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Tyson Ends Purchases of Canadian Cattle for Their US Processing Plants- Blames mCOOL
Thu, 24 Oct 2013 08:54:47 CDT
Because of the revised Country of Origin Rule that was put into place in May of this year, Tyson Foods has made the decision not to purchase cattle fed in Canada to slaughter in their US processing plants. Public Relations Manager Worth Sparkman with Tyson Foods at their northwest Arkansas headquarters has provided us with the following statement:
"Like many others in the North American beef industry, we're very disappointed by the changes made in the U.S. country of origin labeling rules. These new rules significantly increase costs because they require additional product codes, production breaks and product segregation, including a separate category for cattle shipped directly from Canada to U.S. beef plants without providing any incremental value to our customers. Unfortunately, we don't have enough warehousing capacity to accommodate the proliferation of products requiring different types of labels due to this regulation.
"As result, we have discontinued buying cattle shipped to our U.S. beef plants directly from Canada, effective mid-October, but will continue to seek alternatives that will allow us to resume importing cattle directly from Canada. We are continuing to buy Canadian-born cattle that are finished for market at U.S. feedlots. We remain hopeful that these new rules will eventually be rescinded and we'll be able to resume buying cattle directly from Canadian cattle feeders."
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