[familyop]

"over a new U.S. law that requires retailers to provide country-of-origin labeling for fresh beef and pork, officials said."

...because we don't want no steenkin' mad cows from Britain!

[riverrunner]

Is there meat that bad that they can't say where it came from?

Are they not producing a great product that they can not be proud of?

[familyop]

FReepers:

There are too many anglophiles up there. If they’ll stop mad British cow imports from coming here (at least with a heads-up on where the beef originates, then I’ll buy beef from Canada. If they force it on us, I’ll immediately start raising my own beef.

[cripplecreek]

Free trade or forced trade?

Getting a little hard to tell the difference.

[driftdiver]

Sorta like that genetically modified food they want to keep secret too.

[abigailsmybaby]

So, we have to buy canadian meat even if we don’t want it?

[magooey]

So the WTO doesn't want country of origin labels! Are we just supposed to die of melamine poisoning? Our taxes pay for a Food and Drug Administration (FDA). They ought to have serious input into this issue.

[CzarNicky]

As I walk up to the meat counter I notice one says origin Canada and the other says origin China. Which one will I pick?