Poll: 92% of Americans support origin lableing

Today MSNBC is reporting about a new poll indicating 92% of
Americans support country-of-origin labeling for meat and other foods. Congress required labeling in the 2002 Farm Bill, but never funded the program and consistently pushed back its implementation date.

The Montana Legislature passed a state country-of-origin labeling law, to be triggered if the federal government failed to enforce the national law. The Schweitzer Administration is still developing rules on the law and it too, has not yet been enforced.

From MSNBC:

WASHINGTON - U.S. consumers overwhelmingly support stricter food labeling laws, with 92 percent of Americans wanting to know which country produced the food they are buying, a consumer magazine said on Tuesday.

Consumer Reports said recent food scares, including worries about peanut butter and lettuce, have made Americans more interested in knowing not only how their food was produced but where it was made.

“I was definitely shocked at how high these numbers were,” aid the study’s coauthor Dr. Urvashi Rangan, a senior scientist and policy analyst at Consumers Union [....]