Dear Reader: Where did your last meal come from? Given our globalized food system, this is a difficult question to answer. The question of food origin breaks down into several parts. Do we care where ...

Both these memes pertained to Country of Origin Labeling (COOL), effective in the United States following the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002, and contained a mixture of true, false, ...

On May 12, 2016, the European Parliament renewed its call for mandatory country-of-origin labeling (“COOL”) for meat and dairy products not currently subject to such marking rules. The reasoning ...

When you see a label that states “Product of USA” or “Made in the USA” on a package of meat at the grocery store, you’d be forgiven for assuming the meat inside came from livestock bred in the U.S.