Tell USDA to write strong rules for country-of-origin labeling! Consumers and family farmers and ranchers have been fighting for years to require labeling about where food comes from. Now, after months of headlines about tainted food imports and years of delay by Congress, we are closer to getting country-of-origin labeling for meat and produce. Country-of-origin labeling for seafood has been required since 2005. Mandatory labeling is scheduled to go into effect for red meat and produce in September 2008. Right now, the USDA is starting to write the rules for how the labeling program will work for meat and produce, and asking for comments about the existing rules for seafood. Click here to tell USDA to write rules that cover as much food as possible, by limiting exemptions for "processed" foods, and allowing farmers, ranchers, and fishermen to use common sense record keeping systems to keep costs down - go to: www.fwwatch.org
