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It's now harder to find out where your meat was born, raised and slaughtered. After more than a decade of wrangling, Congress repealed a meat labeling law last month that required retailers to include the animal’s country of origin on packages of pork and beef. It's a major victory for the meat industry, which has fought the law in Congress and the courts since the early 2000s. (AP file)

It's now harder to find out where your meat was born, raised and slaughtered. After more than a decade of wrangling, Congress repealed a meat labeling law last month that required retailers to include the animal’s country of origin on packages of pork and beef. It's a major victory for the meat industry, which has fought the law in Congress and the courts since the early 2000s. (AP file)

January 20, 2019

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Do you know where your beef is from?
January 20, 2019 4 a.m.

Do you know where your beef is from?

Let’s start with a question. Where are you sitting right now? Are you reading this newspaper in your office or your home? Now, pick up any object around you. Chances are good that whatever you have in your hand — perhaps food or a coffee mug — it’s labeled “product of” where it was made.