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Farmers association demands Congress investigate Trump beef deal ‘betrayal’ (www.newsweek.com)
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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/65781855

Members of Congress are being urged to investigate President Donald Trump’s plan to import hundreds of thousands of metric tons of foreign beef in a bid to lower grocery store costs, amid growing frustration from farm-state lawmakers and the nation’s embattled ranchers at the proposal.

Under the plan, the administration would allow up to 300,000 metric tons of lean beef trimmings into the U.S. tariff-free from a still-unspecified source country for a 90-day period beginning September 1—which Trump said would then be sold “at 25 percent below current market prices."

“Congress needs to have an emergency hearing on this,” John Boyd, founder and president of the National Black Farmers Association, said in response to the proposal, which the president said would “reduce prices for Americans while giving space for our Great American Beef Herd to grow again.”

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[-] churrodestroyer@lemmy.zip 59 points 20 hours ago

You don't have to go full vegan or vegetarian. Reducing beef intake without giving it up is better than nothing. Even swapping to chicken or pork for a meal or two a week will impact your big picture water usage more than you'd think.

[-] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 8 points 4 hours ago

I'm like 80% vegan. Still do bacon and eggs on the weekend and sometimes chicken with dinner. Even if everyone in the U.S. only became 50% vegan it would be pretty huge.

I feel like so many people think it's an "all or nothing" type of thing. Where either you're 100% vegan or you don't even bother with it.

[-] Malica@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 hours ago

My husband eats beef every meal I swear. I've stopped eating it entirely, best I can do.

[-] FollyDolly@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago

Who has beef money nowadays anyway?

[-] Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

You ain't kidding - 2 years ago a huge pot of my 5 meat chili was 140.00 or so to make. I am not going to want to do it this year.

[-] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 hours ago

Ugh now I want to try your 5 meat chili though

[-] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 8 points 17 hours ago

You don’t have to go full vegan or vegetarian.

But it'd be cooler if you did 😎

[-] HorreC@lemmy.world 7 points 18 hours ago

So we can have more datacenters right??

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