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November 13, 2013<\/p>\n
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Contact: NCL Communications, Ben Klein, (202) 835-3323, benk@nclnet.org<\/p>\n
Washington, D.C.- Today, the National Consumers League (NCL), along with the Consumer Federation of America, Consumers Union, Food & Water Watch and Public Citizen, are calling on the Representatives and Senators responsible for finalizing the Farm Bill to dissuade them from changing the current U.S. country-of-origin labeling (COOL) law.\u00a0 The current COOL law, put in place by the 2008 Farm Bill, covers a variety of foods ranging from meat and poultry to fish, vegetables, and many nuts.\u00a0 Advocates argue that country-of-origin labeling is popular among consumers who are interested in knowing from where their foods are coming.<\/p>\n
\u201cCountry-of-origin Labeling empowers consumers through education and supports American cattlemen and businesses owners,\u201d said Sally Greenberg, Executive Director of NCL.\u00a0 \u201cRepealing or weakening this broadly supported law would be damaging to consumer\u2019s purchasing rights. We, along with our fellow consumer groups, hope members of Congress keep in mind the broad support of this protective law when deliberating the Farm Bill.\u201d<\/p>\n
To read the full letter, click here (PDF)<\/a>.<\/p>\n ###<\/p>\n About the National Consumers League<\/strong><\/p>\n The National Consumers League, founded in 1899, is America’s pioneer consumer organization. Our mission is to protect and promote social and economic justice for consumers and workers in the United States and abroad. For more information, visit www.nclnet.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" November 13, 2013 Contact: NCL Communications, Ben Klein, (202) 835-3323, benk@nclnet.org Washington, D.C.- Today, the National Consumers League (NCL), along with the Consumer Federation of America, Consumers Union, Food & […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1676"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17931,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676\/revisions\/17931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}