North American ‘pork wars’ continue

Continuing uncertainty about the requirements of US Country of Origin Labelling (COOL), together with a massive increase in the volume of pork exported from the US into Canada, are two of the many issues facing a beleaguered Canadian pork industry, which has seen 20% of its producers wiped out over the past two years. By Bernard Peet For many years Canada had the advantage of being one of the world’s lowest cost producers, which propelled it to the top of the pork export league table less