Has anybody here explained why packing conglomerates can't keep track or trace imported beef? Why is it so hard for them to identify beef they ship across the border? In my estimation only live cattle shipped across need to be identified. This could be very easily acomplished with a registered country brand or tatoo. All boxed or carcass beef would be packaged with the country that it was packed in on the label. So what's the big deal. Live cattle coming across the border need to be identified anyway so they can coruspond to their health papers. All other beef is labeled USA beef. They must be comingling other cuts besides hamburger to complain so much. That's what really hurts the US producers. So it seems like the only thing we need a traceback system for is to handle US problems. So Cool could be implemented anyway even without a traceback system because the two systems are not contigious on each other. It's like the man said we could not trace a fish or a pear back to its country of origin, just from the label. However, in light of recent discoveries I do think all farm raised fish should be labled and tatooed and traceable.
