OT, what the hell would you know about facts? I doubt you know what the word means. Someone saying what you want to believe is hardly a fact.
You want facts on this issue? Here's the facts!
"M"ID was prohibited from "M"COOL
That's a fact!
Want proof?
Here's proof from Tyson's letter verifying that "M"ID was prohibited from "M"COOL......
USDA has stated self-certification will not be allowed, nor will the government step in to certify where livestock were born or raised.
Well if the government is not going to "STEP IN TO CERTIFY WHERE LIVESTOCK WAS BORN AND RAISED" since "M"ID was prohibited, WHO WILL????? Explain that OT!
The law, due to a lack of enforcement becomes absolutely worthless.
Kinda like a 55 mph speed limit BUT WE'RE NOT GOING TO ENFORCE IT!
How frickin stupid!
Now you as a former "SUPPOSED" law man should know that a law that is not enforced is worthless yet you support it anyway to be part of the "GOOD OL' BOYS" import blaming club proving what a lemming you really are.
Ibp can request whatever they want, fact remains, "M"ID was prohibited from "M"COOL making the law unenforceable. Secondly, contrary to what Sandbag was spinning to you ("R-culters didn't want a BURDENSOME traceback"), R-CULT voted against "M"ID by a landslide because they didn't want to be BURDENED WITH TRACEBACK. Once again proving that Sandbag didn't know what he was talking about.
During "M"COOL listening sessions, Leo admitted to helping to write this FLAWED, UNENFORCEABLE law and sang the praises of watered down enforcement and "M"ID being prohibited.
That is why nothing has happened with this law. It's self defeating and contradicting.
The law, AS WRITTEN, is absolutely unenforceable.
The only INCENTIVE to comply with this law is that producers who do not want to be burdened with traceback and producers who refuse to abide by the packer and retailer requirements of source verification will not have a market for their cattle. In the end, they will have to ID their cattle whether they like it or not because they forced the packers to ID beef and only a complete idiot would think you could ID beef without IDing the cattle the beef came from.
So what's your point MIKE?
The law, as written, is unenforceable and a law that is unenforceable is worthless.
This stupid law forced packers to request ID. How the hell else were they supposed to ID the beef? At the same time, the law prohibited USDA from enforcing it making the law worthless.
Oh yeh, the SIMPLISTIC R-CULT "just mark the imports, just mark the imports" solution huh? Bullsh*t! That isn't enforceable either.
This law is an absolute joke.
The end point is to "BWAME DA PACKAH" for requesting source verification information that will be required for packers and retailers to comply with this law which was written by import blamers WITH NOBODY ENFORCING IT BECAUSE "M"ID WAS PROHIBITED! This means anyone can claim anything making the validity of country of origin labeling an absolute joke.
Typical of the brilliance of R-CULT!
Now Mike if you'd like to step up to the plate and refute anything I have stated here with opposing facts, BRING IT!
~SH~