Meat groups are disappointed with a U.S. Court of Appeal’s decision in Washington, D.C. denying a preliminary injunction to stop the Country of Origin Labeling Law. National Cattlemen Beef Association’s Vice President of Government Affairs Colin Woodall says the decision means their challenge of COOL in the courts is ended.
Woodall says their only alternative now is try and stop COOL through the legislative process.
NCBA and the other meat groups had argued that the labels go beyond what Congress intended when it wrote the law and violate First Amendment rights to freedom of speech. The Appeals Court in siding with the lower court however did not see it that way.
