Ranchers and Republicans alike have pushed back on the beef plan
The Trump administration’s beef deal has met with stiff resistance from ranchers and Republicans, who argue that allowing more imports will do little to change the underlying conditions that have sent beef prices spiking, such as low herd sizes because of drought.
"Despite high beef prices in grocery stores, prices paid to farmers and ranchers for their cattle have fallen sharply over the past two months, and beef packing plants are shutting down across the U.S.,” American Farm Bureau Federation President Zippy Duvall said in a statement after the plan was announced.
"Further undercutting a fragile recovery by swamping markets with foreign products and attempting to manipulate prices threatens to wipe out any progress that has been made,” he added.
Conspiracy theory: Russia. The beef came from Russia, CIA director escorted Fort Knox gold in payment on that C17 Galaxy heavy lift Globemaster.
CIA director is a fit guy, hes not even heavy, they will claim they took american motorcade. But did anyone else notice there was a Ford E350 super duty in the convoy? It was full of gold surely.
It’s coming from a country where his family has stock in said companies.
Protein-rich, Prion-rich, sounds all the same to me!
Would be funny if someone with credibility started claiming that they eat the cats and dogs
Who did the beef farmers vote for again?
Sure as fuck won’t be Canada.
Argentinian beef was recently turned away from China for being contaminated.
Hmmm…
I think it was Brazilian beef
The Brazilian beef ban in the EU hasn’t even started yet.
https://www.ifa.ie/farm-sectors/eu-brazilian-beef-poultry-ban-will-proceed-on-sept-3rd/
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Neither, it’s literally Brazilian beef that’s affected (though the import ban is by the EU, so both ends of the comment were somewhat incorrect).
its from Brazil. 100,000 tons of beef mince was rejected by the EU because it tested to contain numerous banned substances deemed dangerous to European citizens. Trump and co think the grey & brown mush is still ok for americans though.
likely ends up in the lowest bidder of food distribution, prison and school lunches.
There’s a really good video linked in one of the other threads that specifies the type of beef being imported(essentially beef sludge used as filler by fast food restaurants) and highlights a couple of other key points.
The two important ones are that Argentina consumes about 70% of its domestically produced beef and would never have this large of a surplus of beef byproduct in a short amount of time AND that the EU is banning Brazilian beef starting September 3rd due to antimicrobial and antibacterial contamination.
So, it’s likely that the fast food industry is getting cheap contaminated filler to keep margins high while the politicians can claim a win for grocery prices coming down - even though that won’t happen.
I’ll link the video if I can find it.
Here’s the video https://youtu.be/FB2scx_UmfI
Okay, but consider how this will lower beef prices
Argentina and some from Brazil
Uruguay exports a lot of meat too, do it could be going front there too
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Save this bad meat for free Big Macs for you know who.
Don’t worry, one of his crotch-spawn will start a business with taxpayer money that he used taxpayer money to artificially destroy supply.
Well, trump knows a guy, and he’s the best beef farmer ever. He knows everything about how to plant beef seeds and line pools. Folks, can you believe it?
