Tim Johnson: “I think it is easy for us to sit here in a committee room and say that, Well, these military personnel should just…”

And that self-verification is indeed what we do in many other labeling circumstances, whether it is school lunch programs and all kinds of other things, Black Angus, you name it.

If the conditions of our off-reservation facilities were found in the same conditions as many of our reservation facilities, there would be widespread public outrage.

there is a widely held and growing view across much of America that the Department of Agriculture is teaming up with the packers to sandbag country of origin labeling for meat.

It seems to me that it should not be rocket science to figure out a monitoring system.