coppertop posted Dec 27, 2006 11:15
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sorry, I meant to say many posh US restaurants advertised Alberta Beef on their menus
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coppertop-- It must have been in a very few restaurants and in times past-- because I have searched high and low on the internet and in print media, and can find nowhere that a Canadian beef product is being sold as such in the US or advertised at a US restaurant/retail store...Lot more US origin, and US ranch sourced, or US grassfed and organic showing up- but no Canuck branded...
Most Canuck beef has no identity anymore- unless its in the rural areas or with the organic and consumer safety folks and then its identified with "BSE"...
Even the local butcher has told me the reason he "voluntarily" won't mark Canadian beef as such is because then he won't be able to compete with the other stores that still pass it off with the USDA stamp as US Beef...Which means in this area its identified as an "inferior" product...
Thats the reason we need the M-COOL law- so that ALL Packers/Retailers must truthfully tell the consumer where the product is coming from...
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sorry, I meant to say many posh US restaurants advertised Alberta Beef on their menus
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coppertop-- It must have been in a very few restaurants and in times past-- because I have searched high and low on the internet and in print media, and can find nowhere that a Canadian beef product is being sold as such in the US or advertised at a US restaurant/retail store...Lot more US origin, and US ranch sourced, or US grassfed and organic showing up- but no Canuck branded...
Most Canuck beef has no identity anymore- unless its in the rural areas or with the organic and consumer safety folks and then its identified with "BSE"...
Even the local butcher has told me the reason he "voluntarily" won't mark Canadian beef as such is because then he won't be able to compete with the other stores that still pass it off with the USDA stamp as US Beef...Which means in this area its identified as an "inferior" product...
Thats the reason we need the M-COOL law- so that ALL Packers/Retailers must truthfully tell the consumer where the product is coming from...
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