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Say Good-Bye To ‘COOL’: Congress Repeals Country-Of-Origin Meat Labeling Rule
huffingtonpost.com ^ | December 21, 2015 | Samantha Cowan

Posted on 12/21/2015 7:12:40 AM PST by ilovesarah2012

Thanks to a label that reads “Product of the USA,” consumers have been able to find out a package of steaks or pork chops in the freezer section at their local grocery store came from America. But soon meat lovers will be hard-pressed to figure out whether the animals on their dinner plates were raised and slaughtered—in the States or halfway around the world.

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1 posted on 12/21/2015 7:12:40 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: ilovesarah2012

With beef from Argentina, you can usually see where the Jockey hit the animal.


2 posted on 12/21/2015 7:14:40 AM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (Get Ready)
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To: ilovesarah2012

Smart American producers who continue to label their products as being American in origin will continue to get my business.


3 posted on 12/21/2015 7:17:36 AM PST by cripplecreek (Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
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To: cripplecreek
Smart American producers who continue to label their products as being American in origin will continue to get my business.

Same here.

4 posted on 12/21/2015 7:18:17 AM PST by pgkdan (But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: ilovesarah2012

From 2013

Meat Industry Sues USDA, Saying Country-of-Origin Label Leads to Higher Costs

American meat groups have filed suit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture over its country-of-origin labeling rule, saying it does not address food safety and will lead to higher costs for consumers while bankrupting processing companies.

Eight groups representing the American and Canadian meat industries filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to block implementation of a mandatory country-of-origin labeling (COOL) rule. The rule, finalized by the USDA in May 2013, requires origin declaration for three meat production steps: born, raised and slaughtered. It also eliminates the ability to commingle products, which requires segregation of livestock and products in the supply chain.

On Thursday, the American Meat Institute, one of the plaintiffs, responded to claims that labels would help people make safe choices by knowing the origin of their food.

“At AMI food safety is our number one priority, but COOL doesn’t offer any food safety information to consumers,” the group said on its website. “USDA has made it very clear that COOL is not a food safety program, writing in 2009, ‘The COOL program is not a food safety program” and “COOL is a retail labeling program and as such does not provide a basis for addressing food safety’.”

The USDA has said the labeling requirement is a “consumer information program.”

Meat and poultry companies produce 90 billion pounds of products a year and 99.99 percent of these are consumed safely, the American Meat Institute says. The AMI says it is the nation’s oldest and largest trade association representing packers and processors of beef, pork, lamb, veal, turkey, and processed meat products. Its member companies account for more than 90 percent of U.S. output of these products, the group says.

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/meat-industry-country-origin-label-creates-higher-costs/story?id=19637859

It is never about what consumers want.


5 posted on 12/21/2015 7:18:45 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: ilovesarah2012

Time to start visiting your local farmer or rancher.


6 posted on 12/21/2015 7:18:50 AM PST by EBH ( I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction. ~~ Obama)
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To: ilovesarah2012

This is absolute BS. I want to know if my food was produced in a Mexican slum, China, India, or in an inspected USDA facility in the USA.

Our politicians have sold this nation down the river.


7 posted on 12/21/2015 7:19:30 AM PST by boycott (--)
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To: ilovesarah2012

Does this mean that meat growers/processors are prohibited from labeling their meat as made in the US? I would certainly choose to buy something that is “home made”.


8 posted on 12/21/2015 7:21:07 AM PST by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: ilovesarah2012
EASY solution to this problem.

Buy from the BEST:

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9 posted on 12/21/2015 7:22:19 AM PST by mkjessup (It's not 'Happy Kwanza' or 'Happy Holidays', it is MERRY CHRISTMAS!! CHRIST-MAS, get it?!?)
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To: ilovesarah2012

Buy local. Support your local farmers and ranchers whenever possible - try the farmers markets if you can.


10 posted on 12/21/2015 7:22:21 AM PST by datura (Proud Infidel)
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To: pgkdan

Its what I like about Meijer stores. They sell a lot of local produce.


11 posted on 12/21/2015 7:23:58 AM PST by cripplecreek (Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
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To: ilovesarah2012

I’ll just have to get back into the beef business.I’m sure that somebody would buy my grass fed steers.


12 posted on 12/21/2015 7:24:33 AM PST by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: ilovesarah2012

If we can’t see where its from it sits on the shelf. I am going to start buying meat from a local guy who raises his own and processes it.


13 posted on 12/21/2015 7:25:17 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: mkjessup

He looks like Liberace in that pic. Heh.


14 posted on 12/21/2015 7:27:21 AM PST by Carriage Hill (0bummer: NO to the Keystone Oil Pipeline, but YES to the Mideast muslim Sewerline.)
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To: cripplecreek

Smart American producers who continue to label their products as being American in origin will continue to get my business.


Too bad this legislation will forbid labeling the country of origin. There will be no label on any meat identifying the origin. It’s what the big meat packers wanted.

http://www.startribune.com/house-dumps-country-of-origin-labeling-for-beef-pork-and-poultry/306839731/


15 posted on 12/21/2015 7:27:39 AM PST by Flick Lives (One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. -- Heinlein)
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To: datura

I just bought some organic pork for about $3.10 a pound. This was for smoked ham, pork chops, roasts, sausage, bacon, ect. All from a local farm. No need for the sewage feed pork and chicken from china. Who knows if it has poisons like melamine in it.

I also get fresh fish for about $2.00 a pound from the local Indian gill netters. White fish, salmon, trout ect. Non of that fish that is feed chicken waste and cost about $7.00 a pound.


16 posted on 12/21/2015 7:28:56 AM PST by jimpick
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To: boycott

“Our politicians have sold this nation down the river.”

Correction: Our REPUBLICAN Congressmen have sold us down the river, and are not even trying to hide it.


17 posted on 12/21/2015 7:30:45 AM PST by odawg
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To: ilovesarah2012
"At AMI food safety is our number one priority, but COOL doesn’t offer any food safety information to consumers,"

It tells us the meat wasn't processed in a filthy Chinese plant by TB ridden workers hacking and coughing without any hair covering or gloves...

18 posted on 12/21/2015 7:31:51 AM PST by null and void (I've been to Switzerland. I liked it, the flag's a big plus!)
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To: carriage_hill
He looks like Liberace in that pic. Heh.

I suspect Trump owns a candelabra or two, but there is nothing but heterosexual alpha male BLOOD running through that man's veins, lol
19 posted on 12/21/2015 7:33:49 AM PST by mkjessup (Trump is kicking the ass of the GOPe, RINOs & the media. Don't like him? He must be kicking YOUR ass)
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To: ilovesarah2012
The Death of the Cool
20 posted on 12/21/2015 7:34:15 AM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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