The impetus for MCOOL came from northern plains beef producers as far back as the mid\u20131990s. The stated idea was that U.S. consumers deserve full information about the foods that they purchase and eat\u2014an idea that is difficult to argue with. The underlying concerns, however, were growing imports of beef, pork, cattle and hogs from Canada and their perceived negative impact on U.S. markets. MCOOL is far less onerous for the pork industry than for the beef industry
\nfor several reasons. First, Canada is the only source of imported pigs and market hogs. No hogs are presently
\nimported from Mexico due to animal disease restrictions. Second, all\u2013in all\u2013out production systems
\nkeep pigs in defined, closed groups from early in life until slaughter in order to prevent the introduction of
\ndisease. There is little or no comingling of animals as there is in the beef industry. This means that the origin
\nof an individual animal is the same as the origin of its group. Whether U.S. pig production increases
\ndepends on the ultimate reaction of consumers, primarily to the multicountry labels. U.S. consumers
\nhave a very positive view of things Canadian, though, so the negative impact may be small and will almost
\ncertainly be smaller than consumers\u2019 reactions to the presence of other countries such as Mexico, Brazil and
\nUruguay on beef labels. If consumer reaction is not negative, Canada will continue to supply weaner and feeder pigs to U.S. feeders depending primarily on the exchange rate between the two countries\u2019 currencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The impetus for MCOOL came from northern plains beef producers as far back as the mid\u20131990s. The stated idea was that U.S. consumers deserve full information about the foods that they purchase and eat\u2014an idea that is difficult to argue with. The underlying concerns, however, were growing imports of beef, pork, cattle and hogs from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[8882,640,16845,189,7045,2519,60,286,4027,6904,46,1293,19043,15378,4178,20007,6373,7046,10858,6375,27186,1859,14,1635,33,16262,1324,2608,17743,27282,76,20911],"class_list":["post-4922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-al","tag-animal","tag-close","tag-consumer","tag-consumer-reaction","tag-cool","tag-disease","tag-dust","tag-effects","tag-fee","tag-feed","tag-feeder","tag-feeder-pigs","tag-feeder-weaner","tag-feeders","tag-gh","tag-labels","tag-mandatory-country-of-origin-labeling","tag-mark","tag-mcool","tag-mcool-duties","tag-mexico","tag-pig","tag-pig-production","tag-pigs","tag-pl","tag-pork","tag-pork-industry","tag-prod","tag-production","tag-slaughter","tag-t"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}