KEEPING CURRENT

摘要

Last month, U.S. President Barack Obama signed a $1 trillion farm bill into law that sets U.S. agriculture policy for the next five years. Despite intense lobbying by meat industry giants, the law upholds controversial rules that took effect in November requiring imported meat to be sorted and labeled differently than American meat. Previously, catchall labels were required to indicate whether meat was a "product of United States" or "product of United States and Canada." But now, fresh cuts of beef, pork, lamb, poultry, goat, and wild and farm-raised fish and shellfish are subject to country of original labeling (COOL) regulations.