Everyone Thrown Under the Bus: In a perverse attempt to come into compliance with an adverse WTO ruling against country of origin labeling (COOL) for beef, pork and lamb, the Obama Administration has constructed a revised rule that caused one U.S. industry representative to react by saying, "Now they've thrown everyone under the bus." Under the proposal, all meat domestic and imported will have to be tracked from birth, through growth and into slaughter.Contrary to the Administration's claim that "The major cost of implementing the proposed amendments would be incurred at the packing or processing facility," the proposed removal of the current commingling of origins on the label will have retailers burdened as they've never been before. M...

TAGS – Livestock, Equities, Asia, North America