House votes to repeal meat labeling laws after $3B threat from Canada, Mexico
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Thursday, June 11, 2015, 6:22 AM
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Andrew Harnik/AP The U.S. House of Representatives has voted to get rid of labels on meat packages that say where the animals were born, raised and slaughtered.
The House voted 300-131 to repeal country-of-origin labeling rules on beef, pork and poultry, after the World Trade Organization ruled they discriminated against imported meat.
The Senate must still approve the repeal.
If the laws are not reversed, the U.S. faces costly retaliation from its two of its neighbors. Canada wants to impose just over $2.4 billion in sanctions on U.S. imports while Mexico is looking for $653 million worth of punitive measures.
Some of the biggest U.S. food and beverage companies, including Pepsico Inc, Tyson Foods Inc, Anheuser-Busch and Kraft Foods, wrote to lawmakers urging them to support the repeal.
J. Scott Applewhite/AP The World Trade Organization ruled that the laws discriminated against imported meat.
Meat labels became mandatory in the U.S. in March 2009 after years of debate. U.S. consumer groups and some farm groups supported the requirement, saying shoppers should have information to be able to distinguish between U.S. and foreign products.
With News Wire Services
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Here's the problem as I see it. If we don't know where U.S. meat comes from you then have meats that might be in one package that came from 100 different countries. I suppose the label could say something like: "Part of this meat was raised in the U.S." and be just 1% of the meat.
So, if the Senate passes this I think you are just going to see a whole lot of new vegetarians here in the U.S., especially if some of that meat is from China.
If you have been reading about China at least 100 to 1000 people in China die of poison in their food weekly because of inadequate governmental Controls on food and corruption in the government with payoffs.
So, you do not want food from China (meat or any other foods sold here in the U.S.)
There are other countries that don't properly inspect foods they make too. Recently in China people were trying to sell tons of Chicken feet and other Chicken parts frozen since the 1970s. The government only caught these people in China because some of the food had gone rotten before being sold.
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