Feds to Stop Calling Midget Raisins ‘Midget’
Removing word from U.S. standards after complaints from activist group
BY: Elizabeth Harrington
August 20, 2015 1:40 pm
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) issued a regulation on Thursday to stop referring to midget raisins as “midget” after an activist group called the term offensive.
The USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) issued the proposed rule, announcing the U.S. “Standards for Grades of Processed Raisins” would eliminate all five times the word midget is used. Midget has long been used to describe the differences in sizes of California raisins.