Some more good news for Foothills and Canadian beef, pork and chicken producers.
The U.S. House Agriculture Committee met Wednesday morning and overwhelmingly voted to repeal Country of Origin Labelling, or "COOL" legislation.
Colin Woodall, the Vice President of Government Affairs with the National Cattlemen's Beef Association in Washington, D.C. says action on getting rid of "COOL" is coming fast.
"There was actually very little debate. Most of the speeches were in favour of repeal. Only one person spoke in favour of COOL"
Woodall says the final vote was 38-to-6 in favour of repealing the legislation.
Woodall says the next step is to have the issue come up to a full session of Congress, which he says will happen in early June.
He expects it will pass without too much trouble, but says the Senate could be sticky as there's opposition to removing the "COOL" legislation there.
On Monday the World Trade Organization ruled the American's "COOL" legislation was in violation of international trade law.
Source : SteinbachOnline