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Anonymous Coward
4/15/2025 11:19 am GMT

In Response To Trump's Trade War Australia Has Just Made A Deal With China For All Their Beef

Meanwhile in many countries imports of U.S beef is forbidden. I wonder why?


NEWS
Europe avoids U.S. beef for a good reason
Staff WriterSarasota Herald-Tribune


Q:Why doesn't the European Union allow imported U.S. beef? -- Jerome T., Scranton, Pennsylvania

A: :Snipped article: What you may not realize is that most mass-produced meat in the United States has been injected with hormones and antibiotics. Imports of U.S. meats are banned by the EU, plus Russia, Australia, Canada, China, Taiwan and most recently Japan.

The FDA-approved hormones used to fatten up livestock (without having to feed them additional food) include recombinant bovine growth hormone, estrogen, testosterone and progesterone! As for the antibiotics (used to let the animals fatten up, not just prevent disease), it's estimated that the non-therapeutic use of antibiotics in livestock production accounts for nearly 80 percent of all antibiotics used in the United States.

Americans are eating, on average, 200 pounds of this meat a year. Think what fattens up the animals might also fatten up YOU?

According to the FDA there's no connection between eating meat raised on growth and sex hormones and the current obesity epidemic, or with the sharp increase of reproductive cancers in the U.S. Since 1950 they're up 55 percent for breast, 100 percent for prostate, and 120 percent for testicular cancer. And they don't see any connection between the 60,000 Americans who die each year from antibiotic-resistant disease and antibiotics used in raising industrialized beef. But a lot of countries aren't buying it.


Looks like Trump is winning?

At destroying th U.S economy.
smiley

Anonymous Coward
4/15/2025 12:06 pm GMT

RE: In Response To Trump's Trade War Australia Has Just Made A Deal With China For All Their Beef

As that^ article states, Australia has banned beef from the US for over two decades due to the health concerns mentioned plus mad cow disease.

Trumps trade war with China means that the Chinese will no longer buy US beef but will get their supply from Australia instead now.

The US still imports hundreds of millions of dollars worth of Australian beef every year.

Thanks for boosting the Aussie economy, dipshit.
smiley

Anonymous Coward
4/15/2025 12:33 pm GMT

RE: In Response To Trump's Trade War Australia Has Just Made A Deal With China For All Their Beef

https://invezz.com/news/2025/04/08/how-australia-is-gaining-advantage-in-beef-market-amid-us-china-trade-war/

Anonymous Coward
4/15/2025 1:48 pm GMT

RE: In Response To Trump's Trade War Australia Has Just Made A Deal With China For All Their Beef

Yeah nobody wants your chemical laden food. Much of it's banned here in the UK thankfully.

Everyone should just stop trading with the US, cut the losses and until Americans learn to behave like civilised human beings, don't let them sit at the grownups table.