Wyatt on COOL

A candid talk about the COOL regulations with Executive Director of the Idaho cattle Association, Wyatt Prescott. "Here is a statement by Bob Stallman, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation: Americans prefer to buy food products that they know were grown and raised by America's farmers and ranchers and AFBF supports a country of origin labeling program that conforms to appropriate parameters and meets WTO requirements. You had in your newsletter, Senators stand against COOL. What is the position of ICA? We support voluntary country of origin labeling. The challenge that we have is the mandatory component. Interestingly, country of origin labeling has been at the forefront for a number of years. But since prices have been extremely beneficial it has been shifted to the back burner. The major challenge with country of origin labeling includes the processing of animals and requiring that country of origin labeling on animals that are processed that are not domestic. They have to be processed in the a separate, cleaned chain of processing from the domestic animals.