WHO CARES WHERE YOUR FOOD COMES FROM?: Surveys show 86 percent of consumers supp

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WHO CARES WHERE YOUR FOOD COMES FROM?: Surveys show 86 percent of

consumers support a law that would require foods to have a label

indentifying their country of origin. Congress responded to consumer

pressure way back in 2002 and passed a Country of Origin law (COOL)

for beef, lamb, pork, fish, peanuts, and fresh and frozen fruits and

vegetables. Unfortunately, except for fish, this law has never been

implemented. The meat portion of the COOL law was supposed to go into

effect by the end of this month. But some of the biggest players in

the meat industry, including Cargill and Tyson Foods formed a massive

lobbying group affectionately entitled the " Meat Promotion Coalition. "

The group has successfully badgered Congress into delaying

implementation of the law until at least 2008.

Learn more: http://www.organicconsumers.org/2006/article_2615.cfm