Trump official refuses to say where foreign beef to lower prices is coming from
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.
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Argentinian beef was recently turned away from China for being contaminated.
Hmmm......
I think it was Brazilian beef
https://sc.group/animal-health-news/china-blocks-argentine-beef-shipment-over-banned-antibiotic-detection-amid-tightened-import-scrutiny/
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/
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).
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
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.
Argentina and some from Brazil
Uruguay exports a lot of meat too, do it could be going front there too
Who did the beef farmers vote for again?
Wonder where all those wild horses ended up...
Or all those people who have disappeared from the concentration camps in florida
Humans taste like pork (generally speaking), and we cannot pass for beef.
Inb4 the mcrib is back
Not before processing.
JPMorganKraftYumBrand have been working on a special seasoning....
So we are going to be soylent green?
Would be funny if someone with credibility started claiming that they eat the cats and dogs
What is tainted Argentinian beef?
For fun: https://youtube.com/shorts/QQz0bMIydco
I feel like this is going to end like Soylent Green…
I ask this in good faith and in earnest search of an honest answer: are you shitting me with that fucken Ringling Bros. ass name?
Honestly, I'm not surprised at all that a good ol' boy farmer from Georgia would have a nickname like that. Dude even looks like I imagined he would.
Compare:
Vincent Mearl "Zippy" Duvall Sr.
Zippy the Pinhead:
Uncanny, ain't it?
"I am having fun" lmao
On an entirely-unrelated note, it is 70 days until midterm elections.
The worst part of this is that it'll probably actually work knowing how fascinatingly stupid the Republican voterbase is.
What's the timeline for the Argentinian beef contamination to cause illness?
Quick enough to impact the midterms, or just to make Walmart and Kroger beef cheap and get everyone sick afterwards?
It can happen from short exposure or long term. Aplastic anemia and leukemia.
Well fuck.
Protein-rich, Prion-rich, sounds all the same to me!
Soylent beef.
If you told me that ICE were cannibalizing people for this, I wouldn't be surprised.
I made the switch to ground turkey, and I suggest you all do the same unless you want to be an FDA recall statistic.
Don't worry, one of his crotch-spawn will start a business with taxpayer money that he used taxpayer money to artificially destroy supply.
Probably not entirely from cows.
Worst it come probably from tinted cow from Argentina which is stuck with a fuck load of beef since it didn’t pass inspection in China
Wellll... it does have some rat in it,
My money is on "ICE detention centers".
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?
It's coming from a country where his family has stock in said companies.
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.
WHERE’s THE BEEF (from)?
Beef recall incoming
We used to be a proper country. Oh wait we weren’t. It’s just a sheer cliff
Save this bad meat for free Big Macs for you know who.
Just like the last time we imported beef after costs ran high, it will do nothing to reduce the prices you see at the grocery store. The American beef industry focuses on different priorities when growing cattle for sale at grocery stores compared to most other countries. The American beef industry focuses primarily on higher end steaks, not lean trim. The imported beef will almost certainly be used elsewhere in industry, with little to no change to the prices you see as a consumer on the types of beef at the store.
Trump land is officially over. Now it gets super heavy for all of us, for no other reason than orange man needs to distract distract distract
Sure as fuck won't be Canada.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/08/11/30000-pounds-beef-argentina-recalled-two-states/
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Okay, but consider how this will lower beef prices
Saddle up!
It makes me a little happy every time news like these pop up. The USA is completely fucked and ut was about time. Their power and influence was nowhere near deserved and it was getting really dangerous for the whole world, like a monkey with a nuclear switch.
Ahem...
https://lemmy.ca/post/69875920
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.
He won't talk about it because it isn't going to end up happening. TACO
It's al roadkill
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I guess The Independent can’t compose simple English sentences as headlines anymore either