Consumers won't know meat origin after US ends labeling law

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  1. SlyPokerDog

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    WASHINGTON (AP) -- It's now harder to find out where your beef or pork was born, raised and slaughtered.

    After more than a decade of wrangling, Congress repealed a labeling law last month that required retailers to include the animal's country of origin on packages of red meat. It's a major victory for the meat industry, which had fought the law in Congress and the courts since the early 2000s.

    Lawmakers said they had no choice but to get rid of the labels after the World Trade Organization repeatedly ruled against them. The WTO recently authorized Canada and Mexico, which had challenged the law, to begin more than $1 billion in economic retaliation against the United States.

    "U.S. exporters can now breathe a sigh of relief," said Republican Sen. Pat Roberts of Kansas, chairman of the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee. The longtime opponent of the labels helped add the repeal to a massive year-end spending bill. After the law was passed, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said the government immediately would stop requiring the labels.

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    Before repeal, the labels told shoppers that a particular cut of meat was "born in Canada, raised and slaughtered in the United States" or "born, raised and slaughtered in the United States." Congress first required the labels in 2002 amid fears of mad cow disease from imported cattle. The labels weren't on most packages until 2009, though, due to delays pushed by the meat industry.

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    The next improvement to the meat industry should be if it tastes like chicken they can call it chicken.
     
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    PDXFonz I’m listening

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    Are we gonna fly our cows to China to be murdered?
     
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    How will we know if we're really eating dog?

    Oh no!
     
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    No worries. He's going to get slaughtered at the polls.
     
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    I am going vegan. It was because of mass feeding of anti-biotics to cattle that caused the current crisis we are facing. I've seen forum posts by lab technicians saying the latest Ecoli strains are totally resistant. In the future when you go into the hospital and get a MRSA infection, it may be untreatable. While they are currently working on potential new drugs, their hasn't been a new antibiotic break through in decades! And all because mankind was so f-cking stupid as to feed them in mass amounts for healthier beef.

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    I don't think we want a global food supply. Seems we should indeed keep that local. Screw the World trade organization. I like to know where my food comes from. I would like it to say USA, period.
    But I do like Thai Rice. Mexican beef when in Mexico.
     
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    Less government regulation is a good thing.
     
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    Absolutely! That is why we should have told the World Trade Organization to go pound sand. We hardly need another layer, specially where we (people) have no elected representatives.
    I know the Beef industry wanted to cater, but I don't like them running herds on public land anyway. Their prices would be much more stable if there were not so many cow calf pairs on public land anyway.

    It isn't fair to the rancher that owns the land he raise beefs on. Grazing on public land cost less than the property taxes on the private land. To say nothing of the environmental impact of cows pooping in the creeks, eroding the banks, eating the seedling trees, etc.. Like I said in another post, another story for another time
    Just one last story about it. When I decided to sell my small herd off my ranch, the same day I took them to auction, a Federal Judge ordered all cattle off the public lands. The auction was posponed one day and holy hell, thousands of cattle came. Most sold for 1/3 the previous going price. Shit! Well such as luck is. Who brought the most beef to market? The largest grazer in the state naturally, Pacific Power & light. Yep PPL your typical family rancher. That crap needs to be shut down.
     
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    If that happened now you could just label it salmon and sell it for big money!
     
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    Rather Sly.
     
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    I gave you a like because I really did like the post.
     
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    If/when there's a mad cow scare, don't eat beef.

    Duh.

    Don't need the government to tell you that.
     
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    Most of what I have been getting can't be eaten anyway. Geez I miss raising my own, grass feed yearling's.
     
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    How do you think the scare starts? People die? Oh, yeah.

    I'm in Mexico at a huge resort filled with people from all over the world. This place is insane. People in wheelchairs can barely get around, there are extension cords zip tied to wooden pedestrian bridges over water with multiple cords plugged into adapters.

    I could rip the 3 foot high railing off of our 9th floor balcony with my bare hands. An average adult could likely fall right through it.

    The airport must be the result of a kindergarten class project.

    This place is ridiculous.
     
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    I've been to Cancun. The resort is ultra rich. The neighborhood outside the resort is dirt poor. The good jobs at the resort paid $200/month. Welcome to Mexico.
     
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    Luckily I have a swim-up room when I go to Mexico this year. I'd hate to get drunk and take a tumble. I guess the only thing I have to worry about is getting shocked while using the swim-up bar... LOL.

    However, your words about the airport scare me..... :o
     
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    It's an amazing sight. I'm sure this advanced society will be super careful and make sure your beef that you won't know is from here is super safe.
     
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    Keep an eye out if you check your bag. The airport workers grabbed them and stacked them on the floor before we got to them. Luckily my wife saw them do it.

    By one money exchange there must have been 50 large bags randomly stacked in a pile with nobody watching them. Good luck finding your shit.
     
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