Beef coming from Brazil is no worse than beef from the US. Have you seen the shit they pass off as USDA beef these days?

It costs more but it's worth it to me. I can taste the difference between standard grocery meat and what I buy.

is very corporate republican thinking since you don't care where your food comes from..

We have the right to know where our damn food comes from

Uh, well, no we don't. Not any more. We are all a part of the New World Order now!

When our rights as American citizens get's in the way of multi national corporation profits, then we must yield these former Rights to the God's of CORPORATE COMMERCE!

PS - didn't this right get taken away from us by some international trade groups just weeks before this legislation? WOT? or something?


-90% jimmy

Which is why I have been buying only organic meat and lately from butchers who sell only product that is locally sourced. I live near Amish country so we have plenty of Farmer's market that ship in Amish raised meat and egg.

But even if I don't buy from the Amish then I will only buy organic meat. Ever since reading the article in Rolling Stone magazine about how Smithville Farm raises their pigs for their sausage products (Corporation farming at it's best), I have sworn off non-organic meat as much as possible!

For example mad cow disease outbreak in Britain.......... country of Origin stopped british export of this meat and contaminating other meats such as sausage


hepatitis A outbreak in Australia
from imported berries



Cases of bovine spongiform encephalopathy—mad cow disease—have been reported in Brazil as recently as 2014.


Bill Maher showed on his show The package of hamburgersaid that it contained meat from Australia, Nicaragua, New Zealand, and the United States.

Animal treatment


This was a republican bill

but I resent the imposition of risk upon the entire nation.

Corporations only have as much power as individual shareholders are willing to turn over to them.

They decide to toss out any sort of empathy or a sense of responsibility towards others, towards nature or democracy itself. The corporations are only as powerful as the shareholders allow (and my do they allow a lot) in the time heralded pursuit of more for the most and less for the least.

TPP hasn't even been foisted upon us and we are suffering. The lack of protection from tainted goods (remember the Chinese pet food scandal?) will bite real hard when it hits.

It's only a matter of time. Public health no longer matters, nor the environment. Only ONE thing count$$$$ in the bank, large amounts.

The Chinese control the pork packers, and soon Argentina or Brazil will control the beef packers.
The Chinese are buying huge parcels of the best farm land in the country.
We will soon have given control of our food supply to other countries.
Greedy dirtbags in government, and lowlife corporations will be our undoing.

And since Obama signed it, I'm guessing this wasnt a stand alone bill

there does not (yet) seem to be a prohibition of labeling if you want. u.s. slaughterhouses would be smart to put "u.s. beef" or whatever on their meat.

but i would not be surprised to see pushback to force secrecy in origin.

They just have to do some amount of "production" in the US. Like applying "Produced in the USA" labels.

It certainly isn't the highest bidder.

Oh well. We the People pick up the tab for everything.

Thank you, sir. May I have another?

i will also buy from other countries, including mexico, israel, and canada. organic fruit and veggies come from many countries.

farmers markets are locally grown, or they will tell you where they got it

Although the meat ons seem to get more press

...but only because I only buy from a local-growth coop. If it won't grow locally in CT at this time of year, I haven't got it unless I already had it and laid it in the larder for the winter.

I hope and expect that Canadians will treat our products the same way - not no standards or low standards but high standards applied across the board regardless of what state or country is the source.

But, I just worry about my cat's food. I don't eat that much meat, but the cat can't live without it. I don't want to risk feeding her some shit from China that might kill her. Some of the canned food I give her comes from Canada. I don't have a problem with that. I figure they're as good, if not better than here, even with the origin labels.

As for beef and pork, if I don't know where it comes from, I just won't buy it. Just like I pass on the Chinese frozen fish.

I get mine at a local Farmers Market here in Austin.

FYI

Richardson's Farms

http://richardsonfarms.com/

we will be lucky to recognize the pasty gray gruel we will all have to eat under the new world order

And it shows how much they have to hide.

This was required by NAFTA. We lost a case in the WTO that country-of-origin labels were unfair.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-wto-usa-food-idUSKBN0O20W620150517

At least you know where that comes from!

for a bit of visibility

Thanks, Bill Clinton and the DLC!

Oppose this?
Support Hillary?

I don't see how people can not see the logical disconnect.

This may have been a GOP bill but it's the bastard baby of Bill's bloody FTA (NAFTA) and the current FTA (TPP) that I don't believe Hillary when she says she's not a supporter of it.

It was them who wanted this and who are racing to the bottom of the quality and price continuum...

laws will no longer apply to imported foods. We are going to pay for this in a lot of ways.