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.
Soylent green, screwflies, sawdust, all seem equally plausible reasons for the source of this “beef”. I ain’t touching anything that the Turd in Chief is dishing out.
There were two large beef orders - one from Argentina, governed by a Trump ally, and one from Brazil - that were denied by the destination countries (China and Europe) due to health concerns.
And just by chance Trump ‘found’ cheap mystery meat of unknown origin…
Don’t eat it. Perhaps you can try to be vegetarian for a while? I would.
Wow that “took place” in 2022 lol. Kinda weird they might not be that far off soon.