Where is the beef...from?

Dear Editor,

Where’s the beef…from?

No one wants to be misled, but it is happening every day at your meat counter. “Product of USA” is now gracing your beef and pork labels, even though your beef and pork are quite possibly not from an American farmer or rancher. This loophole in the USDA process which allows this to happen has to stop. We can start reversing this process by correctly informing Montana consumers with accurate Country-of-Origin-Placards at grocery stores.

In 2005 we banded together as Montanans to demand accurate placarding through our state legislature. We developed a whole pr...