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Burns Meets With Producers: “Let’s Fix COOL”
Livestock Groups Sit Down With Burns To Craft Amendment To COOL
Billings, MT – U.S. Senator Conrad Burns (R-Mont.) was joined today by representatives of four Montana Livestock organizations to discuss options for improving and speeding up the implementation of Country Of Origin Labeling (COOL).
“There’s a rumor out there that I voted against COOL,” said Burns. “I was one of the first to bring COOL to the U.S. Senate back in 1999, and I’ve supported it ever since. What we accomplished today, was to bring together the folks that are here raising the animals and get their thoughts on what we can do to make the bill better. I think we took great steps toward that goal. We’re going to keep a dialogue open with these groups to get their thoughts as we move forward, but right now it appears we’re going to move up the mandatory implementation to sometime between June of next year and ... [ more
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