The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Package labels on fresh cuts of meat that identify where animals were born, raised and slaughtered face an uncertain future after successful trade challenges from Canada and Mexico.
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says the U.S. is running out of options for the meat labels, which are required under a 2008 law. A label might say, for example, that the animal was "born in Canada, raised and slaughtered in the United States" or "born, raised and slaughtered in the United States."
The World Trade Organization has agreed more than once with Canada and Mexico. . .