Posted on 01/04/2016 11:03:44 PM PST by Ray76
After more than a decade of wrangling, Congress repealed a labeling law last month that required retailers to include the animal's country of origin on packages of red meat.
Lawmakers said they had no choice but to get rid of the labels after the World Trade Organization repeatedly ruled against them. The WTO recently authorized Canada and Mexico, which had challenged the law, to begin more than $1 billion in economic retaliation against the United States.
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Actually it does not.
Store free to label the meat and I imagine will do so as there is incentive for it
I don’t think it precludes placing a sticker that says “ 100% USA raised BEEF!”
We raise and butcher our own here!
Best Beef you ever tasted!
I go out to the field, pick the cow have it sent to the butcher. Or I go to a friends farm, pick out the chickens and dress them myself. I know exactly what my meat is coming from.
>> Lawmakers said they had no choice but to get rid of the labels after the WTO repeatedly ruled against them...
WTF!
A side curiosity: is Tyson having China package its homegrown chicken?
Don’t Canadians and Mexicans want to know the origins of their meat?
It’s not good for Americans so of course our leaders support it.
How could this in any way be good for Americans or American producers? We don’t elect these clowns to do what is good for other nations.
This one really makes me mad. Using the same logic, the country of origin labels need to come off our fruits and vegetables too.
Agree 100%. It’s all about selling Americans down the river.
We had people die from contaminated American made peanut butter. Do those labels need to come off too? I would feed all our politicians peanut butter and all their food products from China, Mexico, and every rat hole around the world.
I refuse to buy foreign fruit. I certainly won’t buy foreign meats.
the law no longer REQUIRES country of origin labeling...
BUT
ANY meat product raised in the US that VOLUNTARILY labeled itself as from the US would see it as a MAJOR sales advantage
Congress needs to be repealed along with Obama.
Ah, yes...glorious China....the country who sent us dog food that was killing our dogs...and we’re supposed to accept food for humans from them?
They eat rats, lizards, dogs, etc over there, how much of that will wind up in “hamburger’?
If it ain’t labeled, I ain’t buying it...period.
Agree
Republicans pushed for this legislation. I can’t raise my own but I will now be looking for someone who does.
I would not buy any meat from outside of our borders and would not buy at a store that didn't label.
“I go out to the field, pick the cow have it sent to the butcher.”
Good luck with that. Finding a slaughter house that will
actually give you back the beef you originally sent in is
rare. Bought a Santa Gertrudis steer one year for slaughter
when I got it back the meet was no different than what I
was getting when I bought a Holstein steer from the dairy
farm. I’m sure the packing house owner and his wetback
employees enjoyed it. Best bet. Pick a cold day and do it yourself.
“They eat rats, lizards, dogs, etc over there,”
Funny, so does the president of the United States.
The meat industry doesn’t really want to do that. They would rather import the cheap stuff. This repeal was something they were quietly pulling for.
Got that right.
“100% US Beef” or I ain’t buyin’ it.
Tell your local market you want the labels.
Ever look at the bags of frozen fish?
Everything from China.
Guess I’ll have to start talking to my crazy neighbor. Nice grass fed beef and free range chickens & eggs.
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