Country of Origin Labeling and Cattle Prices
Jayson Lusk
Last week, I traveled quite a bit – from Georgia to Montana and back to Oklahoma. In all three locations, I heard a claim that I hadn’t yet heard before. Namely that the low cattle prices we are now observing is a result of the repeal of mandatory country of origin labeling (MCOOL) for meat around the first of this year (note: the repeal came about a result of a series of World Trade Organization rulings against the U.S. policy).
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