U.S. meat labels to detail animal’s origin; Canada, Mexico raise concern

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TODD KOROL/REUTERS - Ground Alberta beef is seen in coolers at a meat market in Canada. The United States is poised to introduce stricter rules on the labeling of meat imports, a move that is likely to heat up a simmering trade dispute with Canada and Mexico.

New rules for U.S. meatpackers will require labeling that tells consumers where the animal was born, raised and slaughtered.

Sounds simple.

But the regulations, posted Friday by the Department of Agriculture, are the latest move in a trade dispute that has pitted U.S. consumer groups, which favor the labels, against free-trade advocates, who say the regulations are biased against cattle and pork from Canada and Mexico.

Nor are the regulations likely to be the last word in the international controversy, which seems destined to wind up — again — before the World Trade Organization, which has previously ruled that U.S. labeling regulations discriminated against Canadian and Mexican livestock.

[Historic NY]

1. I for one want to know where it comes from? ...

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We are told with a lable where parts on a car are produced domnestically. I thinks its mosre important to know where our food change originates from. Just what standard do they have for Mad cow and other wasting disease in their herds?

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. Good odea, hope we can trust the labels to be honest.

After all this horse and pork meat sold as beef, I have a healthy dose of skepticism.
Big corporations are not known for their honesty towards the buyer.

[William769]

2. Well when it comes to meat, I'm a international type of guy!

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3. great minds think a like