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Where's the beef (from?) Who knows! NAFTA takes away!

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I have not seen coverage here on DK—If I missed it my apologies. I think it is a big deal and a harbinger of things to come.

As part of the spending bill passed by Congress and signed by Pres Obama, labeling of where the animals were raised that is now disclosed on the meat labels will be eliminated despite the fact that 90% of American consumers want to know.

Canada and Mexico filed a complaint under NAFTA with the World Trade Organization and won approval to impose $! billion of tariffs on American products if the labeling wasn’t ended. For more details from Yahoo news (sorry couldn’t figure out how to link to full story):

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.

The country-of-origin labeling rule, known as COOL, was repealed under the federal spending bill passed Friday by Congress, The Wall Street Journal reports. President Barack Obama added his signature to the bill as well.

The decision to repeal COOL comes on the heels of a ruling from the World Trade Organization that found the labels discriminate against meat raised and slaughtered in countries other than the U.S. Earlier this month, the WTO allowed Mexico and Canada—America’s top ag partners—to impose more than $1 billion in tariffs on U.S. goods in retaliation if the labels were not removed.

In addition to meat labeling, I saw a story that contended that labeling such as “Dolphin safe” on tuna may be at risk allowing fishermen to revert to killing dolphins while catching tuna.


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