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HAY MAKER

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Canadian Livestock Producers Trying To 'Clip' COOL

8/9/2007 8:21:00 AM


Canadian Livestock Producers Trying To 'Clip' COOL



The Canadian Cattlemen's Association and the Canadian Pork Council have united in an attempt to do away with Washington's current mandatory country-of-origin labeling law, calling it a trade barrier and contending it violates international trade laws.

In a statement released Tuesday, the coalition, known as Canadian Livestock Producers Against COOL, or CliP COOL, said the provision of the U.S. Farm Bill violates Washington's obligations under the North American Free Trade Agreement and the World Trade Organization, and should be accordingly revised.

The coalition argues the law will raise costs due to tracking and complex labeling, and urges the Canadian government to express its concerns to Washington.

"The problem is that access for live animals to U.S. slaughter facilities will be impaired if those facilities do not want to incur the burden of tracking which product satisfies which origin label," CCA President ugh Lynch-Staunton said. "So even though Canadian meat might do well with U.S. consumers, Canadian livestock producers will face lower prices for their animals."

Concerned about potential discrimination against Canadian animals, the coalition argues COOL should consider the country of origin to be that which processes the meat.
"Clip COOL believes that NAFTA and WTO require the United States to treat meat from animals processed in the United States as U.S. meat," the group said.
 
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Anonymous

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I'm waiting to see if Lou Dobbs picks up on this and tears Canadians a new rear end like he did NCBA, AMI, USDA, Bush Administration, and the Packers about their defrauding consumers by not implementing M-COOL- and their failure to support telling US consumers the truth and give them an informed choice....Dollars over consumer safety...

And He's really been tearing into the FTA's and how they jeopardize food safety with imported foods...

Might just be a big awakening to the US consumer if he lays out all the BSE problem of Canadian cattle/beef and how the CDC recognizes Canadian beef as 26 times the risk of US beef..... :roll:

And I just happen to know that he and Katy Pilgrim have been getting copies of every Canuck article about their new little organization to fight M-COOL that appears here.... :wink:
 

HAY MAKER

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Oldtimer said:
I'm waiting to see if Lou Dobbs picks up on this and tears Canadians a new rear end like he did NCBA, AMI, USDA, Bush Administration, and the Packers about their defrauding consumers by not implementing M-COOL- and their failure to support telling US consumers the truth and give them an informed choice....Dollars over consumer safety...

And He's really been tearing into the FTA's and how they jeopardize food safety with imported foods...

Might just be a big awakening to the US consumer if he lays out all the BSE problem of Canadian cattle/beef and how the CDC recognizes Canadian beef as 26 times the risk of US beef..... :roll:

And I just happen to know that he and Katy Pilgrim have been getting copies of every Canuck article about their new little organization to fight M-COOL that appears here.... :wink:

Wonder how they are getting them :wink:
good luck
 
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HAY MAKER said:
Oldtimer said:
I'm waiting to see if Lou Dobbs picks up on this and tears Canadians a new rear end like he did NCBA, AMI, USDA, Bush Administration, and the Packers about their defrauding consumers by not implementing M-COOL- and their failure to support telling US consumers the truth and give them an informed choice....Dollars over consumer safety...

And He's really been tearing into the FTA's and how they jeopardize food safety with imported foods...

Might just be a big awakening to the US consumer if he lays out all the BSE problem of Canadian cattle/beef and how the CDC recognizes Canadian beef as 26 times the risk of US beef..... :roll:

And I just happen to know that he and Katy Pilgrim have been getting copies of every Canuck article about their new little organization to fight M-COOL that appears here.... :wink:

Wonder how they are getting them :wink:
good luck

Yep-- I don't know what CCA is thinking- or if they are just following their AMI/Packer handlers again...Because even if they should win- they are going to lose bigtime....Tyson/Cargill/AMI/NCBA etal promised (not worth enough to buy a cup of coffee) to not fight M-COOL in Congress, in order to make a deal to kill a Packer Ownership bill from the Farm Bill--so its my bet they are now using the Canadians as stooges...

Dobbs, Pilgrim, O'Reilly, the consumer groups, and this fastly growing protectionist movement would tear them apart if they file a challenge to M-COOL- make Canadian ranchers look like a bunch of vultures- greed over consumers right to a truthful informed choice and safety...Dobbs sure made NCBA & AMI look like dolts...Luckily Dobbs used Bullard to show that NCBA does not represent much of the real ranchers/cattlemen out there...

It will bring Canadas BSE problem- and higher risk status to the front pages and evening news around the world again (especially since Canada is about due for another positive cow)...Might even bring on the Constitutional Challenge to NAFTA that many have been calling for if Canada got a favorable ruling...Dobbs (who holds an economics degree from Harvard) is one of those saying the FTA's are unconstitutional and calling for a challenge of them...

Nope- I don't think this is the time or place to be bringing up opposition to M-COOL...
 

Sandhusker

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I honestly hope CLIP makes a lot of noise and pushes their agenda hard. We'll see how the American public reacts to the possibility of a piece of legislation enacted by their elected representatives and supported by over 90% of the populace getting overturned by Canadians and Mexicans. Lets get this BS out front so everybody can see it.
 

Kato

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What happens if the American consumer finds out that the Canadian processing system is set at a higher standard than that in the U.S.? That our feed ban is more extensive, and that our regulatory agencies are not corrupt as you like to think yours are????

Glass houses.......... :!: :wink:
 

Sandhusker

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Kato said:
What happens if the American consumer finds out that the Canadian processing system is set at a higher standard than that in the U.S.? That our feed ban is more extensive, and that our regulatory agencies are not corrupt as you like to think yours are????

Glass houses.......... :!: :wink:

Maybe we'd get some things fixed right. Would probably be the best thing that ever happened to us.
 
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