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PROPOSED U.S. food labelling laws threaten to kick Manitoba livestock producers while they're already down, Premier Gary Doer said Wednesday, and he promised to lobby U.S. politicians to ease their potentially devastating effects.
According to federal government figures, Manitoba sold 4.1 million weanling pigs -- usually marketed at five-kilogram or 23-kg weights -- to the United States in 2006. For the first half of 2007, weanling exports to the United States totalled 2.2 million pigs. Manitoba producers also shipped 1.3 million market weight hogs (ready for slaughter) to the United States in 2006, plus 741,000 in the first half of last year."Is the pig Canadian or American? If it's born here and raised in the United States, what is it? It's a little bit of both," the premier told reporters afterwards.See the full content of this document
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U.S. Food Labelling Could Hurt Hog Farmers
By Larry Kusch
PROPOSED U.S. food labelling laws threaten to kick Manitoba livestock producers while they're already down, Premier Gary Doer said Wednesday, and...See the full content of this document
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