When COOL started last year, I asked the butcher man at Rozier's grocery store why he couldn't carry straight USA beef and he told me because it wasn't offered to him by the processors.   They couldn't specify USA only beef.   They could not buy it.

The beef has always been labelled USA, Mexico and Canada up until a couple months ago........  now I don't know if they are falsely labelling it but here lately its been only marked with USA.    I checked at Walmart's and there beef is still labelled USA, Mexico and Canada.

Kato, I don't things are going to get better for a while, or at least here in the USA as I read an article that Japan is saying their currency (is it the yen) will drop to 50 compared to the dollar and (I think its currently around 75) in 2010.  China/Japan can no longer manipulate their currencies to the dollar w/o detrimental effects to their countries and that's one of the reasons they want a "global currency".  Unemployment in the USA is predicted to stay at 8% at least thru 2013.  That's not good news.

Every nation has built up their economy by exporting their goods to the USA and the american consumer went into debt and/or borrowed like crazy against the equity of their home because wages have fallen in the past 30 years.   That has now stopped.  I read the other day they had 10,000 applicants over in KY for 90 factory jobs at GE for a $27,000 yearly wage ....... can you imagine.

I sincerely feel for you but I am not and will not idly sit by and watch my fellow American rancher/farmer go out of business with his own herd sell out without raising cane with my congressional leaders.  Beef imports should be limited to the amount that we export ONLY.  This would entice importers to make sure there is an export market for their product.