The South Dakota legislature will be debating a bill,
perhaps as early as this week, to require all retailers to label meats for
Country of Origin.
An organization of independent beef producers is calling for
the legislation.
There is no doubt they are well aware of the impact this has
on reducing prices and profits for their Canadian competitors, and that they
know previous federal COOL regulations were deemed illegal by the World Trade
Organization.
President Donald Trump will, no doubt, be using COOL as a bargaining
chip in his demands that the North American Free Trade Agreement be renegotiated.
And for those who note that COOL was ruled illegal by the
World Trade Organization, recall that Trump also said on the campaign trail
that he will pull out of that global agreement if he can’t get the measures he
wants to bring jobs back to the United States.
