Consumers have confidence in America's farmers and ranchers.
This allows them to buy products produced by their fellow Americans and be assured that the products were produced in America. Rigolizzo, a Garden State farmer and American Farm Bureau Federation board member, said surveys show consumers care about the origin of the food they eat. He said current government policy, which allows imported livestock to carry USDA inspection labels when the animals are processed in U.S. packing facilities, is misleading and patently unfair to American producers. Foreign beef is frequently advertised as USDA-inspected meat without mention of whether it is a domestic or imported product. He said despite failed legislative attempts to amend the Federal Meat Inspection Act to require imported product labels, Farm Bureau continues to push the issue.