Meat, poultry groups urge USDA to allow public comment on six-year-old rule
A number of U.S. meat and poultry industry groups have sent a letter to the USDA asking for the government agency to allow public comment if it proceeds with certain portions of a controversial livestock and poultry marketing rule originally proposed in 2010 and strongly opposed by meat, poultry, and livestock sectors.
“The opposition expressed six years ago remains as staunch as ever, and we urge the agency to abandon the Proposed Rule because of the significant adverse effect adopting it would have on the meat and poultry industry, particularly the producer community, who will be disproportionately affected,” the groups say, which include the North American Meat Institute, the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, the National Chicken Council, the National Pork Producers Council and the National Turkey Federation .