Sheep and Goats 

U.S. Code > Title 7 > Chapter 99 > § 7101 - Findings and declaration of policy

(a) Findings
  Congress finds that - 
    (1) sheep and sheep products are important goods;
    (2) the production of sheep and sheep products play a
  significant role in the economy of the United States in that
  sheep and sheep products are produced throughout the United
  States and used by millions of people throughout the United
  States and foreign countries;
    (3) sheep and sheep products must be high quality, readily
  available, handled properly, and marketed efficiently to ensure
  that consumers have an adequate supply of sheep products;
    (4) the maintenance and expansion of existing markets and
  development of new markets for sheep and sheep products are vital
  to the welfare of sheep producers and persons concerned with
  marketing, using, and producing sheep and sheep products, as well
  as to the general economy of the United States, and necessary to
  ensure the ready availability and efficient marketing of sheep
  and sheep products;
    (5) there exist established State organizations conducting
  sheep and sheep product promotion, research, and industry and
  consumer education programs that are invaluable to the efforts of
  promoting the consumption of sheep and sheep products;
    (6) the cooperative development, financing, and implementation
  of a coordinated national program of sheep and sheep product
  promotion, research, consumer information, education, and
  industry information are necessary to maintain and expand
  existing markets and develop new markets for sheep and sheep
  products; and
    (7) sheep and sheep products move in interstate and foreign
  commerce, and sheep and sheep products that do not move in such
  channels of commerce directly burden or affect interstate
  commerce in sheep and sheep products.
(b) Policy
  It is the policy of Congress that it is in the public interest to
authorize the establishment, through the exercise of the powers
provided in this chapter, of an orderly procedure for developing,
financing (through adequate assessments on sheep and sheep products
produced or imported into the United States), and carrying out an
effective, continuous, coordinated program of promotion, research,
consumer information, education, and industry information designed
to - 
    (1) strengthen the position of the sheep and sheep product
  industry in the marketplace;
    (2) maintain and expand existing domestic and foreign markets
  and uses for sheep and sheep products; and
    (3) develop new markets and uses for sheep and sheep products.
(c) Construction
  Nothing in this chapter provides for the control of production,
or otherwise limits, the right of any person to produce sheep or
sheep products.

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