Then the GOP should have done something with this legislation when they controlled Congress. This has been a persistent request from many consumer groups as well as US farmers.
US farmers/ranchers especially wanted COOL (Country Of Origin Labeling) after the Canadian BSE outbreak took down beef prices in the US markets (which were BSE-free).
The USDA and consumer groups then wanted national animal ID implemented, which would allow tracking livestock from birth to hamburger, but the packing companies didn’t want COOL. With national animal ID, you’d not only know country of origin, you’d know the specific ranch where the animal was born - way more information than necessary to implement COOL.
But the GOP refused to bring the bill forward. Why? Because the GOP has been carrying water for the four big meat packing industries for years, and they refused to listen to the consumers, farmers and ranchers and instead they wanted to listen to the big meat packers and idiotic economists claiming that things like COOL are an impediment to international trade.
Is it any surprise that the GOP is now the minority party?
They’re mostly all morons in Congress, but the GOP leadership is a very special brand of mental pygmies.
“instead they wanted to listen to the big meat packers...”
...who were employing illegal aliens, who will be given amnesty by any of the three candidates running for President, and who will then vote Democrat and relegate the GOP to minority status for the next 40 years.
They don’t call it “The Stupid Party” for nothing.