Foreign imports are gutting U.S. ranching. The American Beef Labeling Act would finally let shoppers choose American beef.
Summer is almost over. Little did you know that many of the hamburgers you grilled this season were imported from Australia, Mexico, and Brazil.
Unless you have cattle herds roaming near your home, your beef either comes from the American Midwest and West or, increasingly, is imported. We have a beef deficit, not because demand is off the charts, but because state and federal government look the other way while global meatpacking giants like JBS, Marfrig, Tyson, and Cargill have monopolistic control over their markets, and because they’re being priced out by imports brought in by these same global meatpackers.
How can we possibly reverse course?
It’s a personal cho