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Posted: 5:59 AM Oct 25, 2006
Senator Kohl and Secretary of Agriculture meet in Eau Claire
Senator Kohl and Secretary of Agriculture Nilsestuen will meet Wednesday to discuss the Federal Meat Inspection Program.
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U.S. Senator Herb Kohl and Wisconsin Secretary of Agriculture Rod Nilsestuen will meet in Eau Claire Wednesday to talk about the Federal Meat Inspection Program.
Kohl is the sponsor of Bi-Partisan Legislation to overturn a nearly 30-year ban on the interstate shipment of state inspected meat and poultry products.
Lifting the ban would allow producers and processors who use state inspected plants to sell their products outside Wisconsin. Which is home to more state-inspected meat plants than any other state in the nation.
Earlier this year Kohl urged the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture to abandon plans for a drastic cut in funding for state meat inspection programs, which threatened nearly $240-thousand dollars for Wisconsin’s program this year.
Kohl and Nilsestuen will speak at 2:30 this afternoon at Maloney’s Baloney on east Hamilton Plaza.
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