The Rancher’s Cattlemen’s Action Legal Fund, United Stockgrowers of America (R-CALF), filed suit May 2 in U.S. District Court in Montana, challenging the government’s oversight of the Beef Checkoff Program. R-CALF claims its members 1st
Amendment rights are being denied because they are forced to pay into
Montana’s Beef Council without a voice in its marketing strategy. The national Beef Checkoff Program, which collected more than $80
million in FY 2015, is used unconstitutionally, R-CALF claims, to
promote international beef. In a press release, R-CALF USA says that
while its members must pay into the $1 per head Checkoff program, those
funds are used to convince consumers that beef from R-CALF members’
cattle – raised domestically and in compliance with rigorous standards
concerning safety, treatment and quality – is no different than beef
produced under far less stringent procedures abroad...more
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