Americans Agree: Label the Food Now! |
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A Reuters article appearing in Scientific American reports that Americans overwhelmingly support stricter labeling of the origin of the foods sold in the U.S. A stunning 92% want to know which country produced the food they are buying according to a poll undertaken by Consumer Reports.
"I was definitely shocked at how high these numbers were," said the study's co-author Dr. Urvashi Rangan, a senior scientist and policy analyst at Consumers Union, the nonprofit organization that publishes Consumer Reports magazine.
Meanwhile, a report in USA Today indicates that it's not so easy to buy American when it comes to food. Here's an excerpt:
...it's becoming a chore for more and more Americans. With a steady diet of news about contaminated products coming from China and elsewhere, and the spread of a consumer movement to buy locally produced foods, people are paying more attention to the source of their food...manufacturers resist explicit labeling because they fear consumers' reaction if they know how far some of their food has come.
To read the Reuters report cited above as it appeared in Scientific American go to: Americans support use of meat-origin labeling: poll
To read the USA Today report on the difficulty of purchasing food produced in the U.S. go to: Buying American? It's not in the bag
To purchase premium cuts of meat you can be absolutely certain were produced in the U.S. click on any of the following:
Organic Red Angus New York Strip Steaks
Organic Red Angus Rib Eye Steaks
