Where’s the beef from? For now, it remains a mystery.
A federal judge in Spokane this week dismissed a lawsuit filed by domestic livestock producers to reinstate country-of-origin labeling on beef and pork products. The U.S. Department of Agriculture halted such labeling in 2016.
U.S. District Court Judge Rosanna Malouf Peterson agreed with the producers in her Tuesday dismissal that the USDA decision has caused them financial harm. But she ultimately sided with the government, saying that the legal clock had run out for the producers to challenge the underlying 1989 federal law, and that the U.S. Congress had clearly intended to have the labeling end.
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