CCA DISAPPOINTED IN COOL CASE Source: CCA The Canadian Cattlemen’s Association (CCA) is disappointed that the U.S. District Court did not grant a preliminary injunction (PI) to block the implementation of the amended U.S. mandatory Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) regulation. The CCA and its coalition partners will be seeking an expedited appeal to U.S. Court of Appeals to overturn this decision. The coalition’s PI motion argued that if the May 23 rule were to be enforced as USDA plans to do in November, it would cause irreparable harm to the U.S. meat and livestock industry and that the impacts are not in the public interest. The CCA is part of a coalition of meat and livestock organizations in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico that filed a lawsuit on July 8 seeking to strike down the USDA May 23 revision to the COOL regulation. As part of that lawsuit the coalition filed the PI motion with the Court to block implementation of the COOL regulation prior to the resolution of the lawsuit. COOL discrimination costs Canadian cattle producers around $640 million per year in losses incurred since COOL was implemented in late 2008. USDA’s May 23 regulatory change is expected to necessitate additional segregation which will nearly double the impact of COOL from the current $25 to $40 per head. cattle.ca
Posted on: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 13:14:37 +0000