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Good for agribusiness interests, but greater demand means even higher meat prices in the US. And now we will need even more illegals to work the feedlots, slaugherhouses, and meat packing plants.
The European Commission earlier said any beef deal will not increase overall beef imports and that all beef coming in would have to be hormone-free to respect EU food safety regulations. Any deal would have to be approved by the European Parliament.
This is good news.
I have a question though. So the deal is no hormones in the beef. That would require ranchers to have been anticipating this and have existing inventory have no hormones...do you think that happened?
And -- if not -- how long before they can get hormone free beef to the EU in numbers significant enough to make a difference in international trade.
Good for agribusiness interests, but greater demand means even higher meat prices in the US. And now we will need even more illegals to work the feedlots, slaugherhouses, and meat packing plants.
Good point -- even if we use beef with hormones -- the added cost for the ranchers will be passed on to everyone right?
There is plenty of hormone free beef because more people are demanding it. I've been buying it for years and have noticed more choices. Same with poultry. Same with uncured bacon. Never used to see that before in supermarkets. There used to be hormones in milk but no more. The law of supply and demand.
There is your transition market, farmers. Get some cows, and turn them loose on those soybean crops China isn't buying.
Agree with Waldo, Trump is negotiating and doing business, not "Kowtowing" to other countries that we also happen to buy much more stuff from, than they buy from us.
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