Why Australia doesn't import American beef?

Australia has had a ban on uncooked American beef for more than 20 years.

The ban was introduced because the Australian government concluded America had not taken satisfactory steps to address the risk of mad cow disease.

Mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy, is a neurodegenerative disease that is fatal to both humans and cattle.

Humans can contract the disease by eating food contaminated with the brain, spinal cord or digestive tract of infected cows.

The disease is incurable and always fatal.

The most common way the disease is contracted is from eating infected tissue.

In the United States, parts of a cow that are not eaten by humans are often ground into a powder and often used as cattle feed.

This means American cows are sometimes eating the parts of other cattle that could carry mad cow disease.

That then puts those cows at risk of developing the disease, which could then be passed on to humans that eat them.

Tariffs to make hamburgers far more expensive

The Australian meat lobby has expressed their disappointment at Trump's tariff decision.

The Red Meat Advisory Council chair John McKillop said the USA accounted for a third of Australia's red meat exports.

"Australian beef is in an estimated 6 billion hamburgers consumed each year in the US and this tariff will cost the US consumer an additional US$180 billion (A$287 billion) per year," he said.

"Without Australian lean beef blended with local fatty trim, the US would need to use higher value cuts in their burgers and miss out on valuable export opportunities. This in turn optimises value for US ranchers."

The most common way the disease is contracted is from eating infected tissue.

In the United States, parts of a cow that are not eaten by humans are often ground into a powder and often used as cattle feed.

This means American cows are sometimes eating the parts of other cattle that could carry mad cow disease.

That then puts those cows at risk of developing the disease, which could then be passed on to humans that eat them.

Tariffs to make hamburgers far more expensive

The Australian meat lobby has expressed their disappointment at Trump's tariff decision.

The Red Meat Advisory Council chair John McKillop said the USA accounted for a third of Australia's red meat exports.

"Australian beef is in an estimated 6 billion hamburgers consumed each year in the US and this tariff will cost the US consumer an additional US$180 billion (A$287 billion) per year," he said.

"Without Australian lean beef blended with local fatty trim, the US would need to use higher value cuts in their burgers and miss out on valuable export opportunities. This in turn optimises value for US ranchers."

He said the tariffs on Australian red meat would cost American consumers US$600 million (A$958 million).

McKillop noted Australia also exports large quantities of red meat to China, Japan, Korea, the Middle East and North Africa.

Denny

There re enough mad cows in the USA - just see MSNBC and CNN and yu will find them.

But joking aside there is a major problem in the USA and it is tied to food production and selling. That was idenified by doctors wordwide and that is that the US peope eat some dngerous stuff in meals that make the USA te most unhelthy nation in the world. Levels of virtually all kind deceases linked to food eating is found in the USA.

An example is typical - they ahve the highest blood pressue problem workdide and some of he cancers are endemic. They also fucked up Covid treatment totally. In the case of the USA Health is a state service - not a federal one. Over the past 20 yeas a situation of "poisoning" of people got worse, So the Trump administration appointed experts to deal ith that problem nd theyhave alrdy banned some food from being sold,

As to mad cow disease it is not a US probe confind to the USA and there has no recent outbreas anywhere. I suspect the Aussie ban has more to do with protection of Aussie catle farmrs than actual prevention of mad cow disease spreading. Same as Trump now put tariffs on US imports, As the new Secretary of the secretary said himself - the ide is to develop tade treaties that prrotect the interests of both countries involved. I will give you one example, The Biden administration banned cutting down trees as part of the Global Heating program so they import ood from Cnada, the US started import large scale wood from Canada, Bidena lso caused closing down of coal and gas electrciity generation by cosin of electricity plants and thn import electricity from Canada. The obvoius answer is to replace coal and gas plants with nuclear energy plants - bt that is also oppsed by the ultra-leftists and import electricity fom Canada where coal and gas electiricty geeration is sued is in act fritless expenditure,

By the eay the Chinese are building near to 100 new generation plants - and Australia and SA provide the coal used by those plants, I call it claiming that they enhancing the fight against Global warming and then help contrie ho do nt case abou it with coal to breac what in Australia is illegal - but helping the Chinese to do what they pretend it is not the case. After all the Chinese use at least ten times more electricity than the Aussies use,

One in general call that hypocricy.- do what I say and not do wht I do. .