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Bush Signs $100 Billion Food and Farm Bill [telling grocery shoppers where their meat comes from...]
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Posted on 11/10/2005 5:36:05 PM PST by Sub-Driver

Bush Signs $100 Billion Food and Farm Bill

1 hour, 5 minutes ago

President Bush on Thursday signed a $100 billion food and farm spending bill that includes a two-year delay on labels telling grocery shoppers where their meat comes from.

The legislation postpones mandatory meat labeling until 2008. Originally sought by Western ranchers and required by law in 2004, country-of-origin labeling has stalled under pressure from meatpackers and supermarkets who call it a record-keeping nightmare.

The measure also overrides a court ruling on whether products labeled "USDA Organic" can contain

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 109th; beef; billsigning; bush43; bushbashing; countryoforigin; ranchers; usda
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To: Sub-Driver
[ Bush Signs $100 Billion Food and Farm Bill ]

He signed it he didnt write it..

The RINOS you elected to congress wrote it passed it..
And no doubt are congratulating themselves YOU havent found out they are stealth DEMOCRATS YET..

Not that Bush is any great prize either..

21 posted on 11/10/2005 6:17:03 PM PST by hosepipe (CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole..)
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To: Sub-Driver

I thought meat already says where it comes from.

When I buy imported lamb, there are little stamps on the outside that say New Zealand or Australia.

I assumed other meats like beef, pork or chicken came from the USA or is that a false assumption?


22 posted on 11/10/2005 6:17:27 PM PST by varyouga (Reformed Kerry voter ( I know, I'm a frickin' idiot))
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To: Sub-Driver

Bought some steaks at Costco not too long ago. They tasted like the cow was gut shot. Truly weird.


23 posted on 11/10/2005 6:17:43 PM PST by Sam Cree (absolute reality)
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To: Sub-Driver

But doesn't regulation stifle business? Maybe this is a good thing.


24 posted on 11/10/2005 6:19:17 PM PST by Siena Dreaming
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To: Sam Cree

I won't buy meat at COSTCO.....not even their fish looks worthwhile....I've gotten so I'll only buy ORGANIC....which guarantees it's raised somewhere reasonably close without a lot of additives....but, we don't eat much red meat, anyway.


25 posted on 11/10/2005 6:21:03 PM PST by goodnesswins (DEMS....40 yrs and $$$dollars for the War on Poverty, but NOT a $$ or minute for the WAR on Terror!)
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To: operation clinton cleanup
Don't buy meat at Wal-Mart... find a local Butcher who can tell you where the meat came from.

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Better yet harvest your own meat. Put that venison on your table before your neighbor kills it with her Mercedes.

26 posted on 11/10/2005 6:23:33 PM PST by WideGlide (That light at the end of the tunnel might be a muzzle flash.)
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To: MrsEmmaPeel

No kidding - these guys are making Clinton look like the model for fiscal restraint.


27 posted on 11/10/2005 6:27:12 PM PST by al_again
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To: WideGlide

Deer can be harmful to humans... if your car connects with one on a rural road in the middle of the night!


28 posted on 11/10/2005 6:27:44 PM PST by operation clinton cleanup
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To: goodnesswins

I adore red meat, so does my wife. 'Course we don't eat it every day. Organic sounds good, assuming it doesn't have a lot weird hormones?


29 posted on 11/10/2005 6:28:16 PM PST by Sam Cree (absolute reality)
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To: goodnesswins
...but, we don't eat much red meat, anyway.

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I say stick with fish. The Omega-3 fatty acids are great! And fishin' is soooooo much fun. ;>)

30 posted on 11/10/2005 6:30:00 PM PST by WideGlide (That light at the end of the tunnel might be a muzzle flash.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Mandatory meat labeling? They are out of their freakin' minds.


31 posted on 11/10/2005 6:36:47 PM PST by Born Conservative (The word bipartisan usually means some larger-than-usual deception is being carried out - G. Carlin)
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To: goodnesswins

"I've gotten so I'll only buy ORGANIC....which guarantees it's raised somewhere reasonably close without a lot of additives....but, we don't eat much red meat, anyway."



Saw this the other days:


"INDUSTRY SNEAK ATTACK ON ORGANIC STANDARDS RAMMED THROUGH CONGRESS

Despite receiving over 350,000 letters and phone calls from OCA members and the organic community, Republican leaders in Congress October 27 attached a rider to the 2006 Agricultural Appropriations Bill to weaken the nation's organic food standards in response to pressure from large-scale food manufacturers.

"Congress voted last night to weaken the national organic standards that consumers count on to preserve the integrity of the organic label," said Ronnie Cummins, National Director of the Organic Consumers Association. "The process was profoundly undemocratic and the end result is a serious setback for the multi billion dollar alternative food and farming system that the organic community has so painstakingly built up over the past 35 years.

As passed, the amendment sponsored by the Organic Trade Association allows: Numerous synthetic food additives and processing aids, including over 500 food contact substances, to be used in organic foods without public review. Young dairy cows to continue to be treated with antibiotics and fed genetically engineered feed prior to being converted to organic production. Loopholes under which non-organic ingredients could be substituted for organic ingredients without any notification of the public based on "emergency decrees." OCA will work to reverse this rider with an "Organic Restoration Act" in Congress in 2006."


32 posted on 11/10/2005 6:41:42 PM PST by nralife
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To: Sub-Driver

Given the decades of general ignorance of geography in our public schools, I'm sure most shoppers wouldn't notice if the meat was labeled as coming from East Dakota


33 posted on 11/10/2005 6:46:28 PM PST by The Great RJ ("Mir wölle bleiwen wat mir sin" or "We want to remain what we are." ..Luxembourg motto)
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To: hosepipe
Not that Bush is any great prize either..

thank you...

34 posted on 11/10/2005 6:49:04 PM PST by houeto (Mr. President, close our borders now!)
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To: TheHound

I WANT TO KNOW WHERE MY FOOD COMES FROM.

Yeah, I do too! I want my avocado's to come from Mexico, I want my papaya's to come from Belize, and I want my beef to come from Argentina.

What I am sick of, is the fact that I have to pay higher prices for food because some stupid politician wants to mollycoddle a special interest group.

I have no desire to pay more for a special little sticker on my produce or meat, nor will I pay more for an obtuse "certification" such as the "Organically Grown" labels. This will only build yet another petty bureaucracy for those chosen to enforce such labeling, and ultimately, pass the price increase on to the consumers.

In a free market society, the farmers need to be able to compete. If they can't compete, they need to get out of the business.

/rant

35 posted on 11/10/2005 6:50:57 PM PST by Sarajevo
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To: WideGlide

Don't link what sucks...or go away!


36 posted on 11/10/2005 6:52:26 PM PST by houeto (Mr. President, close our borders now!)
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To: WideGlide

Those fish look like bass, it's the salmon, mackerel, and herring that are rich in Omega 3's


37 posted on 11/10/2005 6:54:21 PM PST by Amish with an attitude (An armed society is a polite society)
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To: Sam Cree

ORGANIC has NO hormones at all....it tastes great....organic chickens taste great, too....but their spendy. (I wait for it to go on sale because no one else is buying it)


38 posted on 11/10/2005 6:57:16 PM PST by goodnesswins (DEMS....40 yrs and $$$dollars for the War on Poverty, but NOT a $$ or minute for the WAR on Terror!)
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To: nralife

Well....we'll just have to watch more closely, and buy more closely (to home.) Actually, I'd love to raise organic chickens and beef some day.....


39 posted on 11/10/2005 6:59:32 PM PST by goodnesswins (DEMS....40 yrs and $$$dollars for the War on Poverty, but NOT a $$ or minute for the WAR on Terror!)
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To: Stentor

"But we are winning the war in Iraq"


40 posted on 11/10/2005 7:00:56 PM PST by manwiththehands
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