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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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With beef from Argentina, you can usually see where the Jockey hit the animal.
Smart American producers who continue to label their products as being American in origin will continue to get my business.
Same here.
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.
It is never about what consumers want.
Time to start visiting your local farmer or rancher.
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.
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”.
Buy local. Support your local farmers and ranchers whenever possible - try the farmers markets if you can.
Its what I like about Meijer stores. They sell a lot of local produce.
I’ll just have to get back into the beef business.I’m sure that somebody would buy my grass fed steers.
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.
He looks like Liberace in that pic. Heh.
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.
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.
“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.
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...
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