personally I believe it has a negative affect in our meat business. I can understand the difference in nomenclature ffrom one country to another because of different cultures however, when you see a certain piece of meat labeled with several different names then all that does is confuse the buyer (consumer). Stop and think about it. What the heck is a breakfast steak? It could be anything! Or a California roast (beef chuck). Or how about a London Broil which isn't even a cut of meat but a method of cooking, just to name a few. Its all hogwash and nobody does anything about it.

 Our governments spend billions of dollars in trying to un-confuse the consumer. In the U.K. they started back in 2013 with this ridicules color coding system that will cost the food industry billions of dollars to comply even thought the Public Health Minister says it is voluntary. So while our governments are spending billions of dollars to unconfused the consumer  the meat industry is confusing consumers hiding behind a creative word called; Merchandising! As far back as 1962 changes were put into place to keep an even playing field when it came to nomenclature, advertising, liability and food safety but it all falls short. I call it "economic adulteration" which is just as serious as product adulteration because it hits the consumers in the pocket book rather than in the belly.

Consumer Bill of Rights

In 1962, President John F. Kennedy presented a speech to the United States Congress in which he extolled four basic consumer rights -- later called, The Consumer Bill of Rights . In 1985 another 8 amendments were added but nothing on "economic adulteration".

What is a Consumer?

A consumer is defined as "someone who acquires goods or services for direct use or ownership rather than for resale or use in production and manufacturing. " Before the mid-twentieth century, consumers were without rights with regard to their interaction with products and producers. Consumers had little ground on which to defend themselves against faulty or defective products, or against misleading or deceptive advertising methods. By the 1950s, a movement called "consumerism" began pushing for increased rights and legal protection against malicious business practices. By the end of the decade, legal product liability had been established in which an aggrieved party need only prove injury by use of a product, rather than bearing the burden of proof of corporate negligence.

Don't get me wrong, our government does a great job in protecting consumers with meat inspection laws and the Food and Drug Administration. However, very little is done to protect consumers from unscrupulous practices which I label as "economic adulteration". There is a reason for this; Even though they live in packing and processing plants and have the power the begin to believe that they know the business but they don't and "economic adulteration"  happens right under their noses.

" I will leave you with this quote:  "An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.”