Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
Tuesday, November 22, 2016
COOL Unlikely to Make a Come-Back After All
The U.S. livestock industry was up in arms late last week when it was reported
that support for country-of-origin labeling (COOL) may be a point of
discussion by the new administration, as part of a renegotiation of the
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). However, an article on Politico this morning states, “COOL will not be making a comeback under a Trump administration, and that's apparently thanks to Trump's Agriculture Advisory Committee. “…They were quick to mobilize and inform Trump's transition team that
such a policy - which has been litigated in both the U.S. court system
and the World Trade Organization - is a non-starter for most farm
groups,” the news report stated...more
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