R-CALF issues priorities for next administration, calls for return of COOL

R-CALF USA, representing U.S. cattle producers, wants the next president to reinstate mandatory country-of-origin labeling even though that policy was determined to be non-compliant with WTO rules in 2015. COOL, the statutory basis of which is found in the 2008 Farm Bill, requires retailers to label products with information on the source of certain foods; COOL for certain meats was the focal point of a WTO dispute brought by Canada and Mexico that the U.S. ultimately lost in 2015. That...