6-4 IAN COOL

 Quoting directly from Fox News: “The United States is poised to introduce stricter rules on the labeling of meat imports, a move that is likely to heat up a simmering trade dispute with Canada and Mexico Under new regulations that Washington says are aimed at complying with a World Trade Organization order, all meat sold in the United States must have labels that state where an animal was born, fed and slaughtered.

Meat exporters in Canada and Mexico say the new rules would cut even deeper into cattle and hog shipments that have already slumped by as much as half in the last four years. The Canadian government has threatened a possible retaliatory strike against U.S. imports, and is hoping Mexico will join it.”

I called Wyatt  Prescott from Idaho Cattleman’s Association and asked him about country of origin labeling or COOL: “The big COOL dispute that has come across, originally they filed a suit and the WTO had agreed that mandatory COOL labeling is a violation of NAFTA. What the Mexicans and Canadians are showing is that there is harm being done to their trade because of this mandatory label.