[FREEBEACON] 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 Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, raisins.
"The action would clarify AMS grade standards by eliminating the use of the term 'midget,' while consistently using the term 'small' for raisins graded in that category," the USDA said in the proposed rule. "The industry has used the two grade terms interchangeably for years. The proposed grade standards would be applied uniformly by all handlers."
"These changes would modernize and clarify the standards by removing dual terminology for the same requirement," the agency said.