Posted on 06/11/2015 6:42:36 AM PDT by Enlightened1
WASHINGTON (AP) — Under threat of trade retaliation from Canada and Mexico, the House has voted to to repeal a law requiring country-of-origin labels on packages of beef, pork and poultry.
The World Trade Organization rejected a U.S. appeal last month, ruling the labels that say where animals were born, raised and slaughtered are discriminatory against the two U.S. border countries. Both have said they plan to ask the WTO for permission to impose billions of dollars in tariffs on American goods.
The House voted 300-131 to repeal labels that tell consumers what countries the meat is from — for example, "born in Canada, raised and slaughtered in the United States" or "born, raised and slaughtered in the United States."
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That's likely it.
And foreign interests have been outbidding the American voter and infesting our "news" organizations and other institutions for years.
It doesn't say they are outlawing labels. I always buy Texas first and then USA. So...get the label machines ready!
Its not the fed, its the WTO/Free Trade crap...
WTO court found US in violation had they not done this would have meant trade sanctions against the US etc...
WTO and NAFTA were just ways to implement global government discretely.
I could care less about the Unions. I do care that the World Trade Organization and Congress put the financial interests of other nations ahead of my choice as an American Consumer.
“where animals were born, raised and slaughtered are discriminatory against the two U.S. border countries.”
So....that’s the excuse/lie for everything nowadays. Oversensitivity and the placating of it is ruining this country.
Currently my grocery chain displays where seafood is caught/or farm raised....guess thats gotta stop too.
Serious? How is this in the People’s interest? Beef from China??? Yeah, THAT has to be good.
It seems to me they are representing the foreign countries and NOT...., We The People.
Yup.
Protection from disease, contamination, and parasites is wacist and discriminatory apparently.
More like dogs and cats.
Same here. May the labels on TX beef be bigger than Texas!
I think you are right on the money friend.
Doesn’t this only repeal mandatory country of origin labeling. Would it stop an American meat company from putting “All American” on its products (assuming they were indeed all American)? I don’t think so.
I personally avoid Chinese foodstuffs like the plague when I can determine origin, and I would definitely pay more for something guaranteed to not be Chinese. However, I don’t think manufacturers should be forced to label country of origin. That should be optional.
This country can’t fight a trade war in it’s weakened condition.
Although I really like the Thai shrimp my grocer sells, I am a little concerned that it may have something to do with my third testicle.............and why it’s bigger than my other two. :)
WTF? Did I awake this morning to reports from the Onion? The GOP has lost what it had left of it’s mind. THe Dims never had one and I guess the GOP thought “well that looks like fun” and lost theirs.
Look on the positive side: now we can buy cheap horse meat from Mexico disguised as beef.
Why not? We did it for a presidential candidate and look how well that worked out.
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