On Tuesday, Tyson maintained that its claim was truthful.
"If the claims are not substantiated, that's what we're looking for, to make sure the claims are truthful," Ms. Mandel said.
MillerCoors declined to respond to the challenge, deeming it "frivolous" and defending the claims as truthful or puffery.
The U.S.D.A.'s Food Safety Inspection Service "allows companies to demonstrate on their labels that they meet a third-party certifying organization's standards, provided that the third-party organization and the company can show that the claims are truthful, accurate and not misleading," Cathy Cochran, a U.S.D.A. spokeswoman, said in a statement.
Often, it raises new doubts about which side is innocent and which blameworthy, or whose claims are truthful.
For this reason, he also borrowed from Nietzsche a dismissive approach to absolutized claims to truthful knowledge, and a resultant rejection of all rational purism.
And it raises the question: how likely is this claim to be truthful?
A touch of anger entered Ghafoori's voice when I mentioned the doubt that existed, in some quarters of the Internet, over the family's status or, at least, their truthful claim to it.
Therefore we can expect to see a continuing flow of dishonest news stories and columns, mixed in with plenty of name-calling, all to discredit the truthful claim that trade has been a major factor undermining the living standards of the middle class.
The Department of Education also acted, the same day that the FTC filed its suit, informing DeVry that it would order the company to make only truthful claims to students regarding job placement, and, for five years, to submit its advertising claims in advance to an independent monitor.
