It’s been a very bad start to 2007 for the US Beef Industry. No only has South Korea, again, rejected imported beef on the grounds that the US can offer no surity that it is BSE free, and that the US, as a whole, is “untrustworthy”. You would think that the USDA would wake up and start providing the proof that our meat is BSE free by TESTING for it!

What’s worse is that, if Korea–a country which eats dogs–isn’t happy about our meats, why are US consumers?

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Secondly, the bad weather on the Great Plains has struck a harsh blow to cattlemen. Freezing weather and deep snows have cut-off herds which are starving and feezing to death. The estimates of loss are staggering and the cries for Nanny Government to help, deafening. It is truely a tragedy both for the suffering animals, and the farmers who seem to always get the short end of the stick. Don’t believe the quotes on how much the meat is worth when thinking of the farmers though–they haven’t lost that much, only the industry. I wish they would provide cost estimates which have a real meaning–how much it has affected the most important piece of the equation–the individual.

If the US wasn’t into such a constant cycle of over-production in this market, occurances like this could be avoided.
Looks like if you enjoy beef it’s time to source it from a local, grass-fed herd managed on a small-scale because the big-boys are going to use the shortage caused by this tragedy to jack the prices sky-high.

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