Calls have gone out to support beef producers as Health Canada proposes more negative rules.
The proposed new rules would require ground beef to be sold with a warning label declaring it to be high in saturated fat.
Alberta Beef Producers Chair Melanie Wowk says they are urgently requesting an exemption from the proposed front-of-packaging labelling regulations for ground beef, as a single ingredient whole food.
She says farmers and ranchers in the province are struggling right now.
Wowk – who is from the Hamlet of Beauvallon in the County of Two Hills – says the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association is encouraging producers and supporters of the beef industry to sign up online at DontLabelMyBeef.ca and send a message to Health Canada.
Wowk will join Alberta’s Agriculture, Forestry and Rural Economic Development Minister Nate Horner and Alberta’s Health Minister Jason Copping to respond to Health Canada’s proposed front-of-package (FOP) labelling regulations in Calgary this afternoon (June 13th).
(Audio via Jim Fisher)
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