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  • House votes to repeal country-of-origin labeling on meat (Republicans repeal country-of-origin)

    06/11/2015 6:42:36 AM PDT · by Enlightened1 · 100 replies
    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...
  • Americans will no longer know which country their meat has come...

    01/04/2016 6:52:36 PM PST · by paul544 · 86 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | 1/4/2016 | Jennifer Newton
    Americans will find it more difficult to discover where their meat has come from after Congress announced it would be scrapping labelling laws. After more than a decade of wrangling, it was decided to axe the law which required retailers to include the animal's country of origin on packages of red meat. It's a major victory for the meat industry, which has fought the law in Congress and the courts since early 2000.