Coalition Wants COOL To Return To NAFTA

The Coalition for a Prosperous America is urging the U.S. to include Country-of-Origin Labeling for beef and pork in the North American Free Trade Agreement Negotiations.  Coalition member, R-CALF, said in a news release that reinstatement of COOL labeling will help U.S. consumers “to find safer food alternatives and will also help to boost domestic agriculture.”

R-CALF points out in its reasoning for COOL that the U.S. cattle industry is the single largest segment of U.S. agriculture and includes roughly 750,000 cattle farm and ranch operations.

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