Senate sends $100 bil. spending bill to Bush
The Senate on Thursday sent a $100 billion food and farm spending bill to President Bush that includes a two-year delay on labels telling grocery shoppers where their meat comes from.
A separate vote was expected later Thursday on whether big farms should be allowed to continue collecting millions of dollars from the government to subsidize their operations.
Approved on an 81-18 vote, the food and farm spending bill would postpone mandatory meat labeling until 2008. Originally sought by Western ranchers and required by law in 2004, country-of-origin labeling has stalled under pressure from meatpackers and supermarkets who call it a record-keeping nightmare.
Source: Chicago Sun-Times.
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