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submitted 8 hours ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

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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[-] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 2 points 45 minutes ago

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.

[-] Pofski@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Who did the beef farmers vote for again?

[-] smeenz@lemmy.nz 0 points 52 minutes ago

Well, trump knows a guy, and he's the best beef farmer ever. Folks, can you believe it?

[-] Arancello@aussie.zone 7 points 4 hours ago

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.

[-] RunningTowardTheVoid@lemmy.world 9 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

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

[-] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 hours ago
[-] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 1 points 43 minutes ago

If you told me that ICE were cannibalizing people for this, I wouldn't be surprised.

[-] sns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 60 points 7 hours ago

Argentinian beef was recently turned away from China for being contaminated.

Hmmm......

[-] 800XL@lemmy.world 0 points 1 hour ago

Don't worry, one of his crotch-spawn will start a business with taxpayer money that he used taxpayer money to artificially destroy supply.

[-] JusticeForPorygon 8 points 5 hours ago

Beef recall incoming

[-] TheGoldenGod@lemmy.world 17 points 7 hours ago

I feel like this is going to end like Soylent Green…

[-] tino_408@lemmy.world 32 points 8 hours ago

Argentina and some from Brazil

[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 8 points 8 hours ago

Uruguay exports a lot of meat too, do it could be going front there too

[-] Zier@fedia.io 1 points 3 hours ago
[-] frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 23 points 8 hours ago

Wonder where all those wild horses ended up...

[-] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 hours ago

Or all those people who have disappeared from the concentration camps in florida

[-] Old_Jimmy_Twodicks@sh.itjust.works 15 points 7 hours ago

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?

[-] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

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?

[-] tal@lemmy.today 12 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

...temporarily surge beef imports into the U.S. to ease consumer prices.

In a Truth Social post on Friday, President Trump claimed he had reached a deal to allow up to 300,000 metric tons of meat destined to become ground beef into the U.S. to be sold at reduced prices for the next 90 days without tariffs or quotas. The plan, Trump said, would “substantially lower the price of ground beef for working American families.”

On an entirely-unrelated note, it is 70 days until midterm elections.

[-] Dionysus@leminal.space 4 points 6 hours ago

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?

[-] Malyca@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 hours ago

It can happen from short exposure or long term. Aplastic anemia and leukemia.

[-] Dionysus@leminal.space 3 points 4 hours ago
[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

The worst part of this is that it'll probably actually work knowing how fascinatingly stupid the Republican voterbase is.

[-] lemmyng@lemmy.world 11 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

I made the switch to ground turkey, and I suggest you all do the same unless you want to be an FDA recall statistic.

[-] adespoton@lemmy.ca 9 points 7 hours ago

WHERE’s THE BEEF (from)?

[-] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 19 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

What is tainted Argentinian beef?

For fun: https://youtube.com/shorts/QQz0bMIydco

[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 12 points 8 hours ago

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

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 52 minutes ago

china also banned it for 1 company in argentina i believe, the others they still import.

[-] Major_Tsiom@fedia.io 4 points 7 hours ago

Wellll... it does have some rat in it,

[-] nkat2112@sh.itjust.works 8 points 7 hours ago
[-] funkreddit@lemmy.zip 6 points 8 hours ago

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

[-] FluidBeef@quokk.au 2 points 7 hours ago

I guess The Independent can’t compose simple English sentences as headlines anymore either

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