Buy from the BEST:
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.
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.
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.
Anyone who was fine with no labeling of GMO food should be fine with no COOL labeling, It’s all the same ball of wax: Big (Globalist) Brother deciding what you need to know and what you don’t need to know.
Somehow I doubt if Upton Sinclair could get into a Chinese slaughterhouse and meatpacking plant. I think I will be taking a pass on chinese made sausage
Us peons can’t get a break on knowing what the hell we’re eating!
I don’t care how it’s killed. I just want to know WHO FED IT, WHERE THE HELL IT COMES.
IS THAT TOO MUCH To ASK? Why do they want to keep it a secret?
If all countries did right by the way they produced the food, we might not be so pissed, but does our government even care what comes in? Hell no!
If need be, I will tell my grocers that I refuse to buy any mystery meats.
The 2000’s have been the millenia of screwing the public over.
With the first outbreak of e.coli or mad cow, we’ll have no means of tracing the disease back to the source.
Wonderful. Once again Congress is for sale to the highest bidder; public be damned.