I wonder, is this a result of the trade war, or because the US Administration cut all the quality assurance, health and safety regulations and personnel? I mean, would you import food that could be spoiled, contaminated with bacteria from handling, cross contaminated with allergens, or padded out with inedibles like nanoplastics, sand or styrofoam? I mean, there are a lot more reasons than just tariffs to avooid buying US farm products right now.
I mean beef and poultry are dealing with bird flu and I’m not sure what the FDA is currently doing to combat that.
Essential oils, and prayer
There is a very low risk of getting H5N1 by eating the meat of infected cows or chickens, provided that meat has been properly cooked. The heat of cooking destroys the virus before it gets near us. However, you may have noticed that the prevalence of salmonella, e.coli and listeria infections has already been rising in the USA due to contamination of fresh produce that has, theoretically, been through the proper protocols for consumption. Now imagine just how much more salmonella, e.coli and listeria there will be on produce without the inspections and regulations that existed this time last year. Remember Typhoid Mary? She killed between 5 and 50 people (records were not well kept in the early 20th century) simply by being an asymptomatic carrier of disease in an era when kitchen staff not only did not wear protective clothing, but did not wash their hands between tasks. This is the kind of unregulated, untested food growing, harvest, processing and shipping the USA will face again, and several countries are setting up regulations will prevent American food from entering as a result.
Only one thing is certain: common USAnians won’t see a price decrease for meat :)
The logical reaction is, that they will! The sad truth is that they probably won’t be able to afford it anyway
I’m not American so don’t care much but I saw an article where they wrote that meat production in the US is declining and young cattle comes mostly(or at least a significant percentage) from Mexico and slaughterhouses are in Canada.
