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Americans have a right to know: Where’s the beef — from?

By Thomas Gremillion on August 15, 2017

This week marks the beginning of formal talks to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, an agreement President Donald Trump has called the “worst deal in history.” To make it a better deal, his…
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Beef beef: NCBA chief’s remarks spur R-CALF to seek debate

By Dan Flynn on July 28, 2017

The chief executive of the nation’s oldest and largest cattle industry association thinks a competing group is in bed with radical activists who want to “undermine the beef industry.”

Kendal Frazier, who is chief executive…
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Cattlemen sue USDA in federal court over Country of Origin Labeling (COOL)

By Dan Flynn on June 21, 2017

State and national cattlemen’s associations hope to team rope the  U.S. Department of Agriculture in federal court over  regulations that they say allow beef and pork to be classified as “domestic products” even when the…

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Petition seeks 100,000 signatures in support of Brazilian beef ban

By Dan Flynn on April 18, 2017

A petition calling upon the United States to ban Brazilian beef is looking for 100,000 signatures on the White House’s We the People website.

WethePeople_406x250“This petition is important because American produced beef is not differentiated…
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Wyoming, South Dakota nix country-of-origin-labeling for beef

By Dan Flynn on February 28, 2017

Mandatory country-of-origin-labeling bills for beef and ground beef made it out of committees in Pierre and Cheyenne, but got no further in the farm and ranch friendly South Dakota and Wyoming Legislatures.

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Ranchers look for some traction on country-of-origin labeling

By Dan Flynn on February 3, 2017

As individual actions, they might not mean much. Collectively, they say Country-of-Origin Labeling (COOL) is not going away anytime soon.

http://www.dreamstime.com/stock-photography-cheyenne-wyoming-state-capitol-image6563112Two states known for their cowboys, Wyoming and South Dakota, have seen early introduction of…
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France begins 2-year test for county-of-origin labeling

By News Desk on January 4, 2017

A two-year trial period for mandatory country-of-origin labeling is getting underway in France, but it’s not as likely to conflict with international trade rules as the U.S. COOL program did in recent years because it’s…
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Will Trump decide that COOL is ‘best for America’?

By Dan Flynn on November 22, 2016

As a surrogate speaker this past August for then-candidate Donald J. Trump, former Ohio Republican Congressman Bob McEwen gave a fiery speech to a gathering of independent activist cattlemen from 18 states gathered at the…
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Letter From the Editor: Spending Trickles Down to Food Safety

By Dan Flynn on December 20, 2015

They say that confession is good for the soul, so here goes. My confession is that I find most all of the peripheral food issues around food safety pretty boring. I was hoping Congress would…
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WTO Authorizes $1 Billion in Retaliatory Tariffs Against COOL

By Lydia Zuraw on December 8, 2015

map-North-America_406x250The World Trade Organization (WTO) has authorized Canada and Mexico to charge the U.S. $1 billion in retaliatory tariffs for country-of-origin labeling (COOL) on meat. Last spring, WTO rejected a U.S. appeal of its decision…
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