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gvstn

(2,805 posts)
Mon Jul 22, 2013, 04:36 PM Jul 2013

Cattle producers want to get rid of new meat labels

Texas cattleman Bob McCan would just as soon steer clear of the U.S. government’s latest meat-labeling rules.

For many U.S. consumers, it’s a popular idea: Label packages to let them know what country the meat comes from.


McCan, now the president-elect of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, is among a group of cattle producers and meat companies that has sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture for moving ahead in late May with new country-of-origin labeling rules.

In a lawsuit filed July 8 in U.S. District Court in Washington, the groups claim the labels will hurt beef exports and are unconstitutional as “compelled speech” that doesn’t advance a government interest

Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/07/22/197142/cattle-producers-want-to-get-rid.html#storylink=cpy


This Bob McCan seem like a real winner. I wonder what his politics are?
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Cattle producers want to get rid of new meat labels (Original Post) gvstn Jul 2013 OP
The Meat Companies are getting off easy. They are lucky 99th_Monkey Jul 2013 #1
This like Monsanto complaining that putting GM on a label is like putting djean111 Jul 2013 #2
Monsanto is their own worst enemy gvstn Jul 2013 #4
Cows produce cattle, people don't leftstreet Jul 2013 #3
You are correct. gvstn Jul 2013 #5
 

99th_Monkey

(19,326 posts)
1. The Meat Companies are getting off easy. They are lucky
Mon Jul 22, 2013, 04:45 PM
Jul 2013

that I'm not running the Dept. of Ag, or they would need to
LABEL MEAT ON A SPECTRUM FROM "SAD & TORTURED" TO
"HAPPY & FREE-RANGE," complete with very graphic pictures
of a cows face changing from one to the other gradually.

The meat would need to graphically reflect what factory
farming does to cows, pigs, chickens, etc. we eat.

 

djean111

(14,255 posts)
2. This like Monsanto complaining that putting GM on a label is like putting
Mon Jul 22, 2013, 04:57 PM
Jul 2013

a skull and crossbones. Because yeah.

gvstn

(2,805 posts)
4. Monsanto is their own worst enemy
Mon Jul 22, 2013, 05:10 PM
Jul 2013

They are evil. Just seeing the name Monsanto you know whatever they are doing is evil. I really don't have a problem with some GM food. In its purest form it is just a targeted way of cross breeding to bring out certain characteristics. But when Monsanto is involved, I know they did more than just try to get a sweeter ear of corn. If they had to put their name on my produce, I would try to avoid anything grown using their seeds on general principle.

leftstreet

(36,078 posts)
3. Cows produce cattle, people don't
Mon Jul 22, 2013, 04:59 PM
Jul 2013

Not your title, I know!

Just an irritating masters-of-the universe use of terminology

gvstn

(2,805 posts)
5. You are correct.
Mon Jul 22, 2013, 05:12 PM
Jul 2013

Unfortunately, after 15 years on the internet my grammar is now so atrocious, I don't even notice the big errors let alone the little ones.

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