[A. Pole]

Producers in favor of mandatory labels believe consumers will prefer U.S.-grown food over foreign imports. The law requires companies to put country-of-origin labels on meat, vegetables and fruit.

Why the freetraders do not like it? They should be proud of importing food instead of hiding it.

[oceanview]

and that Mexican food will have all those "free" extras - like pesticides and disease. I'll be eating more stuff from italy.

[Veritas et equitas ad Votum]

"They should be proud of importing food instead of hiding it."

Exactly. Hiding something as basic as where a product is produced makes me very nervous.

[snopercod]

I always buy Pictsweet brand frozen vegetables. "Grown in U.S.A".