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.
Argentina and some from Brazil
Who did the beef farmers vote for again?
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
Zippy Duvall
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?
Would be funny if someone with credibility started claiming that they eat the cats and dogs
What is tainted Argentinian beef?
I made the switch to ground turkey, and I suggest you all do the same unless you want to be an FDA recall statistic.
Protein-rich, Prion-rich, sounds all the same to me!
I feel like this is going to end like Soylent Green…
WHERE’s THE BEEF (from)?
Beef recall incoming
Soylent beef.
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.
It’s coming from a country where his family has stock in said companies.
