North American Union Invades Butcher Counter

[mrfootball]

Picked up a steak from the grocery store yesterday, it had a "Product of US, Canada, and Mexico" sticker on the package labeling.

One Steak. Three Countries.

FYI...if anyone wants to buy locally, from local farmers there's a great site called Local Harvest

Edited December 10, 2008 by mrfootball

[Heights2Bastrop]

I think the label reflects NAFTA

[memebag]

I bet that meat is fluoridated!

[editor]

I think it's probably just the supermarket making a label too small for the text. It should probably read, "Product of U.S., Canada, or Mexico" because they don't know where each cut of meat is coming from or it's too bothersome to print new labels for all three.

It's like on the back of the orange juice containers it will say something like, "Contains oranges from Florida, Brazil, and other countries."

[sheeats]

I think it's probably just the supermarket making a label too small for the text. It should probably read, "Product of U.S., Canada, or Mexico" because they don't know where each cut of meat is coming from or it's too bothersome to print new labels for all three.

That doesn't make it any less disturbing.

[crunchtastic]

But wait, there's more exciting news in country of origin labeling!

"The recently enacted Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008 (2008 Farm Bill) expands the list of covered commodities to include chicken, goat meat, ginseng, pecans and macadamia nuts."

Mmmm, goat meat.

[IronTiger]

At least its not China.

[RedScare]

My bologna label says "Product of Dow Chemical".

[TJones]

My bologna label says "Product of Dow Chemical".

At least yours came from a reputable company.

[TexasVines]

not exactly what the issue is with this thread....it is the same meat you have been buying for a decade or more only now it has a label on it

as one poster stated it is probably the grocery company either unable at the current time or unwilling to find out exactly what country the cow was in before being butchered

I would doubt it hit all 3 countries, but it easily could have been in two countries and probably not unheard of to be in 3

calf from Canada brought into the USA to graze and then sent to Mexico to the final feed lot and then butchered and the meat sent back....very unlikely, but possible

or calf from Mexico taken to Canada to graze and then finished in Nebraska feed lot and butchered....again unlikely because of the mortality factor in transport and the weight loss and recovery time for weight gain after long transport from Mexico all the way to Canada or vice versa......but two countries is VERY easy for a cow to travel.....born and grazed in Canada and feed lot and butchered in the USA ect.

it has been going on for decades with the exceptions of Canada being closed because of mad cow a few years back and occasional political bickering between the USA and Mexico