Last week, the World Trade Organization (WTO) issued its final ruling on the U.S. mandatory country-of-origin-labeling (COOL) law, upholding an earlier decision that COOL violates WTO trade agreements. Do you agree with WTO’s final ruling on COOL?
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Our forefathers and veterans have fought and died for our soveriegnty and independence and we are allowing global organizations to over rule our constitution!!!!!
People, domestic & foreigners, have the right to know where their food comes from. And, they have the right to choose. That is free trade.
Other products are labeled where they are come from, why not meat.
It's time the US Congress worked with and for the food producers in the United States. We cannot get to the point where we depend on foreign countries to raise our food. What about Home Security!!!
I want to support my fellow U.S. producers and buy their products. I can't do this unless the meat product is labeled.
We have spent a lot of money and time to raise the best and safest beef in the world. As producers we should be able to differentiate our product from what is dumped on us from other countries. This is rediculous--the hell with the WTO! It is about time that the USDA starts working with and for the United States producers of food, which by the way, does not come from the grocery store.
We deserve the right to know where are food comes from. The multinational packers and beef processers want to source cheap beef into the US from around the world.This is more than Canada and Mexico. US packers discounted canadian cattle before cool became law.
If foreign countries don't have anything to hide why should they object to their products being labeled? This is also true in fish and other seafood where ther is a proven record of contamination cover-ups
I would say this is the proper ruling. Seeing as at the meat packing level they just label product from US, Mexico and Canada to cover their basis. At the consumer level, studies have shown that the don't even look at the label. So after all of this, I can conclude that there really wasn't even any value in this as well as the fact that we were harming our relationship with bordering countries.
Nobody is discriminating against Canada or Mexico we just want to label originating country so that the consumer knows where the meat originated so he can choose if he wants to. The other consumer products ie: clothes and electronics all have made in labels on them why is meat different?
WTO decision did not say COOL was wrong it said USDA system did discriminate on Mex and Can beef. WTO said US had right to label beef but methodology was incorrect.
US producers deserve the right to label their products
This is the same WTO that US negotiators have used successfully over the years to achieve record exports of US products to Canada, Mexico and around the world. If other countries are expected to keep their markets open for US goods, it might be a good idea for the US to abide by the same rules.
Isn't this what "free trade" is all about. You buy our cattle, feed them &then say the beef came from somewhere in the U.S. Don't
think so. We feed our beef grain, you feed your beef corn. Totally different taste. Cruise ship companies serve Canadian beef. Of
course!!
How long before the WTO tells us how much and to who we are trading with
I want to know where my food comes from, case closed.
As a consumer I should have the right to decide where the product I am purchasing came from, especially given the number of foul-up's that occur in other countries and the lack of standardized quality control.
i don't need the WTO regulating me. I have enough U.S. reglulations.
How can anyone object to information?
It is not a technical issue. Just put on the label. WTO say the consumer has a right to know, sounds like double talk.
It may violate their agreements - but it is still a good idea
he point has to be, other products, shirts, electronics and many tings we buy are labeled. meat should also be included.
We should stop bashing our neighbors and some of our best trading partners!
MCool was a problem from the start.
Fish fruits and vegs. ext are
For a supposedly free-market economy, COOL represented a perversion of the democratic process by a minority pressure group with a talented lobby . As usual, it was the consumer that got shafted with higher-than-economic meat costs. Oh, and a bunch of American abattoirs went broke, people lost jobs,etc., when the supply of better-quality Canadian beef was shut off...... great planning, you selfish oafs!
Free market trade is self regulating - the product must be good to survive a supply and demand marketplace - regardless of where it came from - as long as food safety proceedures cover all products equally - let the free market trade work.
If this is true other countrys need to meet the USA standards. We need to know where are meat in the store came from just as with a tool That has made in China on it,
Making war on two of our best customers never made sense.
The US wasted a lot of money in a no win situation for political reasons
The whole world runs on this principle. If its produced in a country its a product of that country even if some of the parts come from other countries.
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