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NCBA upset with proposal on beef imports from Brazil, Argentina

Some members of Congress are calling for an investigation into a proposal by USDA to allow importation of fresh and frozen beef and live cattle from regions of Argentina and Brazil known to harbor foot and mouth disease (FMD).

Kristina Butts of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) says they agree with those requests for a General Accounting Office audit of USDA’s proposal.

“Because when you’re talking about an issue like food and mouth disease, one of the most highly contagious diseases that could impact our beef cattle herd here in the United States, then the importation of fresh and frozen beef—and in Argentina’s situation, live cattle—that’s a big concern,” says Butts.

Butts says NCBA supports trade, but it must be based on sound science.

“We have strong concerns on the lack of safeguards that Brazil and Argentina can put in place just to make sure that the disease is not brought into the United States,” she says. “So we’re going to do everything we can to continue to push back against USDA’s proposal.”

 

  • Importation of beef and live cattle into the US from areas in
    countries known to harbour FMD is about the craziest thing
    I have ever heard of from any US Administration. After the
    way your Administration has treated your two major trading
    partners Canada and Mexico on the COOL situation and
    has the audacity to make a suggestion like this needs to have
    their heads thoroughly examined. It appears that they are not
    only want to put the US industry at risk but again bully their
    trading partners by putting their industries at risk. This idea
    had to of come from an area that has legalized POT

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