Detroit News: Foreign Food & COOL Labeling
The Detroit News has an interesting story about Country-Of-Origin-Labeling (COOL) for meat, produce and peanuts that is set to go into effect a year from now if a scheduled federal mandate goes through. We already have COOL labels on our seafood, and this would move to beef, pork, lamb, veal, produce and peanuts.
Not surprisingly, the meat industry and other large producers are not happy with this mandate (which was a part of the 2002 Farm Bill). They are also claiming that the mandate will be "confusing for customers". The spokesman for the National Meat Association says, "Animals slaughtered in the U.S. weren't
necessarily born here... Under the current proposal, the
labels would have to reveal everywhere they've been. The labels could
end up looking like passports."
Well, not the meat that I buy!
Read the rest of the article here.
(via Marion Nestle's new blog, What to Eat)
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