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Nancy Young[_7_]

On 7/12/2014 10:59 AM, wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Jul 2014 10:56:59 -0400, Nancy Young
> > wrote:

>>> Do Safeway make sure you know it comes from Australia ? Is there a
>>> sign pointing out this is Australian beef, and another this is US
>>> beef? Sometimes done here if they want to emphasise our own home
>>> grown lamb or beef, but not really for our benefit.
>>
>> They had better, that's the federal I posted.

> That isn't an answer - we have, on the face of it - the same
> regulations but they all get around it.

If the law says the shrimp needs to be labeled, but
they are instead labeling where it was packed, that's
wrong. Obviously.

> I still say, consumers need
> to jump up and down, but they don't over here and personally I have
> become too old for activism.
>
> So are you saying in all US supermarkets, everything is very clearly
> and visibly marked as to its origins ?

Where I live, it is.

nancy