Country of Origin Labeling is indeed COOL

Finally.

If you want to know where your food is coming from, you’re in luck.

This week new USDA regulations went into effect requiring grocers and food wholesalers to label beef, pork, lamb, chicken, goat meat, fish and shellfish.

It’s called COOL, short for Country Of Origin Labeling.

Of course, where a product comes from is only part of the story, according to the Sustainable Table, a groovy little Web site with free downloadable pocket guides designed to “make it easy for busy shoppers to decode the growing number of often confusing food labels found in stores.”

ST offers a Glossary of Meat Production Methods and other portable shopping guides as well as an online Sustainable Dictionary, a blog and more.

Now, that’s cool.