Your tax dollars at work

"After a seven-year congressional wrangle among trade groups angling for a leg up,

• supermarkets finally deployed country-of-origin labeling across the fresh food departments.

That porterhouse came from Canada, Mexico and the United States.... because the calf came from Mexico, was fattened in Canada and slaughtered in Kansas City." St. Pete Times photo, 4/6/09, 'Steak from 3 countries'