Dusty Johnson: “If I may ask a question of my colleague and my friend from North Dakota, does it not seem to the Senator that part of…”

“If I may ask a question of my colleague and my friend from North Dakota, does it not seem to the Senator that part of the reason we have lost essentially our entire export market for beef in America is in part because even countries that want to buy American beef, that understand we have the safest, highest quality beef in the world, are not confident that we are, in fact, selling them American beef? Their fear is that this may be Canadian, it may be Mexican, it may be Argentine. Who knows where this beef comes from in the United States because we are one of the few industrialized democracies in the world that do not have country-of-origin labeling in place for meat. That undermines the integrity of our sales abroad and further complicates our recapture of these lost export markets. Does the Senator see that as one of the contributing factors to our loss of export market?”