Country of origin requirement for beef repealed
By Nancy Fink Huehnergarth, Forbes
That next steak or pork chop you buy at the grocery store could be from Mexico and beyond, but you’ll never know it.
On Friday, Congress repealed the country-of-origin-labeling rule (COOL) on beef and pork after the World Trade Organization (WTO) imposed $1 billion in retaliatory import tariffs against United States if the rule was not overturned. The repeal was part of the omnibus spending bill signed by President Obama on Friday.
COOL mandates labels on packaging that reveal the country (or countries) where the meat animal was born, raised and slaughtered. While beef and pork will no longer have to comply with COOL rules, chicken and lamb must still be labeled.
“Soylent Beef”…it’s what’s for dinner! Funny thing is, you may well wiund up with a product that is healthier, better inspected and more humanely treated than the crap that the Americun Beef and Pork industries plop onto your plate. Then again, Carghill and ConAgra do operate globally…