You can learn more about the effort to make beef packers apply mandatory country-of-origin labeling to their products here. Two pieces of legislation exist in Washington, D.C., that would reinstitute mandatory country-of-origin labeling, Senate Bill 421 and House Resolution 5818. Sheehy believes American beef should be labeled as American beef. The groups also said that mandatory country-of-origin labeling must be included in the farm bill to make meaningful change. “We’ve heard that politicians currently want to put America First, well mandatory country-of-origin labeling does that.