Booker re-introduces bill to restore country-of-origin labeling requirements

Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) last week re-introduced legislation that would re-establish mandatory country-of-origin labeling requirements for beef and pork and expand the requirements to dairy products. The “ Farm System Reform Act ” includes provisions that would require new COOL requirements to “give family farmers and ranchers a fair shot” against “large, multinational meatpackers,” Booker’s office said in a statement . “U.S.D.A. has continued to allow beef and pork products that are shipped to the U.S. and processed or repackaged...