The Cattlemens Beef Association wants the United States Department of Agriculture to change the “product of U.S.A.” label to “processed in the U.S.A.”
It says consumers are misled into believing that products that use imported cattle and carcasses are entirely U.S. products when they can actually be only lightly processed in the U.S.
In Michigan, politicians are debating a bill that would require products to say what they contain, including mixtures of different species, such as beef and pork in sausages.
But the main aim is to inform consumers about plant protein and cell-cultured products.
Wisconsin is debating a bill that would limit meat labels to products made from “the edible part of flesh from an animal”.
Plant proteins could be labelled “meat alternative”.
Politicians in Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas, have passed legislation aimed at plant-based proteins and they are now face court challenges from the plant-protein producers.
