Karina Jones is a real-life ranch wife in the Nebraska Sandhills and one of the most highly sought-after speakers in the cattle industry nationwide!
It is Fun, Fact Friday right here on Ranch Raised! Beef lovers listen up, this one is for you. We are all looking forward to grilling season. Am I right?!?! I want to empower you as a beef consumer with some information about what you are buying.
While all of us can see the country of origin label on every thing in the store from bananas to our kids underwear, did you know that beef and pork are excluded from country of origin labeling laws.
According to the USDA, the United States imports beef from 20 different countries.
I want to give you some facts about beef labeling. ALL beef in the store has a USDA label on it, no matter where it came from. It also may or may not have a “product of USA” label on it. That too is deceiving. Beef shipped in on a boat from say Brazil can get that sticker as long as it is minimally process in a USDA inspected facility in the US. So it could be re-shrink wrapped any earn a “product of USA” sticker. There are some branded beef lines sold in the grocery store that have a private, voluntary label that is accurate.
American cattle producers and American consumers are ready to stop this deception at the meat counter and implement mandatory country of origin labeling laws on beef! Visit LabelOurBeef.com to learn more about this issue. There is legislation in both the Senate and the House that will reinstate MCOOL, so if this issue is important to you, you need to call your Senators and Congressman to tell them to sign on. All of those details can be found at LabelOurBeef.com!
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Karina ranches with her husband, Marty, and 3 daughters near Broken Bow, NE. She grew up in western NE, with roots also in southwest SD. The cattle industry and raising kids is her passion.
Watching the cattle industry go the path that it has gone, she could no longer sit quietly at home checking cows, fixing fence, and doing all the everyday tasks wondering when some else was going to make it all better. As she became more active and outspoken on industry issues, she was asked to join the R-CALF USA staff in September 2020 as the Checkoff Petition Campaign manager. That position transcended into her current role as full time Field Director for R-CALF USA.
You can hear her almost every Friday on Your Ag Network’s Hot Barn Report that is broadcast on 60 radio stations with coverage in 9 states, where she deep dives into cattle industry issues and highlights R-CALF’s work on industry reforms. Listen to Ranch Raised on a Your Ag Network hometown station or www.youragnetwork.com where she talks about her daily life on the ranch.
Cattle producers are her people. She will meet you at the county fair, at the sale barn, or anywhere the dusty trail leads.
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