Ranchers and Republicans alike have pushed back on the beef plan

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.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    18·
    5 days 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.

    • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      5 days ago

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

    • Dionysus@leminal.space
      6·
      5 days 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?