Holy cow.
If you bite into a burger this Labor Day weekend, it might not be from an American heifer.
That’s because of an 11-year old law from the beef industry — the Country of Origin Labeling law, or COOL — that says retailers don’t have to tell you where its beef is coming from.
And even if a pound of sirloin has a “USA” sticker on its plastic, that still doesn’t mean everything hitting your grill comes from America.
Why?
The USDA says the majority of US beef imports are boneless manufacturing trimmings, tiny bits destined to blend into your ground beef. Packers combine these trimmings to hit a desired lean-to-fat ratio.
This means a package of…
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