The South Dakota Stockgrowers Association is working with R-CALF to send a petition to the Trump administration asking for a ban on imports of beef from Brazil. The petition is also posted on the We the People Website. Stockgrowers Executive Director Silvia Christen says the ban should remain until all beef sold in the U.S. has a country of origin label.

She says her group has long had a problem with Brazil because they’re not controlling the spread of foot and mouth disease in their country. Christen says corruption there has led to the recent tainted meat scandal.

Christen says the Brazilian beef ban can be implemented by the administration but any reinstatement of Country of Origin Labeling will have to come from Congress.

Recently, Brazil indicted 63 people for their role in a meat corruption scheme within the nation’s Ministry of Agriculture. Under the charges, federal auditors in meat processing plants took bribes in exchange for fraudulent sanitary permits.