Reuters: COOL shaking up US meat industry
The Country Of Origin Labeling legislation (COOL) in the United States has so far angered both the country’s farmers and its neighbours Canada and Mexico, press agency Reuters reports.
The legislation has angered Canada and Mexico because, they say, it will hurt demand for their cattle and hogs. It has raised talk of a trade war among the three countries.
Implementation
COOL was implemented last month and requires that labels on supermarket packages of meat and other foods list all the countries where the food came from. The drive for such labels intensified after dairy products from China were tainted last year with the chemical melamine.
To better comply and to avoid stiff fines for labeling mistakes, US beef and pork companies are either refusing or are segregating cattle and hogs born outside of the United States.
This has reduced markets for US producers, as well as for producers in Canada and Mexico.
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