Country-of-Origin meat labeling will not be making a comeback under a Trump administration.
Politico reports that Trump’s Agriculture Advisory Committee was 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.
Leaked portions of Trump’s plan for his first 100 days in office highlighted a provision to potentially include COOL in a renegotiation of NAFTA.
Farm groups from Canada threatened trade retaliation if COOL in the U.S. were to be reinstated.
But a spokesperson for Trump’s Agriculture Advisory Committee said no one knows how COOL got into the plan, adding COOL is “dead as a doornail.”
