Earlier this week, a pair of U.S. cattle organizations expressed concern at the U.S. allowing the resumption of imports of fresh beef from Brazil. Now you can add the African country of Namibia to the list of foot and mouth disease concerns with imported beef. That’s according to R-CALF CEO Bill Bullard who says letting meat in from both of those countries is a very troubling development.
He says there are problems with the so called safeguards both Namibia and Brazil say they’ve installed to prevent FMD.
Bullard says the possible impacts of letting that beef into the U.S. puts the U.S. cattle herd at risk even according to USDA’s own analysis.
Bullard says its apparent politics is driving the move by the USDA to allow that fresh beef in. He says it follows the policy of open borders and free trade at the expense of the well being of the domestic cattle industry in the United States.
